Landfill Check

Mill Lane

IndustrialInert

Mill Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rugeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1984 and 1990, covering about 0.35 hectares. Reference EAHLD29139, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD29139
Site nameMill Lane
AddressMill Lane, Great Haywood, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJ W Hunt
Licence issued5 October 1984
Licence surrendered27 January 1995
First waste input5 October 1984
Last waste input10 September 1990
Area0.35 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference399400, 323000

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

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.