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Handsome Jack writes:
Andrew Gabriel posted
The other change I think is quite likely is the removal of the
exception from smoke control areas for wood-burning stoves in
places like London, possibly as soon as October. That will mean
no more buring of wood in them, and will be retrospective. This
is easily enacted just by reducing or emptying the list of stove
models which are exempt from smokeless fuel regs and doesn't need
any legislative changes.

Changes to building regulations do not usually affect existing
installations. Why do think this one will, and for that matter what is
your source for this information?

It's not changes to building regs - it's changes to an exemption
list under the smoke control act. Smoke control regs are retrospective
(or they would not work), and modifying the exemption list (which is
what allows wood burners in smoke-free areas at the moment) requires no
legislative changes at all.

The reason these are coming under fire is that they were granted an
exception if the manufacturer claimed they emitted below a certain
level of PM2.5 soot. It's now been shown that these manufacturer
claims are miles off reality, and many (if not all) are emitting way
above the permitted levels to have got on to the exemption list.
At the beginning of the year, GLA was looking to get wood burners
retested and the list updated accordingly, to stop their use in
London (although it would change everywhere, as the list is not
London-specific). The other pressure on this is a very rapid rise
in new deployments of wood burners in last few years, particularly
in areas of highest premature death rates from polution such as Barnett.

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