Landfill Check

Newman Tipper Tubes Limited

SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial

Newman Tipper Tubes Limited is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darlaston. It received special (hazardous), liquid/sludge and industrial waste between 1948 and 1980, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD21050, 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 referenceEAHLD21050
Site nameNewman Tipper Tubes Limited
AddressHolyhead Road, Wednesbury, West Midlands
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNewman Tipper Tubes Limited
Licence issued6 April 1978
Licence surrendered19 January 1981
First waste input31 December 1948
Last waste input31 December 1980
Area0.2 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference397400, 295400

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.
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.

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.