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Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
The D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
When you can burn waste wood, particle board, straw, manure and poultry litter in the open after an animal disease outbreak.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
When you can exceed the burning and storage limits in waste exemption D7 to burn trees and plants affected by disease or pests in the open.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
Use this form to apply for approval to burn unprocessed poultry manure in a combustion plant on your farm or holding.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
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Provides advice and a reminder on the safe use and handling of gas welding and burning equipment.
In smoke control areas you can only use certain types of fuel or exempt appliances - find out if you live in one and what you can burn
How businesses can get a rebate of duty on light oil used as a furnace fuel.
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