Burn Better, Breathe Better: Reduce the negative impact your stove or open fire can have on your health

​Liverpool City Council are supporting the Burn Better, Breathe Better campaign to highlight the potential health risks from the incorrect use of indoor stoves and fires.

Find out how to burn better with your indoor stove or open fire. Make sure you:

  • Check it regularly
  • Sweep it professionally
  • Feed it the right fuels

Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk to public health.

Using a stove or open fire at home is a major contributor of a pollutant called fine particulate matter (known as PM2.5). These tiny particles can damage your lungs and other organs and can be harmful to your health.

Making small changes to how you burn can provide benefits such as:

  • Improving the air we all breathe by reducing the amount of pollution produced.
  • Keeping you and your family safe by reducing the risk of chimney fires.
  • Helping you get the most out of your stove or open fire so that it performs better – by using less fuel to produce more heat

All of Liverpool City Council is a Smoke Control Area and therefore:

  • you cannot release smoke from a chimney
  • you can only burn authorised fuel, unless you use an appliance approved by Defra

Today's
Air Quality

Our handy map makes it easy to see what the current and historic air pollution levels are like in your area by bringing you the very latest information from air quality monitoring conducted by Liverpool City Council and Defra.

Screenshot of live air quality map

Image above is visual only. Click link to see live map. Air quality levels in Liverpool sourced from Liverpool City Council  and Defra.
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