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1. Please state how many complaints your local authority has received about smoke from domestic fires from 1st Sept 2024 to 31st August 2025 inclusive? If you have separated this data into types of fires please include this detail.
2. Please state the number of enforcement actions taken by your local authority, in the following categories, against suspected breaches of smoke control area rules from 1st Sept 2024 to 31st August 2025 inclusive:
a) Warning or guidance letters b) Inspections c) Penalty notices d) Prosecution?
b) How many complaints concerned people who had previously been the addressee of an enforcement action, including letters?
3. Please provide a copy of any guidance issued internally to council officers regarding the enforcement of alleged breaches of smoke control area rules.
4. Please provide a copy of any reports or guidance produced by your council relating to the local implementation of the Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 from 1 May 2021.
5. If your council is not fully designated a Smoke Control Area, can you please explain how complaints have been handled in controlled versus non controlled areas?