Smoke control area (Area 8)
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 8
- In force since
- Council page
- bathnes.gov.uk
Planning applications in the last year
70 applications inside the zone, newest first.
- Tree work: T1: oak, reduce height by up to 2 metres and spread by 1.5: 2 metres all round
- Listed building: internal work to repair modern flooring, suspended ceilings and joists following water damage
- Tree work: Prunus tree needs felling due to roots undermining nearby sewage pipes and inspection chamber
- Inside changes to a listed building: to remove the door and staircase stud partition in the basement to open it out…
- Follow-up details for an approved plan: build single-storey rear extension and a two-storey side extension with pitched mansard roof…
- Confirm an existing use is lawful: use of site as
- Knock down existing outbuilding. Erection of outbuildings to form pool house. New roof window to house. Installation of bifold…
- Confirm this needs no planning permission: use of existing home for short-term holiday lets, while retaining private residential use
- Knock down existing attached garage and build single-storey side and rear extension
- Small change to approved plans: widen driveway entrance, reinstate gates to the driveway, reinstate driveway infront of the house…
- Convert integral garage to provide additional living accommodation; loft conversion incorporating a rear dormer…
- Outside changes to a listed building: display of 1 externally illuminated projecting sign, 3 fascia signs, 1 internally illuminated lantern…
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.
51.39977, -2.36428 · 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 5), Smoke control area (Area 6), Smoke control area (Area 7), Smoke control area (Area 9), Temple Cloud Air Quality Management Area.