Halesfield West
IndustrialInert
Halesfield West is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial and inert waste between 1946 and 1982, covering about 1.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD24334, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24334 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Halesfield West |
| Address | Brignorth Road, Tweedale |
| Site operator | Telford Development Corporation |
| Licence holder | Telford development Corporation |
| Licence issued | 7 February 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 April 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1946 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1982 |
| Area | 1.16 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 370000, 305300 |
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.
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- Refuse Tip, Tweedale, Land At Tweedale, Caravan ParkWaste types not recorded
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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.