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Potential new rules for UK households with wood burners have been branded "absurd" and "stupid" as people are left divided. Wood-burning stoves could face tighter restrictions under tough new rules from the Labour Party government.

Sources in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had told The Guardian that a consultation on how to cut pollution levels would form part of the plan.

The shake-up could include tighter controls on smoke control areas, which limit the types of fuel that can be used to 'smokeless' fuels that do not release smoke out of chimneys.

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It would effectively amount to a ban on older appliances and, in some areas, a ban on the use of wood-burning stoves

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