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STOP TESCO BREAKING THE LAWTesco's huge delivery trucks repeatedly break the law on a daily basis. This forces traffic onto the wrong side of the road endangering other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists. It also causes congestion slowing down and hindering emergency vehicles and public transport (buses). Camden Council's current policy of fining the company is simply not credible nor is it effective and action needs to be taken to ensure Tesco HGVs are no longer a serious risk or hinderance to the lives of citizens.120 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Sebastian Wocker
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Fossil Fuel Free Mole ValleyOil & gas companies are looking to explore for more fossil fuels within Mole Valley even though Climate Change scientists and most world powers demand that we move away from our dependency on them to renewables. To be looking for more fossil fuels at a time when we have already found over 5 times more fuel than we can potentially use is utter madness and criminal.1,160 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Chris Crook
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Save Golborne RoadGolborne Road is one of the few remaining authentic markets in West London. You can still get a bargain antique, a good piece of vintage and a tasty meal from the food stalls and cafes. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea wants to gentrify it by widening the pavements and adding a complicated drainage system. A long period of disruption will harm people's livelihoods and could change the area forever. All of us love this unique place for its friendliness and sense of community. We refuse to see this spirit replaced with chain stores and expensive boutiques. If you want to save Golborne Road as we know it, please sign this petition.4,841 of 5,000 SignaturesCreated by Bella Freud
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Keep Victoria Embankment free from parking charges and orders.Victoria Embankment Nottingham is "not for profit land" has been given to the Citizens of Nottingham and the Locality (and visitors from further afield) for their mental and physical health & well-being, somewhere to escape all the pressures of life, including time and financial pressures. This Breathing Space should remain an oasis of unpressurised serenity. Despite some cars abusing the facility there is still plenty of space for Park Users to park up free and enjoy the simple Green Spaces. This highly protected Covenanted Land, all Gifted to the City, must be preserved from becoming another Income Generating Scheme.680 of 800 SignaturesCreated by Jonathan Hughes
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Help stop a fatality. We need a traffic signal zebra Crossing to McDonald's in MildenhallSince the opening of McDonald's large numbers of children and the public are risking their lives crossing the road to get to McDonald's from Mildenhall by foot or bike. It is widely known children do not have the ability to judge car speed and hence this situation is serious. The road is extremely busy and dangerous with traffic exiting the roundabout at speed and there is a real and true danger of a fatality due to this. .238 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Rachel Royal
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CHANGE UK PLANNING LAWSIn the last couple of years, through no fault of my own, l became homeless. I am one of the lucky ones in the sense that l have a piece of land. I moved onto it because l had nowhere else to go. During the last 18 months l have been threatened with eviction, surveillance and have suffered abusive and intimidating behaviour from the enforcement officer involved. Plus complaints from various people who, not only have all they need, but also did not even bother to find out anything about me or my situation. Although l have now been given a council bedsit this is shocking and absurd. Someone else who really needed it could have benefited from it if l had been allowed to stay on my field. I am not disturbing anyone and my shepherds hut cannot be seen as it is tucked away behind trees. We have a huge housing problem in this country and the number of homeless people is escalating out of control. While l fully appreciate that, as the housing officer said 'we cannot have the countryside littered with caravans' (who said anything about caravans??), the countryside is already 'littered' with some truly monstrous buildings and, of course if it suits the council they will grant planning for anything. If the planning laws were relaxed and councils worked WITH people instead of AGAINST them, this 'littering' should and can be avoided. Planning restrictions have now been lifted for agricultural barns, but this has meant such an increase in price that most people can't afford to buy them. Once again it is the few rich elite who can. I know many people who want to live on their own piece of land but are unable to do so. This doesn't mean to say that they are unwilling to pay their council tax, as some people are so quick to judge that they are; they are 'normal', resourceful people just wanting a slightly different way of life. What's so wrong with that? Please sign this petition to lobby Brandon Lewis and his colleagues to change planning law to allow people to live on a piece of land if they choose to do so. Thank you.20,677 of 25,000 SignaturesCreated by Jodi Canti
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Save Our Skyline GlasgowThe Council have created a fantastic entertainment area. Glaswegians are proud of our Hydro, our Crane, our Rotunda and our Armadillo. The iconic views of the SECC plaza are used to promote our city and are seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors to conferences and concerts. Let’s stop this monstrous hotel and Save our Skyline in Glasgow.1,085 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Pamela Milne
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Hackney school playgrounds are not for saleHackney has its eyes on growing land values in this fast gentrifying London borough. It plans to demolish three primary schools and carve up the plots, building private homes for sale on designated education land - selling off the playgrounds and digging up the trees to build luxury flats. The new schools will be rebuilt on a fraction of the original sites, some with twice as many pupils squeezed in. The number of private luxury flats crammed in doesn’t leave room for much else. At the first proposed school, the play spaces are on the roof, in permanent shadow of the towers. The residents will be able to look right down on top of the school. As for the classrooms, there aren’t many windows. The corridors are internal, artificially lit rat-runs. The first proposed school is opposite a park, but south-facing, high-rise residential towers will block all the natural daylight. Ironically, residential towers on this site were demolished 20 years ago as a sign of progress. My son’s current school, Nightingale Primary, is not perfect. But it has dignity as a school, and room to play: There’s a grassy hill with enough bushes and trees for a game of hide and seek, plus a bee hive, kitchen garden, football pitch and three surfaced play areas, one for nursery, one for reception and one for everyone else. All of this will be sold off to build flats that likely will be sold for 'investment' - it may be that no one actually even lives there. Children spend 30 per cent of their life in school, with profound effects on their health and development. A 2007 Danish study showed that fresh air ventilation rates are linked to pupil performance. In a study of 2,111 Spanish schoolchildren, time spent in (not near) green spaces reduced behavioural and emotional problems, reducing hyperactivity and improving ADHD scores. A six-year American study on 905 Massachusetts elementary schools found pupils in schools with more ‘greenness’ scored higher in standardised tests. Chinese scientists discovered a 23 per cent reduction in shortsightedness among children who spend an additional 40 minutes in the sun. In a wealthy city such as London, there is no excuse for such poor stewardship of a land asset that, once sold, will be gone forever. With the shortage of school places, we will need education land to build on. We once battery-farmed hens until it was found to be too cruel. Are we going to battery-farm our children? Please help us stop the Hackney Learning Trust.1,706 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Christine Murray
