I think it's unfortunate that having cleared away the concept of an open fire in every house and flat being normal, that the fashion for wood stoves in suburbia has had a detrimental effect on the air quality.
I think the proposed legislation is a rather awkward way to mitigate that, but how else could it be done ?
I don't miss the drudgery of dealing with a fire day after day after day after day, but I do miss a fire.
I can see the appeal of the wood stoves, especially if they're not a daily necessity, but I know just how horrible it was when the neighbour burnt the treated timbers. I wasn't joking about the stench of burning TCP.
I admit that it really put me off having one fitted. I'd even picked out the hearth stone and the stove, and found recommendations for a company who fitted chimneys to gable walls.
It's a bit like invisible flatulence....if you can smell it you know that that air was in someone else's
bowels.
We now know that if you can smell smoke then there are (potentially) harmful particulates in the air you're breathing.
Most off-putting, especially when we're trying to reduce pollution.
I know it's nothing like the mess we made burning coal, and that modern stoves are really very efficient, but I don't need one, not where I live.
M