Lea Lane, Cookley
Inert
Lea Lane, Cookley is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1990, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD30396, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30396 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lea Lane, Cookley |
| Address | Cookley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cookley Playing Fields Association |
| Licence issued | 27 July 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 384000, 280100 |
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
- Whites Buildings, Bridge Road, CookleyInert
- Caunsall TipHouseholdCommercialInert
- Springfield LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Townsend Works LandfillIndustrial
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.