Bonfire Guidelines

If you must have a bonfire please follow these guidelines:-

• If you light a bonfire, ensure that the material to be burnt is dry. This will minimise the amount of smoke produced. Do not light a fire when the weather conditions might cause the smoke to travel into your neighbours' gardens or properties.
  
• Burn everything quickly in small piles. A quick hot fire will produce only the minimum amount of smoke.
  
• Position any bonfire as far away from buildings as possible. Don't light a fire if the wind will carry the smoke over the road
  
• Remember that smoke will hang in the air on a damp, windless day and in the evening around sunset.
  
• Take care to keep children away from a bonfire. Supervise burning as much as possible.
  
• Never leave a fire to smoulder, put it out with either water or soil.
  
• Remember, heaps of garden refuse provide a haven for small animals. Check before you light.
  
• Never add household rubbish, oil rags, rubber, plastics, aerosols or any other material which will create toxic fumes.
  
• Compost wherever possible.