Sports Ground
IndustrialInert
Sports Ground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Solihull. It received industrial and inert waste between 1985 and 1990, covering about 1.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD23755, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23755 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sports Ground |
| Address | Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Mercon Construction Limited |
| Licence holder | Mercon Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 November 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1985 |
| Last waste input | 20 February 1990 |
| Area | 1.55 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 417600, 282900 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Low BrookWaste types not recorded
- Hargrave FarmInert
- Castle Hills Farm (Opposite Hargrave Cottages)Waste types not recorded
- Opposite Church FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Glebe FarmInert
- Site Corner Clock LaneWaste 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.