Encourage increased disabled parking provision by local councils
- Final Signatures: 117
Since the correct introduction of more parking spaces to support hidden disabilities such as anxiety and depression, I want the Government to encourage councils to increase the amount of parking spaces pro rata.
Ensure emergency access to residential properties of single, disabled people
- Final Signatures: 41
Public and private landlords, including care homes, should be required to ensure that homes of single disabled people can be immediately accessed in an emergency. This could be achieved by fitting a key safe for use by emergency services, removing the time needed wait on a key holder or break entry.
Ban local councils from charging for rubble and diy waste materials
- Final Signatures: 35
Force local councils to remove charges applied for waste from diy projects. This would include
Ceramic
Paving
Wood
Wood derivatives
Cement
All future plans for multi-occupancy buildings such office blocks, blocks of flats, etc. must include the implementation of a rain water harvesting system. This will not only reduce fresh water usage from a depleting supply but also hugely reduce water utility bills.
The Government should recognise that domestic abuse is a gendered crime and women are the majority of victims and the vast majority of severe injury and domestic homicide victims, and require local authorities to fund specific domestic abuse services for women.
The Government responsed to this petition on 28th May 2021 (View Full Response)Require letters from local authorities about fines/debts be sent "signed for"
- Final Signatures: 44
Too many final demand letters for fines and debts, such as for traffic infringements, are reaching the recipient without any of the previous letters being received. In some cases a simple fine has escalated, unbeknownst to the motorist, to bailiffs.
The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) guides local authorities in relation to planning decisions. The NPPF has a glaring omission; the word ‘hedge’ does not exist anywhere in the document, and consequently hedges are the first casualty of greenfield site or 'garden grabbing' developments.
The Government responsed to this petition on 24th September 2020 (View Full Response)Require councils to suspend council tax increases for year 2021/2022
- Final Signatures: 1,587
Require councils to suspend council tax rises, to ease the pressure on family budgets caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Ban new housing developments in National Parks
- Final Signatures: 205
The Government should stop all new housing developments in national parks across the UK. The New Forest authority is accepting plans for a new large development on national park land near Calshot. Developments like this should not be allowed.
Abolish Council Tax for State Pensioners
- Final Signatures: 22,751
We want the Government to abolish Council Tax for everyone in receipt of the State Pension.
The Government responsed to this petition on 27th April 2023 (View Full Response)