Landfill Check

Cotwall End Valley

Inert

Cotwall End Valley is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sedgley. It received inert waste between 1976 and 1982, covering about 0.96 hectares. Reference EAHLD28948, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28948
Site nameCotwall End Valley
AddressCotwall End Road, The Straits, Lower Gornal, West Midlands
Site operatorDudley Metropolitan Borough Council
Licence holderMetropolitan District Council of Dudley
Licence issued12 August 1977
Licence surrendered29 January 1993
First waste input25 October 1976
Last waste input1 February 1982
Area0.96 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference390800, 291800

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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.