Sandpit Cottage
Inert
Sandpit Cottage is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. It received inert waste in 1988, covering about 1.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD35001, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35001 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sandpit Cottage |
| Address | Sandpit Cottage, Wood Lane |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr and Mrs M A Chapman |
| Licence issued | 4 May 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 6 June 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1988 |
| Area | 1.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 392400, 274000 |
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
- Cottage Farm, BourneheathIndustrialInert
- Fockbury FarmInert
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.