Beckton STW
Liquid / sludgeInert
Beckton STW is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chigwell, Essex. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste between 2000 and 2004, covering about 3.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD12875, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12875 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Beckton STW |
| Address | Jenkins Lane, Barking, Essex |
| Site operator | Thames Water Services Limited |
| Licence holder | Thames Waste Management Limited |
| Licence issued | 30 March 2000 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 February 2004 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.99 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 545300, 181700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Barking ReachWaste types not recorded
- Windsor terraceSpecialInert
- Barking Power StationIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Area 4J and 4K ThamesmeadSpecialInert
- Barking Ash LagoonIndustrial
- Folkestone Road depotWaste 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.