I quite like the smell of burning wood.I'm fine with having a fire to keep warm in an emergency but they get used all the time, where do you draw the line.
New builds shouldn't need the same level of heating, coal and wood are polluters, not so bad in the countryside but towns and villages on a cold day all with a fire going makes the air horrible.
If I was building new in the countryside you can be certain I would be trying hard to be self-sufficient in power anyway so as not to rely on a power company, even if it involved a generator, common sense again.
We should concentrate on providing cheap reliable power to everyone.