• Save Our Bus Station (SOBS)
    The town will lose 70 parking spaces. The present Bus Station location is perfect and links well with the railway station. We would very much like it to be part of the new development. If this cannot be the case we would like a similar location with links to the railway station. Most importantly the people of Sudbury are not being listened to.
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    Created by Teresa Bishop Picture
  • Facial difference discrimination
    People with facial differences are faced with discrimination every day. Peoples perceptions and attitudes can be discriminating and demoralising. People with facial difference should be treat equally with the same opportunities as everyone else. Have laws and policies to protect them from negative attitudes and protection from bullying and unacceptable behaviour from society
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    Created by MICHELLE WILLIS Picture
  • Save Steward Wood - Our Appeal has been rejected - help us save our homes
    Steward Community Woodland is a hugely important project in terms of the global environmental challenges everyone is currently facing. We have created a far more sustainable way of living on this planet and are sharing the knowledge we have gained with the many hundreds of visitors we receive every year. From our beginnings in 2000, we've been living and working on the land we own for the past 16 years. We recently applied for permanent planning permission which was denied and followed by an appeal. This appeal has been turned down and now we are faced with the prospect of eviction. We NEED YOUR HELP to petition the Dartmoor National Park so we can continue living on the land with our children, all of whom have spent most there lives here. Please share this petition as much as you can.
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    Created by Steward Wood
  • Save Ealing Town Hall
    This is our heritage and it is a public building Not some councillor's distorted idea that they are entrepreneurs.They are public servants
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    Created by Philip Hurrell
  • Solicitor charging
    It would appear that ordinary high street solicitors are now charging upwards of £200 per hour for simple routine tasks like conveyancing, handling probate for a will. This can very soon eat up all of a modest estate where a person has left debts on their estate or a will is contested or the person dies intestate. This is an obscene amount to charge for routine work which is probably carried out by a paralegal or junior person at the company anyway. I see absolutely no reason for such astronomical fees which I believe should be curbed. £50 per hour is surely more than enough for anyone. A few years ago, in 2005 I successfully defended a claim against me in civil court. My solicitor, a junior, charged me in total around £40,000 at £160 per hour. Costs were not awarded by the court as the other party had secured legal aid. How can this be right? That £160 per hour in 2005 will now be....? I would suggest that legislation should be brought in to curb such excessive charging and the legal profession be made more accountable to the people.
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    Created by Hugh Morgan
  • Short Break Funding Cuts in West Berkshire
    The term ‘Short Breaks’ for families of disabled children, conjures up a beautiful and relaxed vision of families merrily enjoying weekends away, holidays abroad and special, celebratory times with family and all at the expense of the tax payer, when in reality this could not be further from the truth. These short breaks are periods of respite for the families giving them precious time to spend with their other children whose needs are, through sheer necessity, often placed a distant second to their disabled sibling’s complex care needs. This time often allows families do the ordinary everyday tasks that many of us take for granted, such as homework, going swimming, maybe a trip to the cinema and spending priceless time with their parents. Parents often carry out the more mundane domestic tasks such as washing, cleaning and shopping during these times. Other parents access these services to enable them to take part in social activities, maintain friendships and relationships, and access further training or have some simple down time to recuperate so they are able to continue to care for their child at home. The few short hours our special children spend at the specialised after-school clubs, Youth Clubs, Holiday Play Schemes, Saturday Clubs and overnight breaks, with highly trained staff who can meet their complex needs, enables many parents to continue to work full time and provide valuable financial contributions to the economy and local community. The short breaks undeniably enable families to cope with their extraordinary day to day life. The withdrawal of these short breaks will have a catastrophic effect on some families who will quickly become unable to cope and will be faced with one of the most heart breaking decisions any parent will be forced to make, which is to move their child into a residential setting, thus splitting their family forever. Our special children simply cannot access mainstream activities, no matter how much we would love this to be the case and these short breaks give each and every one of them the opportunity to socialise with their peers, to laugh, to play, to be children – how can anyone deny them this? Would it be acceptable to close all of the mainstream playgrounds, groups, holiday schemes, after-school clubs and social activities? The answer to this we are sure, would be a resounding NO! Parents of our special children must invest huge amounts of time and energy to meet the care requirements and demands of their disabled children and they do this without question and at great personal cost, as this is what parents do for their children. The savings being made are potentially equal to the cost just one child moving into residential care? By keeping the funding in place you will support hundreds of children and families for the same cost as one in care.
