Stowheath Lane Open Space
HouseholdCommercial
Stowheath Lane Open Space is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bilston. It received household and commercial waste between 1960 and 1962, covering about 7.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD24136, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24136 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stowheath Lane Open Space |
| Address | Stowheath Lane, Stowlawn, Wolverhampton, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Wolverhampton County Borough |
| Licence holder | Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1962 |
| Area | 7.25 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 394100, 297900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Moseley Road TipHouseholdInert
- Deansfield SchoolIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Neachells Lane Open SpaceLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Neachells Lane No.2HouseholdCommercial
- Monmore Green StadiumWaste types not recorded
- St.Leonards SchoolWaste 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.