Fowlchurch Landfill Site/Tip
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Fowlchurch Landfill Site/Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leek, Staffordshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1969 and 1995, covering about 11.84 hectares. Reference EAHLD28852, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28852 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fowlchurch Landfill Site/Tip |
| Address | Fowlchurch Road, Ball Haye Green, Leek, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Leek Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Staffordshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 9 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 4 August 1969 |
| Last waste input | 25 October 1995 |
| Area | 11.84 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 398700, 357400 |
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
- Bode's TipIndustrialInert
- TittesworthWaste types not recorded
- Horsecroft FarmWaste types not recorded
- British Trimmings, Ball Haye RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Land Between Weston Street And Prince StreetWaste types not recorded
- Tittesworth Water Treatment WorksIndustrialInert
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.