Old Bell Farm
IndustrialInert
Old Bell Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1992 and 1993, covering about 0.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD27960, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27960 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Bell Farm |
| Address | Pumphouse Lane, Hanbury, Worcestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | M Banham |
| Licence issued | 23 March 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 December 1996 |
| First waste input | 27 May 1992 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 0.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 395300, 263900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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.
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.