West Midlands Gas
SpecialHouseholdCommercialInert
West Midlands Gas is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wolverhampton. It received special (hazardous), household, commercial and inert waste between 1978 and 1982, covering about 0.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD24127, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24127 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West Midlands Gas |
| Address | Stafford Road, Wolverhampton, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | West Midlands British Gas |
| Licence issued | 16 March 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 November 1982 |
| First waste input | 19 May 1978 |
| Last waste input | 17 November 1982 |
| Area | 0.27 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 391300, 300300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Former Oxley GasworksIndustrialInert
- Gorsebrook Road QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sandy LaneHouseholdCommercial
- Bushbury HillHouseholdCommercial
- New Cross Brickworks TipWaste types not recorded
- Brickheath Road Open SpaceHouseholdCommercial
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.