Former Gas Holder
IndustrialInert
Former Gas Holder is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 1991, covering about 0.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD23954, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23954 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former Gas Holder |
| Address | Lower Bedford Street, Etruria Locks, Stoke on Trent |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Five Towns Demolition Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 August 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 March 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 0.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 387300, 346700 |
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
- Humbert StreetIndustrialInert
- North West Off Regent RoadWaste types not recorded
- St Dominics Car ParkWaste types not recorded
- Shelton WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Tolkien WayHousehold
- Caddicks Marl HoleSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.