We are concerned that fracking could: • Contaminate our water supply • Pollute the air with hazardous chemicals • Cause earthquakes • Reduce the value of our homes • Increase our insurance premiums • Make our roads less safe by increasing heavy traffic • Leak methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide • Cause illness in local populations • Increase noise and light pollution from drilling operations and traffic movement. Fracking is bad for our environment, bad for our communities and we call upon Barnsley Council to reject fracking in Barnsley.

Landowner Pralhad Kohle is trying to prevent fishermen at Cove Bay from using their boats, as people in the community have done since the 1790s. He is trying to evict them and has blocked access with boulders. Cove Bay would not be the place that it is without the harbour. Cove was built and founded on fishing and removing the boats would remove the heart of the village. It would take away people's livelihoods and remove a natural resource from future generations. The local community deserve to keep their heritage, and be allowed to enjoy it.

Following the closure of the majority of local pubs in the area, we must put a stop to the erosion of the fabric of our local community through the systematic demolition/re-development of our local pubs in Hackney. We have seen many pubs disappear in Hackney in recent history (19 within a half mile radius in the last 20 years!), to make way for unaffordable housing and developments which have no connection to the local area or its history. We must act now to save one of the last public houses in our area from closure - and in doing so, keep our community from being dismantled by big businesses who have no knowledge or respect for our heritage.

The Eel Brook is an important part of community life in SW6. It was built in 1892 and has been serving pints to locals ever since. If this pub is important to you, please sign to let our council know. For more information visit https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheEelBrook or follow on Twitter @SaveTheEelBrook UPDATE: the new owner of the Eel Brook has been in touch with the Save the Eel Brook Campaign and we have good news. The plans are to retain the ground floor as an eating and drinking venue, while the flats above will be redeveloped. Plans about the first theatre space are as yet undecided. The new owners are locals too, and not faceless developers, and are keen that the pub works for the people who use it. We have passed on the feedback about the pub we have received through this campaign and we will keep in touch with the new owners as they draw up more concrete plans. Thank you all for your support and for the love you have shown for this pub. Here's hoping we can work together with the new owners to make this place work for all of us. Watch this space for more info!

Take a look at the video and see what this local green space means to people: https://youtu.be/q6LHopGajd4

For recreation, and access to the very few walking areas around here, for general quality of life; this is not a city!

Second Edit - and here we are again. Unfortunately this time, on Friday 20th September 2024 I have been informed another pupil from Outwood Academy Adwick has been knocked down. I am unsure of his condition but I'm told it has warranted the services of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Enough is enough.  It's high time Ros Jones and Doncaster Council listened to it's residents. This road would be a challenge for anyone to cross, let alone a child. Something needs doing. And it needs doing NOW.  Edit - we are now in February 2023, 7 years on from the original petition and yesterday (23/02/23) yet another Outwood Academy pupil was knocked down on the A638. Fortunately, this child seems to have escaped with cuts and bruises.  The reality of the situation is simple. There are more houses and businesses than in 2016 which will have increased pedestrian footfall crossing this road (new housing on the site of Brodsworth Colliery, Next, B&Q, Asda warehouses increasing capacity and workforce) and less people are using public transport post COVID and choose to drive to thier daily commute.  Some kind of crossing is desperately needed on this stretch of road. The council need to act now before one of these incidents proves fatal. I have changed the Chief Exec name on the petition. The rest remains the same.  Today (13.01.2016) and in November 2015, two children in two separate incidents have been knocked down on the busy A638 dual carriageway outside Outwood Academy Adwick in Woodlands, Doncaster. The situation could be remedied with a crossing, the cost of which would be far less than the potential disaster that is waiting to happen, the cost of a child seriously injured or worse. We call upon the Ros Jones, Damien Allen and council to ensure our children are able to walk safely to and from school without the risk of being run over.

