My petition comes as a result of suffering the pollution from a growing number of smoking domestic chimneys and flues in my area. The pollution has turned the air quality in my area into poor and inpredictable in short time of a few years. You can no longer be sure of being able to open a window or go in the garden. Even going for a run is something that has to be timed to early morning if you want to avoid breathing in smoke. It is frequent that I have to close my windows and vents to stop smoke getting in from outside, and turn the kitchen extractor on to suck smoke out from my home. Tbis is my home. I want to be able to live in it safely and feel happy. I don't of course. Winter is horrendous after about midday. Afternoon seems to be time most people want to light up and getting worse around early evening. You can see the smoke pouring out of chimneys. I live in a smoke control area and yet the current laws seem powerless to deal with this issue. At least, nothing effective has ever been done to stop it resulting from my reports to the council environmental services. I am getting desparate for someone to do what is needed to rise above those who promote log burners to be 'green' and see the reality of the damage to air quality and communities they are really doing. Maybe now when the council declares its ambition to be zero carbon by whatever date it is is the catalyst to do something about this awful problem exists.
Started by: Jennifer Henderson
This ePetition ran from 14/08/2020 to 25/09/2020 and has now finished.
3 people signed this ePetition.