Landfill Check

Mole's Foundry

Inert

Mole's Foundry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brierley Hill. It received inert waste between 1945 and 1989, covering about 2.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD29082, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD29082
Site nameMole's Foundry
AddressBott Lane, Lye, Dudley, West Midlands
Site operatorInternational Salvage
Licence holderBrierley Salvage
Licence issued21 June 1978
Licence surrendered19 July 2004
First waste input31 December 1945
Last waste input31 July 1989
Area2.88 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference391900, 284800

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.

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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.