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    Calls to clear up ‘environmental disaster’ beauty spot in Kent

    by Anahita Hossein-Pour Apr 28, 2024 3 minutes

    A local community living by an ancient woodland that has been plagued by thousands of tonnes of dumped illegal waste is calling for the Environment Agency (EA) to “do the right thing” and immediately secure the funding to clear up the mess.

    Hoad’s Wood is a beauty spot in Ashford, Kent, designated a site of special scientific interest, but is now described as an “environmental disaster”.

    Campaigners have said the bluebell woodland has turned into a “desolate wasteland” buried under landfill waste, which in some areas is 25-foot-deep, despite continuous reporting

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