Hersden Tip
CommercialInert
Hersden Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Fordwich, Kent. It received commercial and inert waste between 1976 and 1984, covering about 18.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD19471, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19471 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hersden Tip |
| Address | Hersden, Kent |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Brett and Sons |
| Licence issued | 17 December 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 18.46 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 619900, 162100 |
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
- Hoplands FarmIndustrialInert
- Henden - WestbeareHouseholdCommercialInert
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.