Short answer: No!
In 2019/20 national newspaper’s ran a headline which read “Stoves Banned”, which lead many people to believe that all stoves had been banned, what it should have said is “Some Stoves Banned!” The article went on to explain the new government guidelines from 2022 all stoves must be tested and achieve certain efficiencies, if they didn’t reach this efficiency they would be banned, this does not include stoves that have already been installed prior to that date. Most companies that supply stoves have them tested by independent DEFRA approved testing centres. They also said that you must be registered to sell wood and coal, which also had to comply with regulations. All good rules apart from one. Which says if you have stock of untested stoves, you are still allowed to sell them. 3 good rules, and one bad one! It meant that companies with warehouses full of them, shipped in mainly from China or India could still sell them. Now you have a situation where retailers won’t buy them because of the rules, so it now leaves the big importers in a situation where they have stoves to sell them and have flooded the internet trying to get rid of them. There is a good reason they are cheap!
– William Evans