Erith Quarry Landfill Site
CommercialInert
Erith Quarry Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanley, Kent. It received commercial and inert waste between 1960 and 1980, covering about 19.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD11480, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11480 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Erith Quarry Landfill Site |
| Address | Carlton Road, Erith |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cory Sand and Ballast Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 October 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 May 1979 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 19.85 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 550200, 178000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Carlton RoadWaste types not recorded
- Twigg CloseSpecialInert
- Myrtle CloseSpecialIndustrialInert
- Colyers LaneSpecialIndustrialInert
- Chesworth CloseSpecialInert
- Wessex DriveSpecialIndustrialInert
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.