Smoke control area (Area 5)
In a smoke control area you can’t let smoke out of a chimney unless you burn an authorised fuel or use an exempt appliance, such as a Defra-approved wood burner. The fine can be up to £300.
- Type
- Smoke control area
- Place
- Area 5
- In force since
- Council page
- bathnes.gov.uk
Planning applications in the last year
48 applications inside the zone, newest first.
- Tree work: T1: western Red Cedar: Fel. lRecent increased lean over car park, huge amounts of deadwood and broken branches
- Build single-storey side and rear extension, loft conversion with side and rear dormers, installation of new ASHP…
- Turn an HMO into a house
- Confirm this needs no planning permission: change of use to 4-bed house
- Turn a large hmo into a C3 house
- Confirm this needs no planning permission: change of use to 3-bed house)
- Confirm this needs no planning permission: change of use to 4-bed house
- Build new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) building and associated ancillary infrastructure works
- Follow-up details for an approved plan: replacement garage structure with 'granny flat' annex
- Build rear extension following partial demolition of existing, including increase in roof height…
- Build replacement single-storey rear extension
- Change to an approved plan: build two-storey side and rear extension following demolition of carport
The outline
The shaded area is the zone, from the council’s map. Check the council’s own map before relying on an exact boundary.
51.38571, -2.39450 · Open in a map
Other air zones: Bath Air Quality Management Area, Bath Clean Air Zone, Farrington Gurney Air Quality Management Area, Keynsham proposed Air Quality Management Area, Saltford Air Quality Management Area, Smoke control area (Area 1), Smoke control area (Area 2), Smoke control area (Area 3), Smoke control area (Area 4), Smoke control area (Area 6), Smoke control area (Area 7), Smoke control area (Area 8), Smoke control area (Area 9), Temple Cloud Air Quality Management Area.