Bamber Pit
IndustrialInert
Bamber Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanscombe, Kent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1978 and 1989, covering about 1.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD19279, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19279 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bamber Pit |
| Address | Northfleet, Kent |
| Site operator | Blue Circle Industries Plc |
| Licence holder | DRG |
| Licence issued | 30 November 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 June 1993 |
| First waste input | 5 April 1978 |
| Last waste input | 30 December 1989 |
| Area | 1.43 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 560800, 174800 |
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
- Bamber PitIndustrialInert
- Botany RoadSpecialIndustrialInert
- SouthpitIndustrialInert
- Craylands LaneHouseholdCommercialInert
- SouthpitIndustrialInert
- Southfleet PitInert
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.