most people with a grain of common sense usually burn in the evening when most people have taken in there washing or its calmer for burning allotments rubbish burning is banned from the end of March till the first of November where my daughters has her allotments
last winter it was a very cold and dull day I was chopping some firewood and generally tidying up as no one had any washing out I lit up our chimenea to have a little warm the smoke was blowing across the open fields away from any properties
after about three days I received a letter from the District Council threatening me with an asbo because I had been reported that I had caused excessive smoke and an noxious smell
and that unless I desist from lighting fires court action would be taken against me
I was gob smacked I wrote to the council explaining there was no problem with both smoke or a noxious smell and that due consideration was given to others and properties around me before lighting the fire
they replied that someone had made a complaint and that they where following up the complaint and that the letter was a standard letter they could not offer any dates that I supposedly had my fire and that this complaint would last on there files for six months but I'm not going to let this rest i have threatened them with legal action to prove when this had taken place as yet there declined to reply
prior to this someone reported us to the local parish for burning plastic no time or dates this was given to prove when this took place to the council and subsequently the council addmited that they had no evidence to prove we where burning plastic and members of the council where supportive that all our plastic was recycled and there was no case to answer to obviously we have some rats living near us that need to remember every dog has its day
PS not forgotten