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Smoke control areas
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1. Please state how many complaints your local authority has received about smoke from domestic fires from the 1st January 2022 until September 2023 (per calendar month).
We have no smoke control areas in our borough.
2. Please state the number of enforcement actions taken by your local authority in the following categories against suspected breaches of smoke control area rules:
a) Warning or guidance letters
b) Inspections
c) Penalty notices, please specify
i. £300.00 fines
ii. higher fines
d) Prosecutions
We have no smoke control areas in our borough.
3. Please clarify how many of the enforcements under Question 2 were awarded under the new Environment Act (2021) and or its designated regulations as part of the statutory Environmental Improvement Plan 2023.
We have no smoke control areas in our borough.
4. Please provide a copy of any guidance issued internally to council officers regarding the enforcement of alleged breaches of smoke control area rules including the most recent tightening of regulations permitting emissions of 3mg of smoke per hour only, described in the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 (page 80-81).
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1168372/environmental-improvement-plan-2023.pdf
