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Historic landfill sites in Sheerness, Kent

The Environment Agency records 4 historic landfill sites in and around Sheerness, Kent. covering roughly 15 hectares in total. The largest is Lappel Bank at 8.65 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to inert waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Sheerness (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Lappel Bank8.65 ha—Inert
Whitehall Farm4.61 ha1993Inert
The Moat0.84 ha—Inert
New Raod0.57 ha—Waste 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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Sheerness?
4 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Sheerness town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Sheerness?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.