Is there still laws saying what time you can and can not have a fire in your garden? Around me people have them when they want :evil: i thought it was 6pm could be wrong?
Jon

I don't know about laws. I always thought it was common decency to at least to wait until your neighbours washing was in or to warn them.

Moon Maiden

Originally posted by "Moon Maiden"

I don't know about laws. I always thought it was common decency to at least to wait until your neighbours washing was in or to warn them.

Moon Maiden

i thought it was an unwritten rule to start fires when you have washing out :P

thats what they must think here

most people dont know what common decency is Moon Maiden

Originally posted by "RPG"

I don't know about laws. I always thought it was common decency to at least to wait until your neighbours washing was in or to warn them.

Moon Maiden

i thought it was an unwritten rule to start fires when you have washing out :P

thats what they must think here and its always someone burning old tyres

Obvisouly not......eeeeeee by eck that state t' country today

Moon Maiden

I think it has to be after 6pm, but note sheffield is a smokeless zone.
:?

Unless there are specific bye-laws in Sheffield ( I don't know if there are) then I found this on the net.

Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, a statutory nuisance includes "smoke, fumes or gases emitted from premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance". In practice, to be considered a nuisance, a bonfire would have to be a regular problem and interfering substantially with your well-being, comfort or enjoyment of your property

I think you can have a fire to burn 'garden waste' etc at any time providing that it does not cause a nuisance. This basically means that anything goes unless someone actually complains to the council about it, and then it would have to be a regular occurrence before they would take any action.

Common sense should apply, but it's surprising how many people don't have any!

Jim

Yes it used to be dusk when everyone had their washing in but I doubt whether anyone takes any notice of that these days.

Why do ppl leave there washing out in all weathers in stead of bringing them in...Some ppl close to where i live put the washing out a night doesn't that defeat the object?

I believe the previous poster is correct - fires are only allowed after 6pm. Note this only applies to residents. Sheffield City Council can keep the Bernard Road incinerator going 24 hours a day.

:( I thing the wally who lives a few doors down from me thinks that every time the sun comes out, he has to light a fire or life will end !!

We daren't even think of lighting a barbeque or owt, cos you just know that the smoke will rise as soon as the sun shows its face.

A bucket of water or a broken nose is the solution, but which one i don't know :?:

Don't bother with the violence, just report him to the council, its illegal to have fires before 19.00.

Originally posted by "Abby"

I believe the previous poster is correct - fires are only allowed after 6pm. Note this only applies to residents. Sheffield City Council can keep the Bernard Road incinerator going 24 hours a day.

No offence, but after reading a lot of your posts Abby, you seem a little obsessed with the Bernard Road incinerator! You mention it nearly every post. Do you live next door to it or something?

Originally posted by "t020"

I believe the previous poster is correct - fires are only allowed after 6pm. Note this only applies to residents. Sheffield City Council can keep the Bernard Road incinerator going 24 hours a day.

No offence, but after reading a lot of your posts Abby, you seem a little obsessed with the Bernard Road incinerator! You mention it nearly every post. Do you live next door to it or something? She might have shares in Bernard Road incinerator :wink:

Fellow Sheffielders

It's not an obsession I have with the incinerator, it's a concern.
Why? Because it's the most polluting incinerator in the country, and generates thousands of tonnes of toxic waste which is dumped at the Parkwood landfill site, where some is blown around and pollutes the local environment (yes, a double whammy).

I don't live next to the incinerator or the landfill site, but I live close enough to worry, and pass by both on the way to work (mind you, most Sheffielders seem to, thanks to their central locations).

Because both are located in North East Sheffield, the council isn't in a hurry to pull its finger out. Health Authority expert Rosie McNaught insisted there is no evidence that the incinerator emissions pose any danger to health - because no research has been done on the subject, despite pleas from local residents and environmental groups.

Finally, Abby is a he, not a she...I take it you have not seen my website...?

or your avatar

Hmm. Nice site, apart from the killing baby seal bit, which I find quite disgusting.

Originally posted by "t020"

Hmm. Nice site, apart from the killing baby seal bit, which I find quite disgusting.

Suggestion noted. I'll remove it the next time I update the site.

