Rush Lane Clay Workings
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Rush Lane Clay Workings is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Fazeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1996 and 1991, covering about 3.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD24109, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24109 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rush Lane Clay Workings |
| Address | Rush Lane, Dosthill, Tamworth, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Adams Waste Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 October 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 August 1991 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1996 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 422100, 299600 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Baggeridge Brick WorksIndustrialInert
- Hockley Quarry No.3IndustrialHousehold
- Hedging Lane Industrial EstateHousehold
- Red Bank QuarryIndustrialInert
- Hockley Quarry No.1IndustrialHousehold
- Tame Valley Alloys LimitedLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.