Lime Kiln Oast
Inert
Lime Kiln Oast is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crowborough, East Sussex. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1992, covering about 5.84 hectares. Reference EAHLD34621, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34621 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lime Kiln Oast |
| Address | Palesgate Lane, Rotherfield |
| Site operator | Coppards |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1992 |
| Area | 5.84 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 553900, 130400 |
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
- Golf CourseWaste types not recorded
- Little Forest FarmInert
- Fermor WayWaste types not recorded
- Hourne Farm Pumping StationWaste types not recorded
- Laurel Tree FarmInert
- Grub ReedInert
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.