Elm Tree Farm
Industrial
Elm Tree Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Grays, Thurrock. It received industrial waste between 1982 and 1987, covering about 10.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD01632, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01632 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Elm Tree Farm |
| Address | Elm Tree Farm, Buckles Lane, South Ockendon |
| Site operator | Olley South Ockendon Limited |
| Licence holder | Olley South Ockendon Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 August 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 3 August 1982 |
| Last waste input | 19 September 1987 |
| Area | 10.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 559300, 181300 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Buckles CampIndustrialCommercial
- North of Buckles LaneWaste types not recorded
- South of Mollards LaneInert
- Mollands LaneInert
- Hill FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Middle FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.