Pendeford Industrial Estate, Wobaston Road
SpecialIndustrialInert
Pendeford Industrial Estate, Wobaston Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wolverhampton. It received special (hazardous), industrial and inert waste between 1987 and 1989, covering about 0.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD24122, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24122 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pendeford Industrial Estate, Wobaston Road |
| Address | Wobaston, Pendeford, Wolverhampton, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 23 December 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 December 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Last waste input | 7 September 1989 |
| Area | 0.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 390000, 303300 |
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.
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Coven Heath Water Reclamation WorksLiquid / sludgeInert
- Pendeford Open Space No.1Inert
- Pendeford Open Space No.1Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Coultaulds TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Marston Excelsior LimitedLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Stafford Road LandfillIndustrialInert
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.