Landfill Check

Hob Lane

IndustrialInert

Hob Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Solihull. It received industrial and inert waste between 1988 and 1991, covering about 1.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD23763, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23763
Site nameHob Lane
AddressHob Lane, Barston, Solihull, West Midlands
Site operatorScaleport Limited
Licence holderScaleport Limited
Licence issued28 March 1988
Licence surrendered26 April 1994
First waste input28 March 1988
Last waste input31 December 1991
Area1.49 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference420300, 277100

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

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.