Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Air pollution - N4 1BA - wc 23 Feb
Did everyone feel (smell? breathe?) it? End of February was pretty good - well at least for Harringay...
If you have been out and about over the past couple of nights, you will have noticed that normal 'business has resumed'. But I'll save that to report on next week - what fun!
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Permalink Reply by Jamie Harper
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In the Guardian today, Haringey among the 8 London boroughs threatened with legal action by the Stove Industry Association, a wood-burning stove lobby group.
From the original BMJ report:"Eight London boroughs—Croydon, Haringey, Islington, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond, Southwark, and Wandsworth—were threatened with legal action in late 2023 over a joint public awareness campaign on the harms of wood burning. The SIA argued that flyers stating that wood burners were “careless not cosy” had breached the UK’s advertising codes because they were dishonest, inaccurate, and not backed up by evidence. The trade group also objected to a cartoon of a smoke plume with an angry face, which it claimed was “excessively large” and too close to the ground."
"Tom Parkes, air quality programme manager for Camden Council, which leads the London Wood Burning Project, says, “It’s had quite a detrimental effect on local authorities’ confidence. There’s a degree of worry about what happens if we are challenged, even if we’re confident that the science backs up what we’re saying.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/05/lobbyists-send-...
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