West Malvern Playing Fields
HouseholdInert
West Malvern Playing Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Great Malvern, Worcestershire. It received household and inert waste in 1899, covering about 0.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD35004, 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 reference | EAHLD35004 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West Malvern Playing Fields |
| Address | Malvern, Worcestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 30 December 1899 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 December 1899 |
| Last waste input | 30 December 1899 |
| Area | 0.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 376300, 247500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Tank QuarryHouseholdCommercial
- Belmont TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Moorlands 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.