Darenth River Ballast Pit
Waste types not recorded
Darenth River Ballast Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sevenoaks, Kent. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1972, covering about 4.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD32128, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32128 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Darenth River Ballast Pit |
| Address | Sundridge, Kent |
| Site operator | George Sands and Company Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 15 May 1972 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 549500, 156200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- John BattamsWaste types not recorded
- Sundridge Great PitInert
- Chipstead LaneInert
- Nursery PlaceInert
- Dry Hill PicnicInert
- Chesterfield DriveWaste 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.