Round Oaks Steel Works
Inert
Round Oaks Steel Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brierley Hill. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1984, covering about 0.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD29006, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29006 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Round Oaks Steel Works |
| Address | Merry Hill, Brierley Hill, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Round Oaks Steel Works Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 7 November 1984 |
| First waste input | 1 June 1979 |
| Last waste input | 7 November 1984 |
| Area | 0.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 392700, 286600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Level Street MillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Mill StreetSpecialIndustrialInert
- Land At Rear Of The Old Bush InnWaste types not recorded
- Quarry RoadIndustrialInert
- Blackbrook ValleyIndustrialInert
- British Industrial Plastics limitedLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.