Squerries Sand Pit
IndustrialInert
Squerries Sand Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Westerham, Kent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1969 and 1985, covering about 9.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD19609, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19609 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Squerries Sand Pit |
| Address | Sevenoaks, Kent |
| Site operator | Scott Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners |
| Licence holder | Redland Roof |
| Licence issued | 15 October 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 January 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 9.16 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 543200, 153900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Clacket Lane Sand PitWaste types not recorded
- Clacket Lane Sand PitWaste types not recorded
- Grasshopper PitIndustrialInert
- Land At Thrift WoodIndustrialInert
- Sandy LaneLiquid / sludgeInert
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.