Rural District Council Tip
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Rural District Council Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1968 and 1972, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD32533, 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 | EAHLD32533 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rural District Council Tip |
| Address | Lodge Road, Donnington, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Wellington Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 April 1968 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1972 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 371700, 312700 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Donnington Wood Land ReclaimationIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Donnington Land Reclaimation/Donnington 1 Land Reclaimation, Donnington WoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Donnington WoodHousehold
- Freehold Pit Mound, MuxtonWaste types not recorded
- Rookery Road, St GeorgesHousehold
- Old Donnington BrickworksHouseholdCommercial
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.