Dudley Foundry
Inert
Dudley Foundry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brierley Hill. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1982, covering about 5.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD28983, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28983 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dudley Foundry |
| Address | High Street, Pensnett, Dudley, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Sunbarn Limited |
| Licence holder | Sunbarn Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 June 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 December 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 March 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1982 |
| Area | 5.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 392100, 289000 |
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
- Fenns PoolIndustrialHousehold
- Blewitt StreetWaste types not recorded
- Wallows TipIndustrial
- Holly Hall RoadIndustrial
- Thornleigh Trading EstateHouseholdCommercialInert
- Rear of Pear Tree LaneIndustrial
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.