Enviromental Health update to Love Your Doorstep.
A visit was carried out to the site today mentioned in the below context, and works are ongoing to extinguish the combusting mound of compost. Environmental Health can confirm the bailing of the straw is being completed today. All bails will be cleared by Friday and then the field will be cultivated early next week for the mound to be distributed on this land. Due to the size of the mound, this is the safest way to extinguish. Another visit is due to early next week and Environmental Health is confident that the mound will be resolved. They will keep us updated.
Burning from residents identified on the 28th & 29th July and posted onto Love Your Doorstep - this site is still being looked into. LYDS believe it’s a different site and visits and checks were also made today.
This has been a long and complex investigation that has relied on the determination of local residents, the work of Enfield Council officers and continued community reporting.
Over the past year, Love Your Doorstep has received hundreds of reports from residents across EN1 and EN2 describing strong burning odours, often overnight and into the early hours of the morning. Every report has been passed on to Enfield Council’s Environmental Protection Team to help build a picture of when and where the incidents are occurring.
Earlier this year, one site was identified following information gathered by local residents working with Love Your Doorstep, leading to enforcement action. Now, Enfield Council has confirmed that officers have identified another site where they believe emissions may be coming from.
In an update provided to residents, Environmental Protection Officer John West confirmed that patrol visits were carried out and a notice has been served. Material believed to be causing the smoke emissions is being removed, and the site will be revisited next week as part of the council’s ongoing monitoring.
We would like to thank everyone who has continued to report incidents, often during the early hours of the morning. Those reports have played an important role in helping officers investigate what has been an extremely difficult issue to trace.
We would also like to recognise the hard work of Enfield Council’s Environmental Protection Team, particularly John West, for his continued communication with residents throughout the investigation. We also welcome the support shown by the council’s new administration, including Council Leader Cllr Alessandro Georgiou and Cabinet Member for Environment Cllr Maria Alexandrou, who have backed ongoing action to address residents’ concerns.
While this latest development is encouraging, the investigation is not yet complete. Residents are still reporting burning odours in some areas, and officers continue to monitor the situation.
If you experience the burning smell, please continue to report it to Enfield Council and let us know through Love Your Doorstep. Every report helps build the evidence needed to identify patterns and support further investigations.
We will continue to keep residents updated as we receive further information.
We would also like to advise local residents, there is no cover up, this is an on going investigation. local residents have been assisting Enfield Councils Environmental team. The issue is the site has kept moving.
For urgent environmental health emergencies outside normal hours, contact Enfield Council's main out-of-hours control number at 020 8379 1000
Conversation on Love Your Doorstep 24th July 2026
