Drone pictures show the shocking scale of a landowner's dump - which has left taxpayers with a bill of more than £40k following a 10-year battle.<br /><br />Maidstone council has spent significant sums and almost a decade pursuing Langley Beck over his 14-hectare plot.<br /><br />The authority started enforcement action in 2014 after it found the land - located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - littered with broken vehicles and waste.<br /><br />Beck was previously described as having a "hoarding disorder" in a parallel contempt of court case, for which he was given a suspended prison sentence.<br /><br />He was due to be sentenced over his plot in Boxley Woods, to the north of Maidstone in Kent, on Friday (June 5), after being convicted of breaching planning regulations.
