Ash Platt Wood
Inert
Ash Platt Wood is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sevenoaks, Kent. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1985, covering about 3.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD19592, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19592 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ash Platt Wood |
| Address | Ash Platt Wood, Kent |
| Site operator | P Gallagher Contractors Limited |
| Licence holder | P Gallagher Contractors Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 January 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 15 October 1984 |
| Last waste input | 14 January 1985 |
| Area | 3.89 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 550800, 155300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Nursery PlaceInert
- Montreal Sand PitIndustrialInert
- Chipstead LaneInert
- Dry Hill PicnicInert
- Chesterfield DriveWaste types not recorded
- Shoreham LaneHouseholdInert
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.