• Make housing developers be transparent in Birmingham
    Current planning law states that if a developer will make less than 20% profit on a new development, they can ignore a council's regulations about building affordable and social housing. Leaked documents from several developers have shown that the maths they use to work out their profit margins are purposefully misleading, allowing them to claim they will make less than 20% profit on a development by undervaluing the prices of the houses they will sell and over-costing the labour. To combat this Islington, Greenwich, Lambeth and Bristol councils have introduced a policy that forces developers "viability assessments" to be made public. By bringing these dodgy maths into the public domain, Councils, campaigning groups and individuals will be able to hold developers to account and force them to use more honest maths.
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    Created by angela kuszyk
  • Make housing developers be transparent in Manchester
    Current planning law states that if a developer will make less than 20% profit on a new development, they can ignore a council's regulations about building affordable and social housing. Leaked documents from several developers have shown that the maths they use to work out their profit margins are purposefully misleading, allowing them to claim they will make less than 20% profit on a development by undervaluing the prices of the houses they will sell and over-costing the labour. To combat this Islington, Greenwich, Lambeth and Bristol councils have introduced a policy that forces developers "viability assessments" to be made public. By bringing these dodgy maths into the public domain, Councils, campaigning groups and individuals will be able to hold developers to account and force them to use more honest maths.
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    Created by Elias Symeonakis
  • Temple Newsam Go Ape - Say YES
    Temple Newsam Park is a free public park to be enjoyed by everyone. Should these plans go ahead, the facility will enhance the park and bring more visitor from Leeds and further afield to the House and Farm. There may be a requirement to improve car parks but the overall impact of traffic in the area should not increase significantly. Groups are staggered when starting the tree top adventure course, therefore they will be staggered when arriving and leaving. The adventure course will bring both tourist revenue and employment to the area. As can be seen in the picture on this petition, a very small proportion of the estate will be used for this venture. It is also being situation in what is already a noisy section of the park so noise pollution should have zero to no impact on the peacefulness enjoyed in other areas of the estate.
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    Created by Carol Quinn
  • School Holiday over charging by companies
    It is very important for parents and carers as they are being charged more by companies at a particular time of year (school Holidays) when the prices are cheaper at other times through the year.
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    Created by Peter Berry
  • Block Starbucks on Campus - Demand Ethical Providers - Staffordshire University
    Starbucks are: TAX DODGERS http://fortune.com/2016/03/11/apple-google-taxes-eu/ UNETHICAL http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/starbucks-most-unethical-coffee-chain-in-the-uk UNHEALTHY https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/starbucks-coffee-and-your-health-bucking-starbucks-experience On campus services should focus on value for Students, fair and ethical trading practices and support for the local community. Not to support a company with a history of ethical and environmental abuses, one which aims to drive out local business and which profits from horrible foreign working conditions.
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    Created by Danny Bee
  • Make Pearson change transgender certificate policy.
    Requesting a GRC or doctor's letter is in breach of the Equality Act 2010. "By changing their name trans people automatically have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment under the Equality Act 2010" (uktrans.info - http://uktrans.info/attachments/article/292/transqualcerts.pdf), creating the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. This effectively means that Pearson's requirements are discriminatory, as well as in breach of the Equality Act 2010. Trans individuals already experience enough discrimination trying to live life day-to-day, and several people I have contacted have also experienced discrimination at Pearson's hands. It's time to change to a level playing field so that we, as trans individuals, receive the qualifications we worked hard to gain, in the correct, accurate gender and name.
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    Created by Roch McLean
  • Stop bullying app SimSimi
    SimSimi has quickly become one of the U.K.’s most popular apps. Yet, this chat-box is often used to bully others. In fact, it allows users to anonymously programme a series of messages – regardless of how abusive, violent or explicit these may be – so that they are received by the targeted victim as soon as s/he logs into the app and searches their name. Due to the anonymity of these messages, it is next to impossible to hold bullies accountable. For these reasons, schools and even police forces in the U.K. have had to resort to sending letters to parents in order to warn them about the app. Even though SimSimi is restricted to people who are 17 years old or older, many children who are much younger than that have been able to download it. Most parents are unaware of the fact that ‘Simi Simi’ is dangerous for their children and that they could be at risk of bullying, which is bound to have serious implications on them. SimSimi must be banned before it causes even more damage. A few years ago the website Ask.fm was banned – but only after a few teenagers had committed suicide following the bullying they experienced using it. We must be quicker this time to ensure the same does not happen again.
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    Created by belinda chrossan
  • Don’t use palm oil in banknotes
    The Bank of England is weighing up whether to use palm oil or coconut oil in their new banknotes. Palm oil plantations are currently a leading cause of rainforest destruction, destroying the homes of endangered Orangutans who are treated like pests and killed to aid the palm oil industry. The Bank of England faces a simple decision, to use destructive palm oil, or opt for a more sustainable alternative such as coconut oil. This decision could have a ripple effect in other countries too as they follow suit and produce new types of bank notes.
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    Created by Atul S
  • Protection for Autistic citizens against bullying and prejudice
    autistic people are a huge contribution to our society, in many ways they are superior to so-called normal people and they deserve our respect. Many of our brightest minds and our greatest achievers are autistic and autistic people need to be protected
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    Created by Paul Farrell
  • Make housing developers be transparent in Camden
    Current planning law states that if a developer will make less than 20% profit on a new development, they can ignore a council's regulations about building affordable and social housing. Leaked documents from several developers have shown that the maths they use to work out their profit margins are purposefully misleading, allowing them to claim they will make less than 20% profit on a development by undervaluing the prices of the houses they will sell and over-costing the labour. To combat this Islington, Greenwich, Lambeth and Bristol councils have introduced a policy that forces developers "viability assessments" to be made public. By bringing these dodgy maths into the public domain, Councils, campaigning groups and individuals will be able to hold developers to account and force them to use more honest maths. Resulting in more affordable and social housing for Camden.
    2,199 of 3,000 Signatures
    Created by Una, Rima and Graham
  • Subway: pay your staff properly!
    Some branches of Subway, the chain of sandwich shops, recruit staff to be so-called "Apprentice Sandwich Artists" - often for less than £4 an hour, sometimes for as long as 14 months. By claiming that the staff are apprentices, bosses avoid paying the legally required minimum wage. But these aren't real apprenticeships. Young people hired as apprentices are doing almost exactly the same work as their co-workers who are paid at the legal minimum or above. It's not a training scheme, its exploitation.
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    Created by Sarah Collins
  • Abolish zero hours contracts
    People will know how many hours they are working and how much wages they will receive, so they can budget efficiently
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    Created by Jeanette Burgess