Playing Field, Wood Lane
Household
Playing Field, Wood Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cannock, Staffordshire. It received household waste between 1955 and 1958, covering about 2.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD23175, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23175 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Playing Field, Wood Lane |
| Address | Off Wood Lane, Littleworth, Cannock, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1955 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1958 |
| Area | 2.61 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 400400, 311800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Landfill Site Off Stafford Lane, Corner of Site No 66Household
- Hednesford Park Landfill Site, South Side of No 32Household
- Landfill Site Off East Cannock RoadWaste types not recorded
- South Of Littleworth RoadHousehold
- Land At Junction Of Cannock Road and Stafford LaneIndustrialInert
- Hednesford ParkHousehold
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.