Kingsnorth Industrial Estate
Industrial
Kingsnorth Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Gillingham, Medway. It received industrial waste between 1994 and 2010, covering about 27.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD35710, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35710 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Kingsnorth Industrial Estate |
| Address | Kingsnorth On The Medway, Rochester, Hoo, Kent |
| Site operator | Kingsnorth Industrial Estate |
| Licence holder | Kingsnorth Industrial Estate |
| Licence issued | 13 June 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 May 2010 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 27.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent & E Sussex |
| Grid reference | 581400, 173600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Kingsnorth AreaInert
- KingsnorthInert
- Kingsnorth Power StationSpecialLiquid / sludge
- Kingsnorth Power StationWaste types not recorded
- Kingsnorth Power StationWaste 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.