Former Vowles Car Park, Church Lane
Inert
Former Vowles Car Park, Church Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near West Bromwich. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 2.95 hectares. Reference EAHLD23680, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23680 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former Vowles Car Park, Church Lane |
| Address | Church Lane, West Bromwich, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 11 October 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 14 April 1989 |
| Area | 2.95 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 400400, 292400 |
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
- Former Vowles FoundryWaste types not recorded
- BlacklakeLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Black Lake Goods YardIndustrialCommercialInert
- Marsh LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Westminster RoadWaste types not recorded
- Walsall Conduits Dial LaneIndustrialInert
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.