Friar Park Road
IndustrialInert
Friar Park Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Walsall. It received industrial and inert waste between 1986 and 1988, covering about 12.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD23681, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23681 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Friar Park Road |
| Address | Friar Park Water Reclamation Works, Friar Park Road, Friar Park, West Bromwich, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Severn Trent Water Authority |
| Licence issued | 29 July 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 October 1988 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1986 |
| Last waste input | 30 September 1988 |
| Area | 12.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 401100, 295400 |
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
- Friar Park Road Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Carisbrooke RoadIndustrial
- Needwood GroveSpecialIndustrial
- Bustleholme QuarryIndustrialInert
- Land At Hall Green RoadSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- J.H. Lavender and CompanyIndustrialInert
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.