Rugeley Power Station
Industrial
Rugeley Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rugeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1979 and 1982, covering about 1.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD23303, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23303 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rugeley Power Station |
| Address | Rugeley Road, Rugeley, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board Solihull |
| Licence issued | 6 November 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 June 1982 |
| First waste input | 7 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 1.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 406800, 316400 |
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
- Hawkesyard LaneWaste types not recorded
- Rugeley A and BIndustrial
- Rugeley Ash Storage Lagoons EPR/JP3139SGWaste types not recorded
- Rugeley Ash Storage Lagoons EPR/JP3139SGWaste types not recorded
- Brereton Hill, Near Park FarmHousehold
- Rugeley Power StationWaste 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.