Wolverhampton Metal Company
IndustrialInert
Wolverhampton Metal Company is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bilston. It received industrial and inert waste between 1969 and 1987, covering about 5.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD24174, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24174 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wolverhampton Metal Company |
| Address | Strawberry Lane, Off Wolverhampton Road, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wolverhampton Metal |
| Licence issued | 6 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 January 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 5.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 393700, 299700 |
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
- Wolverhampton Metal Limited TipIndustrial
- Bowmans HarbourIndustrialInert
- Bowmans HarbourIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Brockhouse Castings LimitedIndustrial
- Ductile Group Services LimitedLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- New Cross Brickworks TipWaste 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.