Landfill Check

Lea Bridge Depot Site

Inert

Lea Bridge Depot Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near City of London, Greater London. It received inert waste in 1986, covering about 3.72 hectares. Reference EAHLD11132, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11132
Site nameLea Bridge Depot Site
AddressLea Bridge
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderThames Water
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1986
Last waste input30 April 1986
Area3.72 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference535800, 186600

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

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.