Landfill Check

Otford Road

HouseholdInert

Otford Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sevenoaks, Kent. It received household and inert waste between 1974 and 1991, covering about 26.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD19541, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19541
Site nameOtford Road
AddressSevenoaks, Kent
Site operatorSevenoaks District Council/Kent County Council
Licence holderKent County Council
Licence issued1 January 1976
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1974
Last waste input31 December 1991
Area26.27 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentYes
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent SO
Grid reference552600, 157500

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
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.