Gypsy Site
Inert
Gypsy Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sittingbourne, Kent. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1993, covering about 21.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD19425, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19425 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gypsy Site |
| Address | Swale, Kent |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 21.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 591200, 165200 |
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
- Church MarshesIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Gas LaneInert
- North MurstonWaste types not recorded
- Murston B GWaste types not recorded
- Gas RoadWaste types not recorded
- Mill WayWaste 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.