Rainham Road South
Commercial
Rainham Road South is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dartford, Kent. It received commercial waste between 1930 and 1986, covering about 2.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD11047, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11047 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rainham Road South |
| Address | Rainham Road, Dagenham, Essex |
| Site operator | May and Baker Limited |
| Licence holder | Rhone Poulenc Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 April 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 August 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1930 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 2.41 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 551200, 185400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Eastbrookend Country ParkInert
- Bretons FarmInert
- Costain LandWaste types not recorded
- Eastbrookend CemeterySpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Rainham Road Depot - CardromeWaste types not recorded
- Eastbrook FarmWaste types not recorded
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.