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Duke of Westminster's destruction of a historic timber yard in LondonThe wealthiest Englishman in this country, the Duke of Westminster, whose property company, the Grosvenor Estate, made half a billion pounds gross profit in their last financial year, want to redevelop six small independent galleries on the Pimlico Road, London, two of which have been trading from the same galleries for 50 years between them. The proposed redevelopment will oust many from their homes, demolishing their small 19th century galleries, retaining the facades, to create three vast showrooms by incorporating a 175 year old timber yard, the last remaining timber yard from the early Victorian period still in use today for its intended purpose. -- Please see attached articles: www.thepimlicoroad.com/newsons-yard NEW ARTICLE: http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2016/jan/27/pimlico-dealers-protest-against-redevelopment/ https://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/sigh-more-luxury-flats-pimlico-this-time/ http://homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/news/duke-westminster-gives-pimlico-small-shopkeepers-boot-make-way-large-stores-and-luxury-flats http://www.thepimlicoroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Pimlico-Development-A-Traders-Point-of-view_edited-2.jpeg World Of Interiors article on the Timber Yard by Phillip Davies 'Logging the Past' October 2015 RELATED CONTENT: http://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/02/the-creeping-plague-of-ghastly-facadism/1,269 of 2,000 SignaturesCreated by Thomas Johnson
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Don't Close Church StreetHounslow Council has invited a small number of residents from Church Street, North Street, Park Road and the roads accessed by those streets to have their say on the planned closure of Church Street to vehicles. This is your opportunity to provide your view. The Twickenham Road is heavily congested with 18,000 vehicles and cyclists using it every day and is already full to capacity according to Hounslow Council’s own traffic report. The proposal to close Church Street will push up to 2,015 more vehicles onto the Twickenham Road and South Street during rush hour times, gridlocking the road and reducing pedestrian and cyclist visibility. It will also increase pollution in the area. There is already significant local concern about traffic management on the Twickenham Road, including the use of roundabouts, the no-right turn from Spur Road onto the London Road, the Twickenham Road junction with Park Road and the junction at the bottom of Worton Road. Church Street is only one of the many roads affected by these issues. Five schools (Smallberry Green, Isleworth Town, Gumley House, St Mary’s and the Blue School) and West Middlesex Hospital are located on this stretch of road. The roads immediately adjoining the Twickenham Road (St John’s, Linkfield, Amhurst, the Teesdales, Worple, Algar, Byfield) are already subject to considerable rat running. With delays on the Twickeham Road and South Street expected to increase by 142% upon closure, even more frustrated drivers are likely to make their way onto our residential streets. Whilst the emergency services make their way through most things, the gridlock will likely affect response times. Hounslow Council has said that the proposal to close Church Street on 7 December is a “temporary trial” of 18 Months to see if road users change their “travelling habits”. But how can the parents and children of the five schools on these roads together with hospital staff and patients “change their traveling habits”? Local residents will still need to get about and people will still want to visit and use the amenities of Syon Park. Hounslow Council has said that it will not stop the “trial” once they have started it but confirm that the closure will cause significant disruption. Our argument is that Hounslow Council has to look at the area as a whole and take all of the above factors into consideration. Please show your support and sign this petition to make sure that your voice is heard.2,189 of 3,000 SignaturesCreated by Allison Stevens
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FOUR WINDS GARAGE A148 ROUNDABOUTIn the 18 years I have lived in Norfolk there have been a substantial number of accidents that have resulted in death and serious injury on the A148 due to poor visibility and failure to give way. There have been two serious accidents at this junction in the last week and I have also been personally affected by this issue when my parents were involved in a crash in the same location a few years ago. On the 14th of May 2006 a pedestrian died after an accident and on the 1st of March 2010 a woman died and two others were seriously injured in a collision with a JCB tractor. This is just two of many more fatal crashes on the crossroad and just two of the many people who have been killed. The crossroad is far too dangerous and I do not want to see more people lose their lives and loved ones. A roundabout would calm traffic and certainly reduce accidents.415 of 500 SignaturesCreated by Chloe Gascoigne
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No Gas Works East LothianA large agricultural anaerobic digestion plant is planned in East Lothian, between Longniddry and Ballencrieff on the B1377. The plant will convert energy crops and agricultural by products into gas which will be fed into the national grid. It will be the largest agricultural (non-food) in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK, three times the size of the current largest agricultural plant. We believe the plant will have a detrimental effect on the local environment, and pose serious risks to wildlife. Other issues such as increased HGV traffic, noise, and odour will also be of concern to local residents and commuters along this road alike. The site sits in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with the size, and especially height of the development far in excess of any other nearby structures. It will also sit less than 400m from residential property. The proposals are not yet on the online planning portal, but we expect them to be very soon. There will be a short window where objections can be lodged against the proposal and we will provide more details as they become available.764 of 800 SignaturesCreated by No Gas East Lothian
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