The Defra Solid Fuel Burning Consultation

Today's episode, we're going to start by kicking off and talking about the very recent DEFRA consultation that came out.

It's actually now closed.

By the time we air this episode, it's been closed.

HITAS have given a pretty lengthy, lengthy response, and that's Charlie Cooley.

who's with us now on the ones and twos behind the scenes.

Charlie's job was to collate so much information, and he's done a brilliant job of doing that.

We really needed to collate a lot of that information so that we could, you know, we're taking into account the views of our members, we're taking into account the views of our technical staff, the views of our commercial staff, the general public that talk to us a lot as well.

We had to take into account as much as we possibly could.

So we're going to talk about actually what that is consultation consisted of.

We're going to talk about some of our responses.

Some of you may know, I'm not really from this industry.

So I've been now with Heatas and Woodshore as part of the Cleaner Safer group for nine months, and I'm still very much on my learning journey.

So what better way for me to document and to learn than actually just do the podcast, just record it so you can hear me ask some silly questions.

So if I do ask some silly questions, it's probably because I just don't know the answer to it.

I think one of the biggest strengths you can have is knowing your weaknesses.

So I'm going to bring in some technical expertise.

We're going to talk about the response we made.

We're going to talk about why we did some certain things.

And I'm going to question.

I'm going to do the thing that makes our marketing team nervous.

I'm going to question why we do certain things and why we don't say certain things.

Because there's always reasons and there's always deeper reasons that I don't know about.

There's history that I don't know about that we can go into, hopefully.

We always have the opportunity.

The beauty of the podcast is we can edit out anything that... that doesn't get in.

Today's episode, we're going to start by kicking off and talking about the very recent DEFRA consultation that came out.

It's actually now closed.

By the time we air this episode, it's been closed.

HITAS have given a pretty lengthy, lengthy response, and that's Charlie Cooley.

who's with us now on the ones and twos behind the scenes.

Charlie's job was to collate so much information, and he's done a brilliant job of doing that.

We really needed to collate a lot of that information so that we could, you know, we're taking into account the views of our members, we're taking into account the views of our technical staff, the views of our commercial staff, the general public that talk to us a lot as well.

We had to take into account as much as we possibly could.

So we're going to talk about actually what that is consultation consisted of.

We're going to talk about some of our responses.

Some of you may know, I'm not really from this industry.

So I've been now with Heatas and Woodshore as part of the Cleaner Safer group for nine months, and I'm still very much on my learning journey.

So what better way for me to document and to learn than actually just do the podcast, just record it so you can hear me ask some silly questions.

So if I do ask some silly questions, it's probably because I just don't know the answer to it.

I think one of the biggest strengths you can have is knowing your weaknesses.

So I'm going to bring in some technical expertise.

We're going to talk about the response we made.

We're going to talk about why we did some certain things.

And I'm going to question.

I'm going to do the thing that makes our marketing team nervous.

I'm going to question why we do certain things and why we don't say certain things.

Because there's always reasons and there's always deeper reasons that I don't know about.

There's history that I don't know about that we can go into, hopefully.

We always have the opportunity.

The beauty of the podcast is we can edit out anything that... that doesn't get in.