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Wharf associated the manufacture of Portland cement, a great Kentish industry and cement mills were established on this site in the 1830/40s. This redundant wharf in particular is associated with Blue Circle Industries cement works at Bevans Wharf, Northfleet (Gravesend, Kent). Northfleet's cement industry is now assigned to history.
The last cement works closed in 2008 and the chimneys were pulled down in 2010 and only reminder of Bevans Cement Works is Bevans Wharf located adjacent to the proposed public promenade within the residential half of the site. The plant used the river for most of its transportation, maintaining the best deep water jetty on the south bank. For much of its later history it was Blue Circle's main exporting plant. The coal used by the works was all sea-borne and was received alongside the eastern extremity of the deep-water jetty, where it was unloaded by electric grab cranes and transported by a belt conveyor system to storage bunkers ashore.
The wharf and associated structures are currently in a poor condition and removal may be considered desirable to avoid compromising the environment of the new residential housing development. Notwithstanding this, the application proposal does not prohibit the retention and refurbishment of this wharf as a potential node for pedestrian river transport.
