Donnington Wood Land Reclaimation
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Donnington Wood Land Reclaimation is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1967 and 1978, covering about 4.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD24277, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24277 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Donnington Wood Land Reclaimation |
| Address | Donnington Land Reclaimation, Granville Road, Donnington, Telford |
| Site operator | Wellington Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Shropshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 November 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1978 |
| Area | 4.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 371700, 312500 |
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
- Donnington Land Reclaimation/Donnington 1 Land Reclaimation, Donnington WoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Rural District Council TipIndustrialCommercial
- Donnington WoodHousehold
- Freehold Pit Mound, MuxtonWaste types not recorded
- Old Donnington BrickworksHouseholdCommercial
- Rookery Road, St GeorgesHousehold
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.