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The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
A community guide to organising bonfires and fireworks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
Guy Fawkes’ Night is a calendar highlight. But if you’re going to celebrate it, go to an organised event rather than risk being a “bonfire bandit”.
Only clean, non-commercial waste should be burned like paper, untreated wood and cardboard.
In smoke control areas you can only use certain types of fuel or exempt appliances - find out if you live in one and what you can burn
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Make sure what you burn is both legal and safe and spare a thought for wildlife.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
How councils deal with complaints about smoke from premises that's a statutory nuisance, smoke that's exempt and how smoke can be assessed.
You cannot buy or use fireworks if you're under 18, and you must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except on certain occasions
Some 6 defendants who repeatedly ignored Environment Agency advice about waste storage have been sentenced following an Agency investigation.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
A Northumberland man who made his neighbours’ lives a misery during lockdown by storing and burning waste on an illegal waste site has been sentenced.
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