West Boulevard / Selcroft Avenue
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West Boulevard / Selcroft Avenue is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Smethwick. It received industrial and household waste between 1904 and 1970, covering about 2.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD23088, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23088 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West Boulevard / Selcroft Avenue |
| Address | Selcroft Avenue/West Boulevard, Harborne, Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Birmingham EPU |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1904 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Area | 2.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 401400, 284200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- West Boulevard Landfill SiteInert
- Hillcrest School Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Barnes HillHouseholdInert
- Bames Hill TipWaste types not recorded
- Land South of Stonehouse LaneWaste types not recorded
- Ludstone Road Landfill SiteCommercial
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.