Gorse Lane Landfill Site
Waste types not recorded
Gorse Lane Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rugeley, Staffordshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1978 and 2006, covering about 2.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD23298, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23298 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gorse Lane Landfill Site |
| Address | Gorse Lane, Blithbury, Rugeley, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr Whitehouse |
| Licence issued | 6 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 February 2006 |
| First waste input | 6 July 1978 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.05 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 408200, 320600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Blithbury Bank FarmIndustrial
- Lower Newlands FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- N & H Transport - Blackflatts FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Waterworks LaneIndustrial
- Woodhouse FarmWaste types not recorded
- The Wharf Old SiteWaste types not recorded
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.