THE King was yesterday given the go-ahead for a manure lagoon at Sandringham — a few hundred yards from Prince William’s country home.
Charles can now create the slurry pit, the size of four Olympic swimming pools, in farming fields near Anmer Hall, Norfolk.
The organic manure will be put on surrounding crop fields and newly planted forestry.
It was given the all-clear despite objections from villagers in nearby Flitcham worried about the potential smell.
Planning officer Lucy Smith said today the decision “would be lawful.”
She said in a detailed report: “There is no mechanism in place for the Local Planning Authority to consider general odour impacts from a nuisance perspective.”
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She also said: “No adverse tourism impacts are considered likely particularly given the site’s location surrounded by agricultural uses.”
The estate’s application said: “The site is ideally located to meet the need for storage capacity being centrally located to the network of fields in question, as well as being visually contained by the mature vegetation.”
“A variety of trees, including cider apple, perry pear, plum, quince, mulberry, and walnut, have since been planted in addition to wildflower strips.
It also promised to enclose the lagoon with an embankment seeded with meadow grass and wild flowers.
