Forge Lane
SpecialIndustrialInert
Forge Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royal Sutton Coldfield. It received special (hazardous), industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 1978, covering about 1.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD23110, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23110 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Forge Lane |
| Address | Forge Lane, Minworth, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands |
| Site operator | International Alloys Limited |
| Licence holder | J J Gallagher Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 May 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 1.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 414300, 292100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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
- Plantsbrook Nature ReserveWaste types not recorded
- Eachelhurst RoadIndustrial
- Sports Ground Off Farnborough RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Cassle Vale TipIndustrialCommercialInert
- Castle Bromwich Waste Treatment SiteIndustrial
- Tameside Drive - Langley Drive Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.