We recognise that an effective response to the horrific events at Grenfell Tower is not forthcoming from the Central Government or the Local Council, and that therefore the responsibility for safety of Londoners, the old, the poor, the young and everyone else falls to the relevant authorities with the largest democratic mandate from us. We therefore call on the Greater London Authority, and it's head the Mayor of London as well as London Councils to fit out all high rise blocks in Greater London that do not have fire sprinkler systems installed with fire sprinklers as soon as practically possible by the end of this year and if necessary using public funds. We also ask that the London Assembly to hold the relevant authorities to account on this matter, to make sure that all Londoners feel safe enough to sleep in their homes by the end of the year.

My nan has lived on the 12th floor of a Shepherd's Bush Tower block for 40 years. She is 77, if a fire broke out in the flats on her floor or higher she couldn't be reached. She walks with a walker and wouldn't make it down the stairs. Who would save her ??? In light of the Grenfell Fire it's now More important than ever. The firefighters did an Amazing Job but they didn't have the resources to reach the top. This isn't their fault it's due to cuts, those victims had to wait for a crane from Surrey!

There is much evidence that "the political decision to appoint inquiries into public crises is strongly influenced by short-term blame avoidance considerations, media salience and government popularity." (Reflection in the Shadow of Blame: When Do Politicians Appoint Commissions of Inquiry? - The British Journal of Political Science, Volume 40, Issue 3 July 2010, pp. 613-634). An event such as the Grenfell Tower fire, with its clear implications of Government Minister involvement and possible culpability, requires an inquest which is truly independent from government; not set up and controlled by government. The right to life under Article 2 of the Human Rights Act requires that an effective and proper investigation be carried out into all deaths caused by the state. In particular the right requires that such an investigation must be: * Independent; * Effective; * Prompt; * Open to public scrutiny; and* * Support the participation of the next-of-kin. It is clear from historical evidence that public inquiries do not achieve these requirements. Since the appointment of a public inquiry is typically made by government ministers, events that involve allegations of blame on the part of the relevant minister are less likely to be investigated by a public inquiry

The public bowling greens in the Trafford area and indeed any other area provide an opportunity for people of all ages to participate in a sport which although quite gentle provides valuable exercise and fresh air to people taking part. Generally the game is played by older people and it provides a much needed physical and social activity to a number of people in the community. The greens have not been maintained efficiently and have been treated incorrectly with weed killer and fertiliser. The cutting of them has become very erratic and insufficient. It appears that the people doing the work on the greens are simply gardeners and not green keepers they need to be trained to look after greens correctly to provide greens suitable to play bowls on. Recent cost cutting exercises have resulted in a rapid decline in the condition of the public greens and this needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency.

I could have died.

Each year, 5,000 children under 16 are seriously injured or die on Britain’s roads. The incident rate for children peaks between 8am and 9am, when they are travelling to school, and again at 3pm when they are on their way home. Without the lollipop/ school crossing patrol service, the community will be put at risk as they try to cross such a busy road at peak times to and from school.

In February 2017 after months of negotiations trying to avoid compulsory redundancies triggered by deep budget cuts, EHRC management sent e-mails to 8 workers work addresses informing them they were being made redundant whilst they were taking part in a lawful one day protest strike. The EHRC still has over 47 equivalent vacancies these displaced workers could easily fill, but has so far refused to do so. What is so shocking is this employer also happens to be the UK's UN recognised guardian of our Human Rights! With Brexit uncertainty and challenges to Human Rights law being suggested, we need a strengthened fully resourced EHRC to defend the most vulnerable from discrimination and attack.

Imagine that pile of rubbish pictured creating a corresponding mountain of tax revenue from whomever is unnecessarily putting non-recyclable materials into the supply chain. In Germany, the supermarkets themselves have bins near the checkout area into which customers are tacitly invited to place their unwanted packaging items for the retailers to dispose of. We need to minimise the use of non-recyclable packaging in retail, especially our fresh food. I used to work at a labelling factory: there are other viable ways of packaging, tagging, labelling and barcoding products that do not entail use of non-recyclable products. Nor is there any need for food retailers to ask customers to use plastic bags to package products such as loose vegetables in for weighing at tills (they need to be transparent for the person on the till to identify what they're weighing). It used to be that loose items would be weighed by staff in the same way as at their delis, where barcoded labels would be produced for the till staff to scan at checkout. More recyclable products - not film, tetrapack, or anything else that is not widely recyclable - should be used. I also want to see a ban on the use of any non-recyclable disposable gloves used in food retailer outlets such as a well known sandwich retailer, whose staff seem to change gloves each time they touch meat and are then trained to put on new gloves when they make another sandwich: there must be a better way. Retailers could be taxed for the amount of packaging waste they put into the system , and for the amount of non-recyclable packaging they are bringing into the system from their plants and the products they bulk buy and sell on. This would reduce non-biodegradable waste in landfill, and encourage reduction of unnecessary packaging - I don't want film around a DVD or a cucumber - which are uniform in price anyway - so that the supermarket can put a barcode on that rather than the products directly. The UK should especially given the Brexit choice, prioritise innovation in packaging technology that could be sold to the world instead of perpetuating the inertia that seems to plague politicians on green issues (possibly for fear of upsetting sectors that lobby and contribute to the economy, and perhaps also donate to political parties). For example Amazon have reduced their non-recyclable packaging (although they do not apparently pay enough tax): we should take the principles and positive elements of what such global corporations do and apply them more widely, and look into other countries' green packaging solutions. Ministers should stop their myopia and short-termist electioneering campaigns over-focusing on natural greed and our desire to preserve individual wealth, and look at ways to boost our economy, further the manufacture and use of green technologies, reduce waste in landfill and increase tax revenue from the massive national and international corporations controlling our food industry and pricing. The reality is that all the larger supermarkets are trying to convince us that they are ethical and have a corporate social responsibility, and this would be a good way of demonstrating that they mean it. Not everyone I know on social media has awareness of green organisations trying to further this project as a common aim, but would support the idea of such a tax: even if they do not believe in recycling, the vast majority would like to have less recycling to do, and would agree with there being fewer non-recyclables in the supply chain and the notion that corporations should be paying more tax. Green issues and tax revenues affect us all - many excuse their failure to recycle because they say our species is hurtling toward its doom in any event. It is exactly that sort of attitude that is damaging our world: we should expend our energy on ways to save ourselves instead: if we can get to the moon why can't we stop over-relying on non-recyclable packaging?

