As I wrote earlier, in -95 when we movement to UK, all cities smelled wintertime of low grade coal being used, exactly the same smell as in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary ( have no experience of Poland and Soviet Union).
Smokeless it was not, that I am 100% sure off.
Fear not, WG, they will not take your woodburner!
But if you will need to replace it, you will only have the option of the new, high efficient and low polluting, designs.
Laws are (sometimes ?) designed by city dwellers who do not understand the negatives with country living.
I too would barricade my house if the authorities told me I was not allowed to use a wood burner. All my Norwegian friends would do the same.
And stand in the window, brandishing a gun, whale harpoon or any other tool.
I find sometimes the logic the states use ridiculous.
Banning stuff to save a couple of thousand lives ( supposedly, not scientifically proven or verified) but allowing the sale of tobacco and alcohol, two single items that kill tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people ( in a country with the population the number of UK.
Oops, maybe the duties and taxation has something to do with it?
Or the sickening fact that once we are OAPs we are an economic burden and not an asset?
Just a thought!