Stone 9a 1976
HouseholdCommercialInert
Stone 9a 1976 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanscombe, Kent. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1967 and 1979, covering about 13.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD19288, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19288 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stone 9a 1976 |
| Address | London Road, Stone, Kent |
| Site operator | Gretaer London Council |
| Licence holder | Gretaer London Council |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Last waste input | 1 September 1979 |
| Area | 13.28 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Kent SO |
| Grid reference | 557800, 174300 |
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
- Church Path PitIndustrialInert
- Stone Pit No.1IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stone MarshesIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stone Pit 2 Inert LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Knockhall ChaseIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stone MarshesIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.