[Diggers350] King’s private estate tried to sell UK’s ‘worst illegal waste dump’ to Wigan council ‘at market rate for land’

[Tony Gosling]

King’s private estate tried to sell UK’s ‘worst 
illegal waste dump’ to council ‘at market rate for land’
https://tlio.org.uk/bickershaw/

<https://tlio.org.uk/bickershaw/>6 May 2026 
<https://tlio.org.uk/author/tony/>Tony Gosling 
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<https://www.thenational.scot/news/26058009.kings-private-estate-tried-sell-land-waste-dump-council/>Toxic 
waste on Duchy Estate land in Wigan.  King’s 
private estate tried to sell land with UK’s 
‘worst illegal waste dump’ to council

https://archive.is/m3xZb#selection-1235.0-1587.96

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMT2cTDKN1E>KING 
Charles’s private estate tried to sell land that 
was contaminated with a large rotting illegal 
waste dump to a local authority, it has emerged. 
In January, a 25,000-ton site described as the 
UK’s “worst illegal waste dump” in Bickershaw, 
Wigan, was revealed to be largely on land owned 
by the Duchy of Lancaster, the King’s extensive 
private portfolio of properties and estates. 
Previously, the Duchy said it had offered to 
transfer the land to Wigan Council in July last year.

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However, a Freedom of Information Request by 
Channel 4 News found that the Duchy tried to sell 
the site to the local authority at full market 
price. The Duchy previously claimed that it is, 
in effect, exempt from regulations and duties to 
clean the site on account of an ancient feudal 
legal framework dating back some 750 years.

Then in February, following revelations that the 
toxic illegal landfill was largely on the Duchy’s 
land, the estate followed up the offer to the 
council, offering to transfer the land for free. 
“We have discussed the matter with the Duchy 
Solicitor, who has confirmed the Duchy will 
transfer the property to the Council for nil 
value and with each party bearing their own costs 
in the hope that that will assist the Council in 
dealing with the property in conjunction with its 
own adjoining land,” the Duchy wrote.

In the revealed correspondence, emails from the 
Duchy’s solicitors, Farrer & Co, show, in 
addition to the transfer offer, that the Duchy 
attempted to sell the contaminated land at market 
value to the council. In July, the Duchy 
reportedly wrote: “
 it may be possible to sell 
the land to you. Any sale would have to be at 
open market value and the Duchy of Lancaster’s 
valuers, and our costs would have to be paid as 
well.” Wigan Council told Channel 4 News on 
Monday that it “respectfully declined” the Duchy’s offer.

<https://archive.is/m3xZb#selection-1235.0-1587.96>A 
Duchy of Lancaster spokesperson told Channel 4 
News: “We continue to work with Wigan Council to 
try and find an effective resolution to the 
illegal waste site.” Last month, Greater 
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said that the 
Duchy’s plan to hand contaminated land to the 
local council is “not an acceptable response”. 
The UK Government has since announced it will 
fund the clean-up of the Wigan site, although it has yet to begin




















































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