Moor Street
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Moor Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stourbridge. It received liquid/sludge, industrial, household and commercial waste between 1976 and 1980, covering about 4.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD28999, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28999 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Moor Street |
| Address | Moor Street, Brierley Hill, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 21 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1980 |
| First waste input | 6 April 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 4.94 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 390900, 287300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hawbush LaneHouseholdInert
- Alphasil Works Redevelopment SiteInert
- Dingle SchoolIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bryce RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- The LeysHouseholdInert
- The Leys TipIndustrialCommercialInert
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.