Some years ago I had a problem with a neighbour lighting bonfires in their garden during the day- not at the end of the garden but near our adjoining fence near the house. My daughter is asthmatic and was living with us so we had to keep all the windows closed (it was summer). This was crazy so we knocked on their door and asked if they would not do this and that they could have rubbish collected for free by the council. They seemed sympathetic but didn't put the fire out. So we wrote a very polite note with phone numbers etc for the collection service. Still the fires burned. I phoned the council-they sent someone round, spoke to the neighbours and gave us leaflet- a green leaflet entitled 'Bonfires'. The rules WERE -one bonfire, once a month at dusk and burning for one hour and only garden waste.Except for 5th November. This did the trick (except for the abuse we got from the neighbour) When we had that lovely spell of warm weather in March this year we called the environment team again for another long-burning horrible fire down the road. The person on the other end of the phone seemed to suggest that all those sensible rules in the leaflet had been relaxed- unfortunately. (There is no need to burn stuff get the Council to collect- it could be builders because they would have to pay to dispose of stuff)