Sports Ground Off Farnborough Road
HouseholdCommercialInert
Sports Ground Off Farnborough Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royal Sutton Coldfield. It received household, commercial and inert waste until 1971, covering about 14.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD23064, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23064 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sports Ground Off Farnborough Road |
| Address | Farnborough Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Birmingham City Council |
| Licence holder | Birmingham EPU |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1971 |
| Area | 14.54 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 415300, 291200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Cassle Vale TipIndustrialCommercialInert
- Castle Bromwich Waste Treatment SiteIndustrial
- Tameside Drive - Langley Drive Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Forge LaneSpecialIndustrialInert
- Plantsbrook Nature ReserveWaste types not recorded
- Eachelhurst RoadIndustrial
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.