The Parkwood site poses a risk in my ways, rats, smell toxic waste i could go on but the reason the council has eventually listened and closed it is due to the fact that a new housing estate has been built over looking it and the newresidents have complained about the smell.
I lived on Penrith Road during the early 1980s and the smell was just as bad then but despite complaints from locals about the smells especially in summer all pleas were ignored.
New residents that have lived there 2 minutes in smart private houses complain having known the tip was there when buying there house get the tip closed.
Hypocracy in my book.

Originally posted by "The Cycleracer"

New residents that have lived there 2 minutes in smart private houses complain having known the tip was there when buying there house get the tip closed.
Hypocracy in my book.

Yes I was thinking that some months ago! Couldn't new residents see/smell it when they viewed the show houses? But at least you say it is closed now (although I have not been able to verify this). But where new waste produced by the incinerator will be dumped, or what will happen to the existing landfill site, I don't know.

I don't wish to scaremonger, but I've read toxic waste at the landfill site could find its way downhill to the River Don

http://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/messenger/february2002/dumped.shtml

Would you believe the landfill site is next to a nature reserve? Only in Sheffield, eh!

Going back to the Sheffield Incinerator, this is what Greenpeace have to say about it:

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?CFID=143997&CFTOKEN=68971987&Sit ekeyParam=D-D-D

Thanks for the link Alchresearch

Ever wanted a tour of an incinerator? No? Well if you do (or even if you don't) have a look at this interactive tour, again courtesy of Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/Templates/template3_view.cfm?UCIDParam=20020218163414&CFID=8 9331&CFTOKEN=65086011

The page requires Macromedia Flash.

I heard from someone alledgedly in the know that the cause of the smells at parkwood was that of congealed blood from the local slaughter houses burried some time ago underneath the rubbish, thats one of the things that attracts the rats!!

I know this has got nothing to do with stuff but Abby your baby is the cutest thing in the world!

where I live, the neighbours object if one lights a fire in the garden anytime!

Has Davey considered the fact that the smell of barbeques are
to some people as bad as the smell of garden fires?

if my memory serves me right at one time in sheffield Householders who was in the boundry of the sheffield city council could burn garden waste ONLY FROM at 6pm/18-00 .and there was a by-law stated to the fact that only garden waste. i think it came in just after the war when the estates were being built and people had hedges etc.But now im told every area housing office has there own rules on Garden Fires,but i seem to think the by-law is still standing because there are still coke fires in the houses due to the old miners coal concession etc . and the same by-law was brought in along with the boundry hedge ownership etc.

Originally posted by The Cycleracer
The Parkwood site poses a risk in my ways, rats, smell toxic waste i could go on but the reason the council has eventually listened and closed it is due to the fact that a new housing estate has been built over looking it and the newresidents have complained about the smell.

Bad news, Cycleracer.

I contacted Parkwood Landfill Action Group to verify if the landfill site was closed, but they told me it's still open. They're having an AGM on July 4th at Roe Lane Community Centre, at 6pm, if anyone is interested in attending.

News to me Abby, the drive is blocked and that tip is definately closed. Theres no access what so ever, though i have seen the local people dump old furniture out of there houses as it looks like it going to be picked up by someone, so maybe its shut to the public but the council are supplying a wagon to pick up the house clearances that are succuming at pressent due to the demolistion project and still taking the clutter there.

Originally posted by The Cycleracer
News to me Abby, the drive is blocked and that tip is definately closed. Theres no access what so ever, though i have seen the local people dump old furniture out of there houses as it looks like it going to be picked up by someone, so maybe its shut to the public but the council are supplying a wagon to pick up the house clearances that are succuming at pressent due to the demolistion project and still taking the clutter there.

I read somewhere that the site was closed for maintenance but due to re-open. Apparently there is a notice on the gates. Hasn't stopped some people just dumping stuff outside the gates though!

Originally posted by Abby
Yes I was thinking that some months ago! Couldn't new residents see/smell it when they viewed the show houses? But at least you say it is closed now (although I have not been able to verify this). But where new waste produced by the incinerator will be dumped, or what will happen to the existing landfill site, I don't know.

I don't wish to scaremonger, but I've read toxic waste at the landfill site could find its way downhill to the River Don

http://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/messenger/february2002/dumped.shtml

Would you believe the landfill site is next to a nature reserve? Only in Sheffield, eh!

This would depend on whwne the viewed the house originally I would think. From my experience of attending Parkwood college many years ago (which was where these new houses are now) I found that the smell was much more noticeable during the summer months and often became unbearable.