• Airfare tax should subsidise Solar Panels.
    From 20th October 2019 VAT on solar panels will increase from 5% to 20%. Despite declaring a climate emergency, the government has cancelled payments for electricity uploaded to the grid by micro producers.These changes make solar panels uneconomical to install. The VAT on fossil fuels including coal & gas will remain at 5%. At present airfare carbon taxes are not used specifically to promote and develop renewable energy.
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    Created by Niall Burke
  • Petition for Parent & Child spaces in Costa car park Sweet Briar Retail Park
    I regularly go to Costa and the spaces aren’t big enough for parent & child - I struggled getting my baby in the back seat today after the car next door parked too close. I had to climb in from the other side.
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    Created by Laura Stephenson
  • OUTDOOR WORKERS NEED TOILETS TOO
    Many people in the UK are now embarking on 'deliberate dehydration' tactics to reduce the need to to use the toilet when outdoors. According to the Royal Society Of Public Health Over half (56%) of the public now restrict fluid intake due to concern over lack of toilet facilities. Outdoor workers are facing similar problems with some resorting to deliberate dehydration which can seriously affect health and exacerbate existing medical problems, National and local governments must pilot innovative new ways of financing public toilets, including a “spend a penny” campaign. In recent decades an increasing pressure on local authority budgets has led to the privatisation or closure of many public toilets. Failure to provide adequate public loos also directly hampers some of the UK’s wider public health efforts, such as curbing obesity, and keeping our increasingly elderly population physically active and socially engaged with the community.The increasing decline in public toilets is a threat to health, mobility, and equality. Also .... The lack of public toilets disproportionately affects people with ill health or disability, the elderly, women, outdoor workers and the homeless. Three in four of the UK public think there are not enough public toilets in their area. Knowledge of lack of facilities nearby acts as a ‘loo leash’, deterring as many as one in five (20%) from venturing out of their homes as often as they would like. This rises to over two in five (43%) among those with medical conditions requiring frequent toilet use. Over half (56%) of the public now restrict fluid intake due to concern over lack of access to a toilet. We must therefore call the Government to make the adequate provision of public toilets a compulsory and urgent priority. Please share if you agree
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    Created by JAMES MCGOVERN
  • Mindless tree and vegetation removal .
    The trees and vegetation which have been at the side of tracks etc. have been there for hundreds of years .Network rail have over the last few years gone into overdrive removing it and not allowing if to regrow using various excuses for doing so . This natural barrier is a haven for animals and wildlife, acts as a privacy/sound barrier for those living close to the track and enhances the look of the area . It is also extremely important as the trees and shrubs help to protect against pollution and help cleaning the air.
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    Created by Paul Tarry
  • Stop Sheffield City Council mowing grass verges
    Long grass is an important habitat for many insects and we need to create more areas where they can live unhindered by needless destruction just for the sake of it looking nice.
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    Created by Jon Alexander
  • More money for NHS Staff
    They work very hard healing and looking after the sick. It is very hard and demanding work! Mental Health Nurses in particular receive a lot of physical and verbal abuse. Shorter shifts would mean they would be less tired and therefore do an even better job! They deserve to be highly paid for all the good they do! I was in a Psychiatric Hospital for five months with Bi Polar and Spinal Stenosis whIch was extremely painful and I had an absolutely brilliant physio and team, plus a lot of help from an occupational therapist who got a grant to have my house cleared, we filled a skip, tidied and deep cleaned because I had not been able to keep it tidy due to being so ill before my admittance! The nurses got my benefits sorted and got me some help towards the boarding fees for my dogs. Everyone of the staff helped me immensely!
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    Created by Abigail Knowles
  • STOP THE PORN INDUSTRY FROM PROFITING FROM REVENGE PORN
    Victims across the UK are finding their stolen explicit content uploaded onto commercialised porn websites, where videos are able to go viral and downloaded within a matter of minutes. These popular websites propel revenge porn into the public space very quickly, and causes immense stress, embarrassment, humiliation and anxiety for victims. No one should ever have to find themselves on a porn website.
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    Created by Kate Isaacs
  • Ban the use of national emblems in political campaigns
    These are emotive symbols of national identity that should not be used by any individual political party as they may falsely suggest that one party is more patriotic than other parties.
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    Created by Helen Sissons
  • Regulatory body for MPs
    I believe that the country is sick and tired of MPs lying and misrepresenting their way into power. MPs can get away with lies (as evidenced by the recent collapse of the Johnson case) with no rebuke. It is time for a General Politicians Council to be founded.
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    Created by Peter Neville
  • Plan for the Future Today
    I am 65 years old. I have 2 grown up children and no grandchildren. But I still care that we have a recognisable planet in 20 years time for the children born then. There is no point in waiting 10 years before we take this seriously. We need to start today
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    Created by Paula Longstaff
  • Create a playspace for children who visit Hove Edge Club
    I feel the club should be investing in their members and their children as they will help the club sustain and last as a business . The visiting children of today will be the members of the club tomorrow. I have lots of fundraising ideas to pay for the outdoor space
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    Created by laura wright
  • Ban plastic sleeves on greeting cards
    We are at a tipping point in terms of non-recyclable plastics, and these single use sleeves are completely unnecessary. The number of them produced and thrown straight into landfill is absurd, they should be banned as soon as possible, they serve no meaningful purpose and are inevitably polluting waterways and landfill sites.
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    Created by Georgie Herety