Hay Lane
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Hay Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Solihull. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1975 and 1984, covering about 15.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD23743, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23743 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hay Lane |
| Address | Hay Lane, Monkspath, Solihull, West Midlands |
| Site operator | West Midlands Waste Authority |
| Licence holder | Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 21 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 28 February 1975 |
| Last waste input | 8 May 1984 |
| Area | 15.12 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 414800, 277200 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hay Lane Stage No.1IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Monkspath HillWaste types not recorded
- Hay LaneHouseholdCommercial
- Solihull Municipal ClubHousehold
- Widney Manor Road - Browns LaneWaste types not recorded
- Highlands RoadWaste 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.