Mill Street
SpecialIndustrialInert
Mill Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brierley Hill. It received special (hazardous), industrial and inert waste between 1948 and 1984, covering about 3.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD29005, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29005 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Mill Street |
| Address | Mill Street, Brierley Hill, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Marsh and Baxter Limited |
| Licence holder | Round Oak Steel Works Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 7 November 1986 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1948 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 3.99 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 392100, 286700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Level Street MillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land At Rear Of The Old Bush InnWaste types not recorded
- Round Oaks Steel WorksInert
- Delph RoadIndustrial
- Moor StreetLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Blackbrook ValleyIndustrialInert
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.