Holwood Farm
Inert
Holwood Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Westerham, Kent. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1985, covering about 4.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD19783, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19783 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Holwood Farm |
| Address | Sugrue, Holwood Farm, North of Shire Lane |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sugrue Construction |
| Licence issued | 6 January 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 May 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1985 |
| Area | 4.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 542500, 163600 |
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
- Sugrue Down RoadHouseholdInert
- New Road HillWaste types not recorded
- Former Lime WorksHouseholdInert
- Green Acres Riding SchoolWaste types not recorded
- Milking LaneWaste types not recorded
- Land at Leaves GreenInert
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.