Landfill Check

Jacksons Brickworks

SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

Jacksons Brickworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coleshill, Warwickshire. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1990 and 2005, covering about 37.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD23760, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23760
Site nameJacksons Brickworks
AddressCoventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBFI Packington
Licence issued3 August 1982
Licence surrendered31 May 2005
First waste input31 December 1990
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area37.02 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference420600, 282500

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Special:
the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
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.

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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.