Holloway Street Quarry
Inert
Holloway Street Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sedgley. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1988, covering about 1.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD28949, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28949 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Holloway Street Quarry |
| Address | Holloway Street, Lower Gornal, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Joseph Harper Limited |
| Licence holder | Joseph Harper Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 July 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1988 |
| Area | 1.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 391800, 291800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Waterfield QuarryIndustrialInert
- Hermit Industries TipIndustrial
- Ruiton StreetIndustrialInert
- Holloway Street Corporation TipHouseholdCommercial
- Holloway StreetWaste types not recorded
- Humphrey StreetHouseholdCommercial
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.