Landfill Check

Townsend Works Landfill

Industrial

Townsend Works Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It received industrial waste between 1978 and 2001, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD34200, October 2025 data revision.

Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD34200
Site nameTownsend Works Landfill
AddressPuxton Lane, Kidderminster, Worcestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCarpets Of Worth Limited
Licence issued2 March 1978
Licence surrendered23 October 2001
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.2 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference382500, 278500

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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.