Waterworks Lane
Industrial
Waterworks Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rugeley, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1980 and 1983, covering about 0.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD23295, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23295 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Waterworks Lane |
| Address | Waterworks Lane, Blithbury, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr L Wallace |
| Licence issued | 15 January 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 0.16 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 407400, 322200 |
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
- Lower Newlands FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- Refuse Tip off Port LaneHousehold
- Blithbury Bank FarmIndustrial
- Gorse Lane 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.