new national burning laws

[bushwacker bob]

anyone have any info on the new legislation that starts at the begining of March?
Bonfires will be Illegal unless you have a 'licence to burn' available from local governments for a mere £2000 per annum. This could prove problematic for bushcraft and have far reaching consequences. :shock:

 

[Rob]

I know that this applies to business, but dont think that it applies to the general public. It is more to do with waste disposal than boiling up a cuppa.

 

[Kath]

anyone have any info on the new legislation that starts at the begining of March?
Bonfires will be Illegal unless you have a 'licence to burn' available from local governments for a mere £2000 per annum. This could prove problematic for bushcraft and have far reaching consequences. :shock:

:yikes: It's a new one on me. :?:

Can't find anything on google beyond the usual 'Statutory Nuisance' stuff. There's a map on http://uksmokecontrolareas.co.uk to see if you're in a smokeless zone.

 

[RAPPLEBY2000]

i would have thought it's more for the big burners, can you imagine trying to police the whole of the UK?

the average person is not going to pay £2000 and the Gov know that, so big business not aplicable to ourselves i reckon.

 

[RovingArcher]

Well, I hope that it doesn't affect the individuals ability for a small fire in the bush. That would be a real bummer for sure.

 

[ChrisKavanaugh]

I submit one response- Guy Fawkes

 

[Tantalus]

someone been pulling your leg bob?

i searched google and could not find anything relevant

except to say that certain infected trees and undesirable plants are reccomended if not legally obliged to be burned

Tant

 

[Ranger Bob]

anyone have any info on the new legislation that starts at the begining of March?
Bonfires will be Illegal unless you have a 'licence to burn' available from local governments for a mere £2000 per annum. This could prove problematic for bushcraft and have far reaching consequences. :shock:

If indeed such legislation is coming into force, i'm sure that a bushcrafter's fire will hardly count as a 'bonfire'.

 

[Andy]

If indeed such legislation is coming into force, i'm sure that a bushcrafter's fire will hardly count as a 'bonfire'.

Not unless I'm cooking anyway (and to get in before Espy)

I also think it's just for buisness puproses

 

[Realgar]

It's an EU reg that the govt had little intent of enforcing when it coems to homes ( unless you're making a nuisance with the fire ). Comes with the same series of legislation that makes it technicaly illegal to compost within fifty yards of a kitchen ( I think it's fifty yard ). What stuns me is the number of gardeners so het up over this that they're actually afraid of getting done for it, that and the people worried about the law on hose pipes and non-return valves.
Here's the EA line on this:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/Topics/Hom...thArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4018684&chk=B2M5st

Realgar

 

[Ranger Bob]

Comes with the same series of legislation that makes it technicaly illegal to compost within fifty yards of a kitchen ( I think it's fifty yard ).

Its probably 50 'metres' (yuk) and I think its the same legislation that prohibits the composting of potato peelings (in case they spread foot and mouth diesese, apparently!) You couldn't make it up!

 

[bushwacker bob]

It will still be legal to cremate a dead relative in the garden,providing no one complains ):

 

[Stew]

It will still be legal to cremate a dead relative in the garden,providing no one complains ):

:shock: