• Support The Plans For Development At New Monks Farm
    The emerging Local plan has identified New Monks Farm as a key site for development to provide housing to meet the needs of the growing Adur population. We the undersigned support the proposal submitted as it will deliver a significant proportion of the number of houses required by the district including 30% affordable housing. The investment by Ikea, a large international employer will bring a range of employment opportunities to the area at a time when the UK's exit from the EU is creating economic uncertainty. The proposal includes significant investment in measures to manage flood risk and highways improvements, if these are deemed satisfactory by the statutory bodies we believe that this development should go ahead as it will increase the level of housing available in the Adur district, provide growth to the local economy through the jobs created, and provide increased council tax revenues at a time when funding from central government is reducing.
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    Created by Darren Stuart
  • Keep Sneyd Green Community Hall open
    The whole community rely on this hall for parties, community fun days, meeting people, group meetings, if this hall closes there will be nothing. All the staff and volunteers are amazing wonderful people. I cannot believe this is being allowed to happen.
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    Created by Dawn Johnson
  • Keep Carnival Pool Family Friendly.
    Having a beach pool that is toddler and child friendly is very important. In its current form it's friendly and engaging and through such a facility children develop water confidence and experience aqua sensory play. My 16 month old son and 12 year old nephew have a lot of fun playing together under the water jets and my son loves the slide. I know through using the beach pool he has developed water confidence and he clearly enjoys himself. I always see people with their children in there. We live in a borough with 10,000 under fives and to not have a beach pool in the new plans is effectively excluding/ ignoring the needs of a large portion of our community from benefitting from the new facility.
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    Created by Alexandra Fraser
  • Fringe employers sign up to the Fair Hospitality Charter
    Workers make the Edinburgh Festival, but the festival doesn’t always work for them: Festival workers are underpaid and treated poorly in precarious conditions. Unfair, precarious and unsafe working conditions leave staff out of pocket and out of energy. If you agree this is not what the Fringe should be about then sign this petition calling for the big Fringe companies to sign up the the ‘Fair Hospitality Charter’ Unite’s Fair Hospitality Charter calls for 9 things: -The real living wage -Rest breaks -Equal pay for young workers -Minimum hour contract -Anti-sexual harassment policy -Paid transport after 12pm -Consult on rota changes -100% tips to staff -Trade Union access Lets create a Fringe that works for everyone.
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    Created by Kirsty Haigh
  • Bring back weekly bin collection in Bournemouth
    The streets of Bournemouth are filthy and the smell of decomposing waste fills the air. It is fast becoming not only embarrassing but also a health and safety risk.
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    Created by Kerry-Ann Dickinson
  • Stop charging for parking at Pugneys
    It's a great place for wakefield people to visit so why should we have to pay for it? The parking here used to be free but now we have to pay. The carpark isn't tarmac its just dirt just like it was years ago when it was free. So who do we have to pay now for the exact same thing.
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    Created by John Balmer
  • Speed cameras for Warley Road, Halifax
    There is a danger to life. It is not safe to cross as cars often drive round islands to get past. Learner drivers are targeted and as there is a park entrance there are lots of young children about. There have been many reports to Council and Police that justify extra measures but these are largely not producing a response. Local residents have supplied video, photographic and first hand accounts of the driving that is illegal and highly dangerous. There are 20 signs on this road but speeds are often in excess of 60 miles and hour. There have been reports of eye witness and CCTV footage from businesses nearby that has shown near misses and the scale of the problem.
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    Created by Alex Abel
  • Bradpole park
    Residents of lower bradpole and surrounding areas have to travel a mile and further to the closest playground to play safely . The walk includes crossing a narrow road where there isn't a pavement. The pavements available are often difficult to use for pushchairs as cars are often parked up on them and this also makes it difficult for crossing. Despite the houses being planned and built for families in mind a nearby park has not been provided for the numerous families who have and are expected in the neighbourhood. All other areas within bridport designed for families have a nearby park within a safe distance for parents and children. The distance they have to travel should not put a hinder on them attending a park. Parks keep children active occupies and encourages new friendships while saving resources on parents having to travel by car to access play facilities. The fact that there is a large open, unused, green space that is in the center or lower bradpole that is not being used to its full potential for the residents seems wasteful. This area would be extremely beneficial to adapt into a play park to enrich the lives of the residents and it's neighbouring communities.
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    Created by Rosie Harp
  • Sort the bins issue in Southampton
    Since the bin collection has been reduced to 'save money', the area has quickly become unhygienic, smelly and full of flies and vermin. It's reducing residents' quality of life and making the place undesirable to both visitors and regular inhabitants. Southampton City Council state that 'there will continue to be an efficient waste and recycling collection that meets the needs of residents' - having spoken to several members of the public, this is not the case. It is not meeting our needs as citizens who pay council tax for the upkeep and maintenance of our local area and frankly, it's making the city an unpleasant place to live and work in. While we appreciate funding cuts are being made from centralised Government, we would argue that this is not a 'non-essential service' as Southampton City Council's website claims. Surely the upkeep of the city is in fact a very important service, on so many levels - for our general health, wellbeing and happiness, and for keeping heavily populated areas cleaner and healthier. The council also claim that reducing these services will encourage more recycling, but as the recycling is not being collected any more regularly than before these changes, it is hard to see how this is having any kind of positive impact. Please sign this petition to help us campaign for a cleaner, healthier city that we can be proud to live in.
