Landfill Check

Swanscombe Cement

Inert

Swanscombe Cement is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanscombe, Kent. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1993, covering about 1.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD19274, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19274
Site nameSwanscombe Cement
AddressManor Way, Swanscombe, Kent
Site operatorBlue Circle Industries Plc
Licence holderBlue Circle Industries Plc
Licence issued18 May 1979
Licence surrendered16 April 1993
First waste input2 January 1980
Last waste input26 March 1993
Area1.43 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaKent SO
Grid reference559700, 175200

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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.