Landfill Check

Lenham Quarry

Inert

Lenham Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sittingbourne, Kent. It received inert waste between 1992 and 2008, covering about 3.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD35642, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35642
Site nameLenham Quarry
AddressHubbards Hill, Maidstone, Lenham, Kent
Site operatorG H Bromley Haulage Limited
Licence holderG H Bromley Haulage Limited
Licence issued9 January 1992
Licence surrendered6 November 2008
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area3.46 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent
Grid reference591500, 152500

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.

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.