Grovehurst Farm
Inert
Grovehurst Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Paddock Wood, Kent. It received inert waste between 1994 and 2000, covering about 0.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD19716, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19716 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Grovehurst Farm |
| Address | Tunbridge Wells, Kent |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | R E Docwra Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 March 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 2000 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.87 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 571900, 140800 |
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
- Northiam FarmInert
- NevergoodIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Horsmonden Railway CuttingInert
- Disused Railway CuttingInert
- Shear FarmInert
- Yew Tree FarmInert
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.