Landfill Check

Withington Close

IndustrialInert

Withington Close is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Telford, Telford and Wrekin. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 1981, covering about 2.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD24293, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD24293
Site nameWithington Close
AddressWithington Close, Oakengates, Telford, Shropshire
Site operatorTelford Development Corporation
Licence holderTelford Development Corporation
Licence issued7 April 1978
Licence surrendered25 April 1990
First waste input30 April 1978
Last waste input8 October 1981
Area2.64 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference369400, 311400

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.
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.