Landfill Check

Gore Farm

Inert

Gore Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Gillingham, Medway. It received inert waste between 1987 and 1993, covering about 0.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD19426, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19426
Site nameGore Farm
AddressSwale, Kent
Site operatorG Ward
Licence holderG Ward
Licence issued10 July 1989
Licence surrendered1 March 1993
First waste input1 August 1987
Last waste input28 February 1993
Area0.68 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent SO
Grid reference584300, 165300

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.