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    Created by Caz Austin
  • Say no to intensive poultry & egg farming in Painscastle
    Intensive poultry and egg farming units are cropping up all over Brecon & Radnorshire. These units should have no place in our beautiful countryside, and we would urge farmers to diversify in more ethical and environmentally friendly ways. Plans have been submitted to Powys County Council for sheds crammed with 16,000 chickens to lay free range eggs. These will join 12,000 birds already housed elsewhere on the farm. We don’t want to see this happen. There are several reasons why: - - Lorry traffic on the narrow roads will increase significantly. The access road is dangerously narrow in parts. This is extremely unsafe and will add to noise and pollution in the area. - Ammonia from these units will cause unpleasant odours and impact on the neighbouring farms and residencies, some of which rely on tourism for income and could be badly affected. - The environment could suffer with nitrogen from the shed's ventilation shafts damaging surrounding flora and fauna. - Waste from these units threatens to contaminate the water system and harm wildlife in our local area. - The new farm buildings will severely affect the visual landscape of the area. We want to support a thriving local farming industry. We will support anyone who wants to diversify their farming mix to ensure a more sustainable future – but not if the price is irreparable damage to our beautiful part of the world. Please add your signature to this petition to try and stop yet another intensive poultry shed in Powys.
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    Created by Louise Davies
  • Stop Child Maintenance Evasion
    If the government are talking abut huge companies using tax havens to evade paying their fair share why are we not talking about child maintenance evasion? This effects so many struggling parents. Even parents who are on benefits need to pay child maintenance, but affluent parents evade paying by 'starting up their own business'. On many occasions this is a tactical move and we need to protect our children by changing the 'no child maintenance' requirement for parents who have left their salaried job to start their own business and therefore have to pay ZERO. Mothers and fathers will understand this legal loophole in which they lawfully do not receive child maintenance from their child's non-resident parent. By starting up their own business and hiding their money in someone else's account (i.e their partners) and not putting their earnings through HMRC the Child Maintenace Service say they do not have to pay maintenance due to not having a taxable income or savings. The government need a different method of assessing maintenance to plug this hole. Our children's lives should be supported by both parents and if the non-resident parent does not morally believe they should then the government should legally require them to.
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    Created by Steph Hillier
  • Reinstate Palestine on Google's maps
    Palestine is a state recognised by the United Nations and by almost all countries, notably with the exception of countries of the North American continent and Australia. Google map products are widely-used across the world, almost to the point of exclusivity and as such have very significant influence and control of the way people of the world think. It is extremely important therefore that the products are unbiased and fairly represent the thinking of all peoples and states in the world. The removal of "Palestine" as a rendered label violates this and imposes a view held only by a small minority of countries. It is not appropriate for US corporate interests to dictate to the world in this way. We request the UK government act to urge the US government and Alphabet Inc. directly to correct this matter and re-instate the rendering of the label "Palestine" on Palestinian terrotories.
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    Created by Clare Walsh
  • Reform the Lords & Reduce Number of MPs
    Many Lords do not make use of their privilege, yet reportedly claim in full their allowances. An inherited title or given favour is poor guarantee that the person so elevated is actually qualified for shaping UK law. The inheritance of such influential positions is an outmoded mechanism of government and a huge waste of public funds. Likewise, the number of MPs inflates beyond reason the cost of running government.
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    Created by Franz Opitz
  • Palm oil in biscuits and chocolate
    Palm oil production has destroyed vast areas of forest in countries including Indonesia, which is home to orangutans, the Rainforest foundation UK says palm oil companies are now planning to expand into the rainforests of the Congo basin in Africa, home to lowland gorillas and other threatened primates. Palm oil companies are also partly responsible for the recent devastating forest fires in Sumatra, which caused pollution episodes in Malaysia and Singapore.
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    Created by Diana Powell
  • Don't destroy commercial solar by crippling it with business rates in 2017
    The government may raise tax on solar in April 2017... unless enough people appeal. This would be a huge increase in the running costs of a rooftop solar installation that would affect both existing and new projects according to Solar Trade Association (STA). “In some cases, it would actually send installations into negative returns: you would be spending more on the system in tax and maintenance than you would be getting back from the sale of the power and the Feed-in Tariff support”, Paul Barwell, CEO of the STA commented. “We therefore need Ministers to step in as soon as possible”. Raising tax to such a crippling extent just over a year after the UK gov made a commitment to tackling climate change would drastically diminish our leadership in renewable energy generation at a time when the global mean temperature continues to rise. It would do this by discouraging 1000's of solar projects. It would be a hugely backward step by the UK in the midst of a collective global energy transition.
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    Created by Tom Harper