Landfill Check

Gresley - Brownhills Tileries Landfill Site

Industrial

Gresley - Brownhills Tileries Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 2016, covering about 0.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD36025, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD36025
Site nameGresley - Brownhills Tileries Landfill Site
AddressCanal Lane,Tunstall,Stoke On Trent,Staffordshire
Site operatorGresley ( Stoke On Trent ) Ltd
Licence holderGresley ( Stoke On Trent ) Ltd
Licence issued4 May 1977
Licence surrendered1 November 2016
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.19 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNot recorded
Grid reference385806, 350685

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.

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.