Charlie Farley's Rubbish Tip

[axel_knutt]

Did anyone see Channel Four news last night?

Apparently, one of the many illegal mega-fly tips is in Wigan, on land owned by King Charles. The council have been trying to get him to clear it up, but he's refusing, and the council can't do anything about it because he has Crown Immunity, and can't be held liable. Rather magnanimously, he's offered to donate the land to the council, so that it becomes their liability.

It was fun watching the indignant outraged politicians backpedal when they discovered whose land it is.

[Snoopy]

Maybe he could sell to Trump for a golf course

[Cowsham]

It would do instead of Greenland and we'd also throw in one of the late great Janey Godly's welcome signs.

[reohn2]

I live 3 miles as the crow flies from that tip.What strikes me as incredible is that the people who dumped the rubbish there aren't being make to clean it up,someone knows who's done it.

Apparently,according to press reports,it's one of a couple of hundred similar illegal tips up and down the country that are linked to organised crime.
How they get away with it I can only guess,but it's not done out the back of a Trannie van when no one's about,that kind of tipping needs big trucks and diggers to pile it up!

[axel_knutt]

On our local news last night there was a farmer who's likely going bankrupt because he's being expected to pay £500,000 for removing a pile of waste fly tipped on his land. He put up cameras to catch them: the council made him take them down, he put up gates to stop them: the council made him take those down too. Guess where the waste originated from when the BBC traced it: yep, that's right, it's domestic waste from the council street collections.

[Cowsham]

On our local news last night there was a farmer who's likely going bankrupt because he's being expected to pay £500,000 for removing a pile of waste fly tipped on his land. He put up cameras to catch them: the council made him take them down, he put up gates to stop them: the council made him take those down too. Guess where the waste originated from when the BBC traced it: yep, that's right, it's domestic waste from the council street collections.

So to be clear -- was it the actual council that was dumping rubbish on the farmers land?

[axel_knutt]

On our local news last night there was a farmer who's likely going bankrupt because he's being expected to pay £500,000 for removing a pile of waste fly tipped on his land. He put up cameras to catch them: the council made him take them down, he put up gates to stop them: the council made him take those down too. Guess where the waste originated from when the BBC traced it: yep, that's right, it's domestic waste from the council street collections.

So to be clear -- was it the actual council that was dumping rubbish on the farmers land?

Well that's the issue isn't it, I doubt it was a council employee, but who are they hiring, and why did they stop him putting up gates and cameras? I live in Braintree, and it was Braintree Council recycling sacks that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall found on a fly tip out in Malaysia a few years ago. There may have been papers with my address on in the sack he held up for the camera.

Last year Radio 4 did a programme on illegal fly tips, and they said that their investigations had discovered that the organised crime gangs were paying off the staff in the local councils and Environment Agency. The giant fly tips are so conspicuous, slow growing, and easy to trace, there has to be a reason why the authorities show no interest in preventing them.