Landfill Check

Pluckley Brick

HouseholdCommercialInert

Pluckley Brick is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Tenterden, Kent. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1985 and 1998, covering about 2.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD19846, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19846
Site namePluckley Brick
AddressPluckley, Kent
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCleanaway Limited
Licence issued2 July 1985
Licence surrendered1 January 1992
First waste input2 August 1985
Last waste input1 November 1998
Area2.88 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent SO
Grid reference591800, 143600

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.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
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.