Landfill Check

Ocker Hill Lake

Inert

Ocker Hill Lake is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Tipton. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1985, covering about 1.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD23722, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23722
Site nameOcker Hill Lake
AddressOcker Hill Power Station, Tipton, West Midlands
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderSevern Trent Water Authority
Licence issued9 January 1984
Licence surrendered10 April 1985
First waste input31 December 1984
Last waste input10 April 1985
Area1.01 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference398200, 294000

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.

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.