Iwade: Probe launched into mass fly-tipping on farmland

Martin Montague, founder of the ClearWaste app for licensed waste removal, said: “What we’ve got here is systematic destruction of a large part of Kent’s countryside.”

He added: “We’ve got massive processing of illegal waste being dumped there and this is fly-tipping on an absolutely epidemic scale.”

Residents living near the site at Raspberry Hill Park Farm say it has been going on for years and are calling for action to stop it.

Waste disposal sites require a permit from the Environment Agency or an exemption from needing one. The BBC has established that the site has neither.

Local people are worried to speak out for fear of reprisals.

One resident, who declined to be identified, told BBC South East: “It’s a constant stream of lorries going up there tipping stuff. Bonfires.. we see the black smoke all the time.

“It’s just a regular base of criminality. It’s massive. And the amount of stuff they’re putting in there day after day after day.”