Benfleet Creek
HouseholdCommercial
Benfleet Creek is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Canvey Island, Essex. It received household and commercial waste between 1949 and 1975, covering about 30.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD00468, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD00468 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Benfleet Creek |
| Address | South Benfleet, Castle Point |
| Site operator | Benfleet Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1949 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Area | 30.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 576300, 186500 |
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
- Jotmans HallIndustrialCommercial
- Benfleet CreekHouseholdCommercial
- Bowers Gifford MarshesIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Fobbing Horse IslandLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.