Tame Road Landfill Site
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Tame Road Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blackheath. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1976 and 1978, covering about 2.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD23704, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23704 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tame Road Landfill Site |
| Address | Tame Road, Brandhall, Warley, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 19 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1979 |
| First waste input | 6 April 1976 |
| Last waste input | 11 December 1978 |
| Area | 2.85 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 399200, 285700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hurst Park RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Woodnorton Road Landfill SiteIndustrialCommercialInert
- York Road Landfill SiteIndustrialCommercialInert
- Mucklow HillSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Mucklow HillWaste types not recorded
- British Steel Corporation Coombs RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.