Poplars East Opencast Coal Site
Commercial
Poplars East Opencast Coal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penkridge, Staffordshire. It received commercial waste between 1969 and 1972, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD32529, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32529 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Poplars East Opencast Coal Site |
| Address | Brewood, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | National Coal Board Opencast Executive |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 22 September 1969 |
| Last waste input | 22 December 1972 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 390100, 309300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Barnfield SandpitsIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Barr FarmInert
- Cresswell FarmHousehold
- Standeford Mill HouseHousehold
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.