Landfill Check

Shaw Grange

CommercialInert

Shaw Grange is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ashford, Kent. It received commercial and inert waste between 1991 and 1992, covering about 1.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD19635, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19635
Site nameShaw Grange
AddressMaidstone Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent
Site operatorRecycling Waste Management Limited
Licence holderK A Davies
Licence issued14 October 1991
Licence surrendered2 July 1993
First waste input27 November 1991
Last waste input31 December 1992
Area1.54 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentYes
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent SO
Grid reference593700, 150400

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.