The Alley
HouseholdCommercial
The Alley is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sedgley. It received household and commercial waste until 1967, covering about 3.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD28955, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28955 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Alley |
| Address | Turners Hill Wood, Lower Gornal, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Metropolitan District Council of Dudley |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Area | 3.93 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 390900, 291500 |
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
- Cotwall End ValleyInert
- Cotwall End RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Baggeridge QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land at Baggeridge QuarrySpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ruiton StreetIndustrialInert
- Cotwall End RoadWaste 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.