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When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
How to apply for a licence from Defra to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm within a less favoured area.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
Richard Burn was HM Trade Commissioner for China, and leads the Department for International Trade (DIT) in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao. His professional career has been focused on helping businesses of all sizes generate commercial value through improved...
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U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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