Northfleet Urban Country Park

The site was used for orchards / farming until the 1940s, when it (and others along the railway) was used as a chalk pit. This went down to about 8‐10m deep. On 7 May 1957, planning was given for a refuse tip on the site, and on 10 December 1992, landfill gas venting trenches were installed. Gravesend Council permitted the formation of an urban country park containing a lake, woodlands, meadows, wetlands and trim trail, play area and toilets/kiosk/seating area in August 1996. The site was landscaped with the importing of 130,000m³ of cleaned topsoil, to raise the level of the land between two and four metres. New resurfaced footpath and cycle routes were then constructed on the 2…