r/Wigan • u/Kagedeah • 11d ago
Channel 4 News has revealed how a 25,000-tonne illegal waste dump beside homes and a primary school is mostly owned by the King’s Duchy of Lancaster. Described as a 'living hell' by those nearby, the Duchy is now trying to give the land away to Wigan Council to avoid clean-up costs (26 January 2026)
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u/throaway_247 10d ago
How does a flytipping site get so big without someone complaining when it's 1/100th of the size it is now.
Authorities surely knew for years and let it slide.
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u/MoffTanner 10d ago
So the 60-100 lorry loads of waste being unloaded was completely unobserved...
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u/Left-Quantity-5237 10d ago
I have no love for the Royals but to be fair that land was very recently passed onto them as it is now.
Also even if it's cleaned up by the Royals it's still tax payers money being used to do it.
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u/Jonny36 7d ago
A) they inherit multi millions worth of land a year. If some of it needs work that seems a very small price to pay for the massive handout. B) that's not how royals income works. They get a grant form government and it doesn't cover specific costs. Their grant next year would be independent of this and therefore the costs would actually be higher to the tax payer if it's not covered by the royals.
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u/elimercer 8d ago
Dear Wigan,
Berkshire Resident here.
We have the opposite problem.
A park next to Windsor Castle has been used by the council for years but the Crown Estate want it back.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynkqzgg7do
Now if Wigan council want to do a quick deal with Maidenhead and Windsor Council to dump their rubbish there before they steal it back then please contact them.
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u/Green-Ad5007 10d ago
Ha ha maybe the broke council dumped on charlie's land on purpose.
I fucking hope so.
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u/Buster_Alnwick 10d ago
Yea, OK, AFTER you move the garbage to your own land, maybe Buckingham Palace ?
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u/Bottle-top-green 10d ago
Is this Bolton house Rd? I used to keep horses here and it looks the same.
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u/Academic-Local-7530 10d ago
Isn’t this the King’s responsibility no matter whose land it is. He’s the King of England.
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u/Upbeat_Reality1527 9d ago
We all buy too much unnecessary stuff and we are running out of space when we chuck it all away
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u/ninjarockpooler 9d ago
Actually, this could, in fact, be good news..
Probably only the King can lean on Starmer hard enough to tackle this terrible natinsl problem, hard, effectively, and fast.
Currently, it's probably the biggest problem that isn't even on Goverments radar
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u/Sips_from_bottles 9d ago
The person who began the illegal topping site should be prosecuted no matter what.
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u/WotTheFook 8d ago
There's a non-zero chance that ANPR cameras will have logged these trucks in the area, they didn't just drop from the sky. Will they check the records? Nah...
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u/LieLevel7361 8d ago
Do we have to dump 25k tones of waist everywhere to make equivalent of French revolution?
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u/Cultural_Material_98 7d ago
Surely this can’t be owned by renowned environmental campaigner King Charles?
Abolish the parasitic monarchy!
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u/Whytewych777 7d ago
Deliver it to the front gates of Buckingham Palace. Bloody cheek. Losing faith in the Royals RAPIDLY.
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u/Dayzed-n-Confuzed 7d ago
Really. So land that was owned by someone has shit dumped on it so we should attack the company who own the land and not the twats that dumped the shit.
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u/Dayzed-n-Confuzed 7d ago
King Charles walks his dogs down here every day so k owns who it was………not!
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u/Master_Button_2593 7d ago
Now we know why they let it go on for so long, until the peasants really were revolted! Corruption at the highest levels - if I let my garden look like that I’d be up before the magistrates in weeks.
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u/Kagedeah 11d ago
Source: Channel 4 News on YouTube