Square Acre Farm
Inert
Square Acre Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Solihull. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1984, covering about 2.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD23748, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23748 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Square Acre Farm |
| Address | Lady Lane, Earlswood, Solihull, West Midlands |
| Site operator | M Dunleavy |
| Licence holder | M Dunleavy |
| Licence issued | 30 April 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 March 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1984 |
| Area | 2.56 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 411500, 275400 |
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
- Oak MountInert
- Bragg's FarmInert
- Bragg's FarmInert
- Brook FarmInert
- Limekiln LaneInert
- Roarty - Tanworth Lane Farm Landfill SiteWaste 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.