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To: Brighton Council
Introduce a full city wide smoke control area in Brighton to protect residents from harmful smoke
Brighton is the largest english city without a full city wide smoke control area to protect its residents from the harmful pollution created from wood and coal burning.
Why is this important?
38% of all particulate emissions are from burning wood and coal in stoves and open fires in people's homes.
In Brighton it is legal to burn coal and wood in the most polluting of ways as there is only a very small (5%) smoke control area. Particulate pollution is a risk to health in Brighton as it regularly exceeds WHO 24 hour PM2.5 health guideline levels and often it is wood and coal burning that are to blame. I ask you to kindly support me in my request asking Brighton and Hove Council to bring in this standard regulation to prevent this most polluting form of fuel burning and improve the health of its residents.
Smoke Control Areas (SCA) are used in cities and towns to regulate in which areas residents are allowed to burn coal, wood in open fires, wood in non exempt stoves and other requirements intended to reduce pollution from burning solid fuel. PM2.5 pollution is lower in cities that have a full Smoke Control Area.
https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2757/rr-1
The government is in the process of strengthening the regulations surrounding SCAs with the intention to improve air quality but in Brighton that regulation cannot be acted upon due to there not being a full, city wide, SCA in place.
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