Wednesday 22 Aug 2018 @ 10:20
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Air quality: using cleaner fuels for domestic burning

Summary

Seeking views on our proposals to help households change to cleaner fuels for domestic burning of wood and solid fuels.

This consultation closes at 11:45pm on 12 October 2018

Consultation description

We want to know what you think about our proposals for helping householders move to cleaner fuels for domestic burning. The changes we propose include only allowing the sale of cleaner solid fuels. These proposals apply to England only.

Domestic burning is the single largest source of harmful particulate pollution in the UK. Many people do not realise that there are cleaner alternatives, such as dry wood instead of wet, or low-sulphur smokeless fuel instead of coal.

Documents

Consultation letter PDF, 150KB, 2 pages

Consultation on cleaner domestic burning of solid fuels and wood PDF, 684KB, 17 pages

Draft impact assessment PDF, 848KB, 25 pages

Ways to respond

Respond online

or

Email to: cleanair.consultations@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Write to:

Local Air Quality Team, 
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 
Seacole Building, 
2 Marsham Street, 
London SW1P 4DF

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Channel website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs

Original article link: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/air-quality-using-cleaner-fuels-for-domestic-burning

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