Playing Fields
Household
Playing Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burntwood, Staffordshire. It received household waste between 1956 and 1962, covering about 1.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD23189, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23189 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Playing Fields |
| Address | Williamson Avenue, Prospect Village, Cannock, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1956 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1962 |
| Area | 1.41 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 403200, 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
- 3 Sites off Cannock Wood Road - New Hayes Road LandfillIndustrialHousehold
- Northside of Sevens RoadIndustrialHousehold
- Near to New Inn, New Hayes Road Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Cannock Wood Street Landfill, 2 Site Cannock Wood RoadWaste types not recorded
- Landfill Site Adjacent To Cannock Wood StreetWaste types not recorded
- Landfill Site Off Cumberledge HillWaste types not recorded
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.