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    Created by Laura Lamb
  • Make London's Buses Accessible For Everyone
    So that blind people can feel comfortable when travelling on public transport and it allows them to have equal opportunites as other people.There have been many times where blind people are disoriented and need to stop fearing getting onto the wrong bus when travelling on public transport. These changes will allow them to know what bus has arrived at the stop. Thank you.
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    Created by Kristina Mihaylova
  • Save The Seven Sisters Rochdale
    College Bank estate, known as The Seven Sisters, consists of seven iconic tower blocks, visible landmarks for miles around, which were built in the 1960s to an exceptionally high standard in order to successfully attract outside professionals into the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, as well as for local residents. Both flats and studio apartments are spacious and of a higher standard than any other social housing in the Borough. Over the years they have had additional improvements to lifts, windows, kitchens and bathrooms. They have no external cladding and meet fire safety regulations. A large number of current occupants have lived in them for twenty years or more, some have been living there for almost 50years. Many are also leaseholders, having bought their properties. RBH say they wish to replace with low rise of equal quality, but residents know that no alternatives will match the quality of what they have now. There is no social housing of this quality within the Borough and it is unlikely that anything new will be built to such high a standard. Residents have not been properly consulted and feel these proposals are being imposed upon them by RBH. Pensioners were in tears when the proposals were revealed on the estate, as they all expected to live out their days in these totally accessible properties, which are close to the Town Centre and three supermarkets. Saiqa Naz, a Mental Health Practitioner (with an interest in equality and diversity) says “My concern with the proposed demolitions is that moving elderly and vulnerable people, including people with mental health problems, will isolate them and have a detrimental impact on their mental health and overall wellbeing. I have been supporting distressed elderly people living in The Seven Sisters as they are worried about losing their homes and are not sleeping well. Being close to the town centre, local amenities and services is important for these people’s health and wellbeing. The elderly people can currently walk into town and have some level of independence. They will lose this independence if they have to move further away from town. Also, the flats are an ideal location for services to do their outreach work for those with mental health or other problems. Pushing people into the wider community will make it difficult for services to access and support people who need help the most.” Saiqa’s comments are confirmed by quotations from residents: “I have lived here 35 years. It is a perfect location for town shops, doctors, dentist, hospital. A good community of people live here.” “I love it here, it’s flat, there are no steps so it’s handy for older people. We feel safer, with cameras and security.” “I’m dreading the prospect of moving. I love my flat, it’s beautiful. I’ve got it as I want it. I don’t want all the upheaval.” “I have heart failure and need to be near my GP and the town centre. It would be stressful for me to move.” “It’s worrying, on your mind all the time. Nobody wants to go and live where they don’t want to.” “There is nothing more stressful than being told your home is going to be destroyed. It’s a burden that’s with you every minute of the day.” And from the younger generation, “I like it round here. I grew up round here. I want my kids to grow up round here.” “We love our home! It’s our first home together.” Other members of the outside community cannot believe that their destruction is planned, as they consider them to be iconic features of the town, along with our grade one listed Town Hall. “They’re iconic. When you see The Seven Sisters you know your home.” “This would be the end of an era, they’re a landmark, you see them straight off the motorway. College Bank has been called The Seven Sisters for years.” “The Seven Sisters are synonymous with Rochdale. How are they going to accommodate all the people?” In fact the proposals would lose c520 units and they are intending to put 120 new units on the same footprint. That would mean a net loss on that land of c400 units at a time of housing shortage. Please sign our petition to oppose this act of institutional vandalism.
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  • Liverpool CCG To Restore All Funding To Trans* Project
    As figures publicised by Mermaids show (http://bit.ly/2ve9eQR), trans* youth are at greater risks of bullying, self-harming, and suicide. YPAS's THE Action Youth project has played a vital role in protecting trans* youth from these behaviours. Since the project's formation, other local support services have seen a significant reduction in trans* youths self-harming, and no suicides at all. However, as a result of Liverpool CCG cutting funding, YPAS can no longer afford a full-time member of staff to run THE Action Youth project, nor maintain it's full programme of services to trans* youth. Consequently, we the undersigned believe that Liverpool CCG cutting funding in half for this vital project puts the lives of trans* youth in greater danger. We further believe that failure to produce a robust equality impact assessment, nor consult with key stakeholders, community networks, and, of course, the young people and their families directly affected breaches equalities and human rights legislation. We thus call on Liverpool CCG to meet with representatives of the undersigned in order to meet their equalities and human rights obligations and, most importantly, reverse their decision to halve funding for YPAS's THE Action Youth project without delay.
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    Created by Claire Rice