Landfill Check

Gawne Lane Landfill Site

IndustrialInert

Gawne Lane Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rowley Regis. It received industrial and inert waste between 1980 and 1981, covering about 8.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD23698, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23698
Site nameGawne Lane Landfill Site
AddressOff Gawne Lane, Old Hill, West Midlands
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderDavid Williams (Croft) Limited
Licence issued16 April 1980
Licence surrendered24 September 1981
First waste input28 February 1980
Last waste input1 February 1981
Area8.62 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference395600, 287600

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

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.