Wood Lane
HouseholdCommercial
Wood Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bloxwich. It received household and commercial waste on dates not recorded, covering about 19.74 hectares. Reference EAHLD18217, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18217 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wood Lane |
| Address | Pelsall North Common, Walsall, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 19.74 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 401500, 304500 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Fishley Lane Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Landfill Site Off Grove LaneWaste types not recorded
- Slacky Lane Landfill SiteLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Goscote Lane - Allens LaneWaste types not recorded
- Goscote Lane / Slacky LaneWaste types not recorded
- Landfill Site North Of Goscote RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.