Sydenham Gasworks Phase 1
Industrial
Sydenham Gasworks Phase 1 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near City of London, Greater London. It received industrial waste between 1993 and 1994, covering about 0.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD11493, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11493 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sydenham Gasworks Phase 1 |
| Address | Sydenham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Gas Plc |
| Licence issued | 17 February 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 April 1993 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 0.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 536800, 171900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sydenham Gasworks Phase 1Industrial
- Sydenham GasworksSpecialInert
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.