Land Rear of Birmingham Battery
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Land Rear of Birmingham Battery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Birmingham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1967 and 1974, covering about 2.92 hectares. Reference EAHLD23093, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23093 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Rear of Birmingham Battery |
| Address | Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Birmingham EPU |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Area | 2.92 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 404200, 283000 |
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
- Land R/o Birmingham Battery (Wimpey Tip)IndustrialHouseholdInert
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.