Landfill Check

West Boulevard Landfill Site

Inert

West Boulevard Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Smethwick. It received inert waste between 1966 and 1974, covering about 3.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD23092, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23092
Site nameWest Boulevard Landfill Site
AddressStonehouse Lane/West Boulevard, Weoley Castle, Birmingham, West Midlands
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBirmingham EPU
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1966
Last waste input31 December 1974
Area3.99 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference401500, 283100

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.