Shelton Steelworks
Industrial
Shelton Steelworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent. It received industrial waste between 1984 and 2023, covering about 2.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD36127, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36127 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Shelton Steelworks |
| Address | Forge Lane,Etruia,Stoke On Trent,Staffordshire |
| Site operator | STOKE-ON-TRENT REGENERATION LIMITED |
| Licence holder | STOKE-ON-TRENT REGENERATION LIMITED |
| Licence issued | 26 October 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 November 2023 |
| First waste input | 26 October 1984 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | AREA NOT SET |
| Grid reference | 386674, 347857 |
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
- Shelton WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Shelton Steelworks SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Shelton Works/Ex Shelton Steelworks Site, Cobridge GrangeLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Shelton Steelworks SiteWaste types not recorded
- Shelton WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Shelton Steelworks SiteHousehold
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.