Air Pollution
Common Questions

 

Servicing and maintenance of equipment. Refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump equipment which is stationary at all times when in operation. Commercial and domestic refrigerators and freezers which are stationary at all times when in operation. Portable refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump equipment. (a) City & Guilds Certificate in Handling Refrigerants Scheme 2078[11]. (b) Construction Industry Training Board Safe Handling of Refrigerants Reference 206710[12]. Dismantling of equipment. Refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump equipment (a) which is stationary at all times when in operation; and (b) which can only be dismantled at the place at which the equipment is used.(a) City & Guilds Certificate in Handling Refrigerants Scheme 2078.(b) Construction Industry Training Board Safe Handling of Refrigerants Reference 206710. Decommissioning of equipment. Fire protection systems and fire extinguishers. British Fire Protection Systems Association Competence Certificate Course Class I [13].

An abatement notice served can be served on the owners or occupiers of a property from which a private or statutory nuisance arises, warning them of the intention to enter on the land in order to abate the nuisance or requiring the abatement of the nuisance by a specified date.

Dark smoke is defined in the Clean Air Act as smoke whose density exceeds a standard shading on a chart referred to as the Ringelmann Chart. The chart is used to visually compare the intensity of colour against the printed shadings. Any smoke that is more than light grey in colour could potentially exceed this level and render the person causing the smoke to prosecution.

Although it would be difficult for a local Council to prove that dark smoke had been emitted, if the smoke caused complaints, the Council could require measurement devices to be fitted or could take action under Statutory Nuisance.