Doctors Coppice
IndustrialInert
Doctors Coppice is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halesowen. It received industrial and inert waste between 1985 and 1991, covering about 1.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD28046, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28046 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Doctors Coppice |
| Address | Yew Tree Lane, Huntington |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Messrs Bennett and Kennedy |
| Licence issued | 14 March 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 8 June 1985 |
| Last waste input | 10 April 1991 |
| Area | 1.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 397800, 279300 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Holly Hill Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Callowbrook Public Open SpaceHousehold
- Cockhill Lane / Sandstone AvenueIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Whetty Brick and Tile WorksWaste types not recorded
- Quantry Lane, RomsleyHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bent HouseIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.