To think it's autumnal enough to have a bonfire?

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Lots of garden waste to get rid of. There was several wood burners I could smell burning this morning and it's down to 10-11 for the next few nights.

Would you think that's fine for a bonfire? I've covered what I want to burn and the rest of the ground should be wetish so good time to have a fire safely, no?

You think bonfires will be banned? 🤣

No one leaves their washing out overnight here and when it's cold the windows are shut.

Some towns already have.

You can already complain about bonfires and the guilty individual can get fined, and rightly so. If you can't be bothered to move in the middle of nowhere but chose to have neighbours, you have to show a minimum of respect, it's not that hard.

If you constantly make fires that smoke alot you could get fined.

One for half an our with dry stuff on a calm night will hardly smoke and no one will really notice.👍

As a previous poster said the local dips often burn the green waste anyway, so it's far more polluting to get it picked up by a gas guzzler to be transported just to be burnt

have you even asked your neighbours if they notice? How would you know until you actually do?

Unfortunately, too many people put up with nuisance and might not report you despite the inconvenience. If everyone did report to the council everytime they are suffering because of the smoke, things would improve.

Why should someone with a bonfire get fined when people with real fires and smoke coming out their chimney for hours on end not? Seems silly to me. I think people on here think you do massive massive bonfires like on guy fawjes night op! It used to be commonplace and nobody really noticed . I get more annoyed about bar b ques to be honest, smoking for hours and garden parties for hours on end. You can't keep your windows open for the noise.

It's dry enough for laundry to be out, and have bedroom windows open, so it's selfish to burn anything and make everything smell.
Compost, take it to the waste yard place or stick it in your green recycle bins or whatever colour you have.
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

Wood smoke is actually very harmful.

So YABU for wanting to burn it at all; dispose of it more responsibly.

woodsmokepollution.org/index.html

I would love to see our council ban bonfires, when they already incinerate two thirds of the rubbish they collect from residents (including - allegedly - some recyclable materials) for energy!

You think bonfires will be banned

If we get a sensible government, yes.

Not sure the current lot can be described as "sensible", however, so you may be fine to carry on your inconsiderate, potentially dangerous, certainly polluting, bonfires.

As I said in my original post, please take it your nearest household tip if it doesn't fit in your green waste bin/you don't have one.

We've put the heating on the last few days, I would love to smell a bonfire! Can't wait for autumn and summer is surely over now.

I would love to smell a bonfire! Can't wait for autumn

why? you don't do laundry in the autumn? You don't open your windows? Your kids don't play outside?

We do all of the above, in autumn AND winter. bonfires stink and pollute, at any time of the year.

I didn’t know people burnt their garden waste (at least not in urban areas). We pay £35 a year for a garden waste bin from the council. It never occurred to me to do anything else. Do you not want to pay?

How horrible for your neighbours though - to be trying to sleep and have their bedrooms smelling of smoke!

I don’t see what doing laundry has to do with autumnal bonfires - we don’t dry our clothes outside. Bonfires are fab!

you might not, but some of us do dry our laundry outside. Just because it's not possible for some unknown reason for you doesn't mean everybody else has to stop to accommodate polluting bonfires.

Fact sheet on bonfires and the law:

www.environmental-protection.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Garden-Bonfires.pdf

So that fact sheet tells me they aren't illegal, and you can have them, and recommend following the guidelines, which also seem to cover bar b ques.

Dry your laundry overnight outside?

No neighbours rooms will be filling with smoke. A proper bonfire burning the right stuff and the right conditions goes up and unless you're outside and near it won't smell it.

I think people that don't like them should move to a smoke free area. One or two bonfires a year for 20 mins is way less of a risk than everyone gets from far worse car fumes every single day.

Dry your laundry overnight outside?

and get it darked on!?!

And get moths and wasps making it home

I do think people are exaggerating a bit about bonfires on here. I'm sure the op won't be doing one as big as you might see on guy fawkes night. In our street in Summer there might be one or two people with washing out and sure a bonfire won't totally ruin it so as it needs to be washed again!!!

I disagree with you on the washing, Tabby - like I’ve said before, bonfire smoke is really pervasive and lingering. If a neighbour had a bonfire and my washing was out it would definitely need to be rewashed.

Oh, and I live in a smoke-free zone. Doesn’t stop people having BBQs, wood burners, open fires and bonfires.

@CassianAndor...absolutely fine for you to disagree. I personally think it's unlikely to affect washing that much.