Dingle School
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Dingle School is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kingswinford. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1986, covering about 5.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD29054, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29054 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dingle School |
| Address | Sunnymede Road, Brockmoor, Brierley Hill, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 September 1993 |
| First waste input | 5 October 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 5.85 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 390600, 287700 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- The LeysHouseholdInert
- Bryce RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- The Leys TipIndustrialCommercialInert
- Alphasil Works Redevelopment SiteInert
- Dingle SchoolIndustrial
- Moor StreetLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.