COMMUNITY PROJECT – WEST EDINBURGH Over the years the local community has started to diminish with an increase in crime and drugs and a reduction in places for our children to go, which doesn't involve them hanging around the streets, getting in to trouble, or playing computer games indoors. With the increase of housing being built for the lower income family and population growing in the South West of Edinburgh - with another housing development being built in Longstone as we speak (Place for People, planning application 15/00687/PND) I want to re-engage our community and open sports and fitness facility with a "access for all" mentality, for adults and children alike. Over the past 12 months, I have been engaged in an attempt to obtain a local space, available for long lease at a reasonable low yield rate as a boxing and fitness gym in our local community. I have been involved in sport for a number of years and have seen first-hand the benefit it can offer to our youth. With a have a huge passion for sports and fitness and seeing a positive change in the community. We would engage with Schools, and offer affordable sports holiday camps. We would foster our community relations offering youth groups for young kids who want to try a new sport, encouraging them to understand not just the physical element of this, but the nutritional, mental and lifestyle element of being involved in sports. I have started this petition as I have come up against a substantial issue. The main problems are that there are no community spaces available, we have no buildings which haven't been knocked down to make housing or which haven't been sold to the residential or commercial market. Without a thought for what facilities these growing communities will use! The local Edinburgh council have advised that it against the policy of the Council to provide spaces at low rental as they must make as much revenue from this as possible. Commercial or privately owned properties are asking circa £1000 pm for rent. Not including any utilities or equipment. This would mean charging membership fees if £30-£40 to use the facility, which completely defeats the purpose of the project. Ideally we would like to turn the club into a charitable organisation once established, but this wouldn't be a viable option with a private lease! It’s just so costly! Throughout these last months I have worked alongside Boxing Scotland, the government run organisation which we would affiliate with. I have engaged with the Lord Provest and MSPs as well as the local council. However community spaces are now few and far between leaving us with only high yield commercial properties available for rent. Boxing Scotland are on board with helping us apply for funding for gym equipment and subsidiary items but we can’t progress with any of this until we find a space which is going to stand the test of time. I know that health, reduction in obesity or drug and alcohol related issues, mental health, wellbeing and a reduction in youth crime must be on the agenda of our Government. We must want to see people taking pride in their communities and helping our youth become more than just statistics of their surroundings. I know that there must be a way to make this project a reality. I would like to add at this point that the facility (if we are able to find or even build a space) would be in the heart of the community, servicing areas such as Wester Hailes; Longstone; Redhall; Murrayburn; Westburn; Sighthill; Parkhead; Saughton Mains & Broomhouse. A large and growing community of 10,000+ I reach out in the hope that we can work together on this project to build a strong community for our future generations and growing population. Please sign this petition.

The demographic has changed drastically over the last few years with lots of families and young couples moving into the area from other parts of Bristol (and London). Everyone I speak to; friends, family, neighbours and fellow parents at the school gates agree that this investment is long-overdue. We need a pub that appeals to the many, not the few 😉

Gravesham Borough Council want us, the residents, to take any excess to the tip ourselves. This is NOT what we pay our council tax for. This will be a requirement for ALL families, every single week. Some do not even have cars, what will happen to the rubbish then? There will be MORE rubbish on the streets, and an increase in rats and foxes attacking refuge. There needs to be a change, this has not been thought out well at all, and is nothing short of cutting corners to save cost.

Wensum Lodge was once well-known as a thriving Norfolk County Council-run arts hub for the Eastern region. It is still the only place in the region, and certainly in Norwich, to offer accredited qualifications in many of the creative courses run there. These are all due to be cut in September 2017, with only 3 months notice. The recent numerous managerial staff changes and funding squeezes have caused problems at the Lodge, which might be ameliorated were they able to attract more paying students - something which they can do if their online presence and communications strategy improved, and if they continued along the accreditation route. Current students enrolled on courses at Wensum Lodge are often making career changes, or are developing skills in the creative industries which they then plan to use to undertake freelance work - all of which add to the creative life of the city. The value of hosting accredited courses is significant: they are instrumental in training individuals that have allowed our region to develop a strong reputation for the creative arts, and they facilitate the development of careers in those areas. This makes a positive impact on multiple levels: for the creative economy of the area - financial and reputational, not to mention the mental health of students taking these courses. Cutting courses that are poorly advertised and administered makes very little sense when the courses themselves are highly subscribed. On a practical level, some classes could be relocated to more appropriate providers, but the arts courses that are offered cannot. For example, the nearest places offering accredited Ceramics courses were in London, and then almost exclusively in the northwest of the UK. What Wensum Lodge should be doing is investing in publicity and learning support networks (computing, and online presence, amongst other things) in order to encourage more paying students rather than cutting classes that are popular and a valid part of the Eastern region's creative artistic ecosystem.