The threat to neighbourhoods and businesses suffering this plague of development show planning rules to be far too heavily weighted in favour of developers. Local residents and businesses, ambushed by ambitious plans, are now often locked out of any consultation process - their rights ignored. Local councils, who they count on to represent their interests are increasingly unwilling to fund legal appeals against their own refusals of planning consent - so give in. Now, not only are homes and businesses put at risk but the quality of life of entire neighbourhoods is vandalised. Innocent property owners should not have to mortgage their livelihoods to fight off the life-style expansions imposed by their neighbours and absent developers. This is wrong and needs to change nationally and locally. Legislation needs to be introduced to persuade or nudge a change in the current property abusing culture. The weight needs to shift in favour of those who need protection against the bullying financial demands of those who assume they can continue, and afford, to override and out-finance their innocent neighbours and local councils and, thereby, impose their encroachments on others. Somehow, a wholesale review of this clash needs to address and reform this injustice, where local authorities decide in favour of developments, regardless, because they are financially restricted, particularly through expensive appeals processes, in affording the costs incurred, to protect their constituents who innocently assume such local authorities might act in their civil interests – many are now disillusioned. As Air Studios fights for its survival, there are other fights against basement plans, including those of the owners of Admiral’s House to safeguard the heritage of Hampstead against plans by the owners of Grove Lodge and the residents of New End to stave off a 3 basement development by the owners of 29 New End. Countless others abound around the country. Something needs to be done against the tyranny of unsuitable basement developments.

Many residents who do not have IT equipment or do not read the local papers will be disenfranchised. That is not democratic and is not proper consultation by Camden. There are other options available including requiring applicants to pay for the cost of sending these letters to neighbours. Please sign this petition if you agree and please provide your own comments to Camden on the reasons why you do not want them to remove paper notifications of planning applications. I will send the petition and comments to Camden before 16 January, 2016. There is an online survey (www.camden.gov.uk/sci) and comments can also be sent to [email protected] or residents can write to Camden at Development management, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, WC1H8ND.

Park Road Allotment site is the last remaining part of Old Isleworth that is undeveloped. It offers the local community a much needed tranquil location in an otherwise urban setting. There have been allotment gardens on the site since at least 1915. Public Health England recognises the therapeutic benefits of gardening for people’s mental and physical well-being. The benefits of the site are not confined just to individual plot holders. • It is a wildlife haven: The site supports bats, newts, frogs, dragonflies, butterflies and too many birds to name. These creatures, once commonplace are increasingly rare in urban areas. • It has a major role in the production and promotion of biodiversity; plants and fruit trees depend on insects to pollinate them in order for there to be good crops. The site offers an abundant source of nectar rich plants for bees and butterflies. • The reduction of waste to landfill through composting, recycling and reusing materials. • There are learning opportunities for people of all ages who want to develop new skills and adopt a healthy lifestyle, supported through an active community garden and small garden for the local nursery school. Parents and grandparents bring children to the site; they are the next generation of gardeners. • It’s a space where children can be children; they can build camps, play pretend, weed and water their patches and be so exhausted they are asleep by 7pm. • With the increasing propensity for apartments with no individual garden space, it offers much needed outdoor space where it is possible to do more than sit and picnic. • The site forms part of the historic setting for the 600 year old All Saint’s Church. Once this tiny remaining part of Old Isleworth has been concreted over, it will be lost for all future generations. It is worth saving for everyone, now and in the future.

With all the mobile networks claiming 99% population coverage for mobile phone signal why is only 63% of the UK land mass covered by signal. Over 4500 miles of UK roads have no mobile phone coverage at all. This is not only dangerous but it is stifling development in rural areas and holding back local businesses. The government have an arrangement with the 4 main UK networks to spend £5bn by the end of 2017 to improve this but they have already come up against issues themselves with planning permission, un-co-operative landlords, site access and power to the sites. If we can make enough noise to make them realise how important this is to our communities then they will make the necessary changes needed to push through these plans. If we don't? We can see the 2017 deadline come and go and very little will change apart from 4g coverage in cities getting faster and faster.

Fracking gets a lot of attention and rightly so. THere are the environmental aspects of the government striving to grow the burning of fossil fuels of which 'Frackgas' is one of them. The pollution aspect is even more painful with metals such as; arsenic, mercury, cadmium being brought to the surface for clean up. The cost to the communities will be through a massive cost to the Water companies who will pass these additional costs on to their customers. Millions of tonnes of chemical impregnated water will be used in the 'frackgas' operation and it will all need to be treated. Where will the cleaned pollutant residue end up? We have yet to gain an answer to this. Let us look at the visual impact. Stoke on Trent could end up with some 30 derricks blotting the landscape. We know that we have miles upon miles of coal bed methane trapped under our city and towns. There is this licence for 'Frackgas' or the dangerous technique of fracking coal bed methane. This is your country: Protect It