Brasted Sandpit
Inert
Brasted Sandpit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Westerham, Kent. It received inert waste between 1992 and 2007, covering about 9.94 hectares. Reference EAHLD35724, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35724 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Brasted Sandpit |
| Address | Hight Street, Westerham, Brasted, Kent |
| Site operator | Brasted Sandpit |
| Licence holder | Brasted Sandpit |
| Licence issued | 30 December 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 February 2005 |
| First waste input | 28 February 1992 |
| Last waste input | 1 February 2007 |
| Area | 9.94 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent & E Sussex |
| Grid reference | 546500, 154700 |
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
- Sandy LaneLiquid / sludgeInert
- Hogtrough HillIndustrialInert
- Grays FarmInert
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.