Red Lion Tip/Red Lion Site
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Red Lion Tip/Red Lion Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rugeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste in 1989, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD23317, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23317 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Red Lion Tip/Red Lion Site |
| Address | Between Old And New Road, Armitage, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Lichfield District Council |
| Licence issued | 21 August 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 November 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 February 1989 |
| Last waste input | 6 June 1989 |
| Area | 0.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 408900, 316000 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Old Brickyard Clay HoleIndustrial
- Old Brickyard Site/Brickyard Clay HoleHousehold
- Landfill Site At Lichfield RoadIndustrial
- Hawkesyard LaneWaste types not recorded
- Rugeley Power StationIndustrial
- Landfill Near Pipe RidwareHousehold
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.