Wood-burning Stoves: Smoke Control Areas
(asked on 6th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department has issued to (a) local authorities and (b) manufacturers on the 3mg limit on new stoves in Smoke Control Areas.
Answered by
Robbie Moore
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 15th December 2023
In our Environmental Improvement Plan, published in January 2023, we committed to lowering the emission limits for solid fuel stoves in Smoke Control Areas from 5 grams of smoke per hour of operation to at least as low as 3 grams of smoke per hour of operation.
As the Department is currently developing this policy, no guidance has yet been issued.