Landfill Check

Cottage Farm

Inert

Cottage Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Redditch, Worcestershire. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1987, covering about 0.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD35002, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35002
Site nameCottage Farm
AddressCottage Farm, Gorcott Hill
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderS E Davis and Son Limited
Licence issued6 November 1986
Licence surrendered11 March 1993
First waste input30 November 1986
Last waste input30 October 1987
Area0.17 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Severn MI
Grid reference409500, 268800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.