Land Rear of Freight Rover Works
HouseholdCommercialInert
Land Rear of Freight Rover Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royal Sutton Coldfield. It received household, commercial and inert waste until 1950, covering about 3.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD23111, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23111 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Rear of Freight Rover Works |
| Address | Drews Lane, Washwood Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Birmingham EPU |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Area | 3.27 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 411200, 289400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bromford Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Nechells Substation Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Stechford Hall Park Landfill SiteHousehold
- Former Nocks Brickworks Landfill SiteIndustrialHousehold
- Holly LaneWaste types not recorded
- Batchelors Farm Recreation GroundIndustrialInert
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.