Dagenham Slag Bank
IndustrialInert
Dagenham Slag Bank is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dartford, Kent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1981 and 1984, covering about 1.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD11425, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11425 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dagenham Slag Bank |
| Address | Ford Slag Bank |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Ford Motor Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 August 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 October 1981 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 25 September 1984 |
| Area | 1.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 549600, 182100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Dagenham DockSpecialIndustrial
- Ex-City of London SiteHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ford Motor Company, MudlandsInert
- Thames Cooling PondsInert
- Ford Motor Company Settling LagoonsWaste types not recorded
- Manor WayWaste 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.