Coleshill Water Reclamation Works
Liquid / sludgeInert
Coleshill Water Reclamation Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coleshill, Warwickshire. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste from 1983, covering about 9.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD28469, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28469 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coleshill Water Reclamation Works |
| Address | Lichfield Road, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Severn Trent Water Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 February 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 10 January 1983 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 9.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 419400, 291400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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- Hams Hall Power StationSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Coleshill Gas WorksIndustrial
- M42 Water OrtonInert
- Trajan HillWaste types not recorded
- Hams Hall Power StationHouseholdCommercial
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.