Landfill Check

Reservoir

Industrial

Reservoir is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Madeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste from 1982, covering about 2.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD23394, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23394
Site nameReservoir
AddressFairgreen Road, Baldwins Gate, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1982
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area2.44 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference379700, 340100

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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.