Landfill Check

Thames Cooling Ponds

Inert

Thames Cooling Ponds is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dartford, Kent. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1988, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD11442, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11442
Site nameThames Cooling Ponds
AddressRainham, Havering, London
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderFord Motor Company Limited
Licence issued11 September 1984
Licence surrendered6 June 1988
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input6 June 1988
Area1.04 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference550600, 182400

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.