Landfill Check

Bexley Backlands

Inert

Bexley Backlands is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanley, Kent. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1979, covering about 7.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD19813, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19813
Site nameBexley Backlands
AddressBexley, Kent
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderG J Baldwin and Company Limited
Licence issued25 October 1977
Licence surrendered25 October 1979
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input31 December 1979
Area7.26 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent SO
Grid reference549400, 173300

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

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.