Grey Friars Refuse Tip/Snows Yard
IndustrialInert
Grey Friars Refuse Tip/Snows Yard is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stafford, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1981 and 1991, covering about 0.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD29135, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29135 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Grey Friars Refuse Tip/Snows Yard |
| Address | Grey Friars Business Park, Grey Friars Place, Stafford, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S A Inston and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 January 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 0.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 391700, 323700 |
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
- Grey Friars TipHousehold
- H. Venables LimitedIndustrialInert
- Doxey RoadInert
- North Walls Car ParkInert
- Burley FieldsHousehold
- Rugby Pitch Off Newport RoadInert
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.