Hardy's Industrial Estate
SpecialIndustrial
Hardy's Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Aldridge. It received special (hazardous) and industrial waste from 1974, covering about 1.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD18253, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18253 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hardy's Industrial Estate |
| Address | Off Brickyard Road, Aldridge, Walsall, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 12 November 1974 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 404800, 301900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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
- Beddow's Mark HoleWaste types not recorded
- MitcoSpecialLiquid / sludgeHouseholdInert
- Joberns Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Coppice LaneWaste types not recorded
- Mitco BoreholeSpecialLiquid / sludge
- Empire BrickworksSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
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.