Cradley Road
Industrial
Cradley Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brierley Hill. It received industrial waste between 1976 and 1977, covering about 1.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD23705, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23705 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cradley Road |
| Address | Cradley Road, Cradley Heath, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Area | 1.89 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 394200, 285500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land off Lodge ForgeWaste types not recorded
- Land off Woods Lane and Cradley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Quarry RoadIndustrialInert
- Dudley Wood AvenueHouseholdCommercial
- Hayes LaneIndustrial
- Bromley StreetHouseholdCommercial
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.