Flue for a wood-burning stove in shared passageway

[battybobo1]

My parent's neighbour wants to install a wood-burning stove and have the flue exit the house in a shared passage between the 2 houses. Passage is only about 1 metre wide. Please can anyone tell me if this would be allowed?

If it exits high up ( above the height of a person ). Then I can’t see it being a problem.

If it’s low down then it’s going to block access if the gap is only a metre wide.

www.stovesonline.co.uk/installation-and-regs-help-advice This should help!

I wouldn’t be happy at all about shared space being used for a permanent fixture which in effect extends the neighbour’s house into the passage.

Plus particulates from wood burning stoves are significant pollution.

I wouldn't be happy with that at all, especially as my DS is asthmatic. Hopefully it's not allowed!

And I doubt it would be allowed.

The use of the passage might be laid out in detail in the deeds, a covenant, a licence, the deeds or other document, but they shouldn’t be able to install anything on or above land which is part owned by your parents.

Surely the flue wouldn’t actually discharge smoke into the passageway but would extend up high? The website linked by a PP is useful about where flues can effective discharge.

Do either of them have pipe work, gutter down pipes for example, in the passageway? That might be an argument that they could have a flu that extended no further than the diameter of existing pipes.

But I don’t have expert knowledge.

No. No. No. Have had big issues with my neighbour over his chimney smoke coming in my house..the council do not want to know, they are useless. Do not agree to it over a communal area!

I assume you mean the flue will come through the wall from the wood burner, then run up the wall with the smoke coming out above roof level?

They will have to have the fire and chimney installed by HETAS registered tradesmen and get a certificate- strict rules now.