Landfill Check

Hopwas Quarry

Waste types not recorded

Hopwas Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Fazeley, Staffordshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1977 and 2015, covering about 24.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD35933, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35933
Site nameHopwas Quarry
AddressKnoxs Grave Lane, Tamworth, Hopwas, Staffordshire
Site operatorR M C Logistics Western Limited
Licence holderR M C Logistics Western Limited
Licence issued1 August 1977
Licence surrendered27 November 2015
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area24.66 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaStaffs Warks and West Mids
Grid reference416251, 304864

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.