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A house owner has been fined hundreds of pounds after admitting he paid a complete stranger to dispose of his rubbish. A huge pile of waste was discovered fly-tipped behind The Norton Knatchbull School in Ashford, at the entrance to Joey’s Wood. Among the rubbish was wood, bricks and plastic bags. But also retrieved from the pile was a planning application letter addressed to a house in Hunter Road in Willesborough. A team from Ashford Borough Council’s (ABC) environmental enforcement visited the property and it was clearly having renovation work done. A Land Registry check tracked down the ou…