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Coal for house heating was banned years ago, unless it was expensive, processed, smokeless stuff.
The UK, from the highland line to the south downs, is a vast coal field. But now we have closed all our mines. The last deep mine was capped off 18 months ago. We bought cheap coal, from Eastern Europe, but now, with only 9 coal fired power stations (we produce more solar energy than coal fired) which some days are not required to produce any electricity at all, we can supply coal from a few opencast mines and a small amount of imported coal.
Most homes are centrally heater with gas or oil fired heating, but the trend is a swing to electric heating(!). Wood burning stoves are just an addition, lit when guests are coming round, a middle class affectation. Hence the proposed ban.
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