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The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
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.
Product Safety Report for Thermomix TM6 Measuring Cup presenting a risk of burns due to incorrect instructions.
How to apply for a licence from Defra to burn heather or grass on deep peat within a protected site.
This document contains a synopsis of causation occurring in burns.
You must tell DVLA if you have obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) or any sleep condition or apnoea which causes excessive sleepiness.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
Malcolm Burns joined the Government Chemist programme in October 2000. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the field of molecular biology and is also the Manager for the UK National Reference Laboratory for Genetically Modified Organisms in Food...
This project looks to develop policy on controlled burns and to establish workable guidelines on when controlled burn may be appropriate.
Excess Winter Mortality Report 2012 to 2013, accompanied by an explanatory letter from Professor John Newton, Chief Knowledge Officer at Public Health England.
How to get approval to burn poultry manure in a combustion unit on your farm or holding.
Sir Andrew is a former UK Ambassador to Israel, and was UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust issues from June 2010 to September 2015. Sir Andrew’s career includes the following positions: British Ambassador to Israel, 1992 to 1995 Deputy Under Secretary...
How councils deal with complaints about smoke from premises that's a statutory nuisance, smoke that's exempt and how smoke can be assessed.
Joint analytical article between the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on deaths during heat-periods in 2022. ONS analysis uses deaths occurrence data (from registered death certificates) to calculate excess mortality during heat-periods for England...
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
Use this form to apply for approval to burn unprocessed poultry manure in a combustion plant on your farm or holding.
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