Highfield Sand Quarry
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Highfield Sand Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1945 and 1984, covering about 1.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD30497, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30497 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Highfield Sand Quarry |
| Address | Hoobrook Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire |
| Site operator | Kidderminster Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Hereford and Worcester County Council |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1945 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 1.27 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 383300, 275300 |
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
- Victoria Carpet CoIndustrial
- Rear of Whitehouse LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Chlidema Carpet CompanyIndustrial
- Morris Carpets Company HoobrookLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Woodward Grosvenor LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Wilden LaneIndustrialInert
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.