Speedwell Road, Hay Mills
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Speedwell Road, Hay Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Solihull. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1948 and 1982, covering about 6.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD23083, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23083 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Speedwell Road, Hay Mills |
| Address | Former Bayliss Brickworks, Speedwell Road, Hay Mills, Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Site operator | City of Birmingham Salvage Department |
| Licence holder | West Midlands County Council |
| Licence issued | 16 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1948 |
| Last waste input | 19 August 1982 |
| Area | 6.47 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 411600, 284700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Newbridge Road / Hob Moor RoadIndustrialInert
- Land In The Vicinity Of Tyseley IncineratorIndustrial
- Newbridge RoadWaste types not recorded
- Clay Lane Cottages Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Former Land Rover Works Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Newbridge Farm Recreation GroundWaste 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.