Landfill Check

Burham Pit

Waste types not recorded

Burham Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Snodland, Kent. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1977, covering about 2.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD35839, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35839
Site nameBurham Pit
AddressAylesford, Eccles, Kent
Site operatorS C A Packaging Limited
Licence holderS C A Packaging Limited
Licence issued24 March 1977
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area2.13 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent & South London
Grid reference571900, 160600

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.