Ban house builders including service management for freeholds in the deeds
- Final Signatures: 2,900
Ban the sale of management services & fees of freehold property owners to management companies. As they are Charging extortionate amounts for stuff we will never use.
Enhance consumer protection for holiday caravan owners
- Final Signatures: 27,923
Amend the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 to reflect changes in consumer protection regulations and require all related consumer contracts to list clearly all services and associated costs payable/deductible in respect of pitch fees.
The Government responsed to this petition on 18th December 2023 (View Full Response)Suspend the 'Right to Buy' scheme for council housing until stock increases.
- Final Signatures: 212
The Right to Buy scheme was introduced in 1980 and is designed to help council and housing association tenants in England buy their home at a discount. This scheme has led to a visible decimation of the council and social housing stock as so little stock is being constructed.
Government to increase local authority funding to pay for an increase in pay for social workers. Public sector workers will get an above-inflation pay rise and social workers have been ignored. They are frontline safeguarding children and adults and at the forefront of fighting this pandemic.
Ban developments on Green belt and Greenfield sites across the country
- Final Signatures: 13,947
Loss of green belt & greenfield sites for housing negatively affects the environment, releasing carbon from the land & losing that land's ability to capture new carbon. Wildlife and plant life already under stress, are displaced & loss of green spaces has a negative effect on communities.
The Government responsed to this petition on 1st March 2022 (View Full Response)Update planning laws to allow for environmentally friendly, low impact and sustainable homes to be built in England more easily, thus letting people live with less impact on the environment. This has been done with the one planet development policy in Wales and the crofting legislation in Scotland.
Give religious institutions legal rights to broadcast calls to prayer
- Final Signatures: 54
It is integral for Muslim communities to hear the call to prayer 5 times per day.
To not allow us not to do this is to take away our religious rights. It is imperative for us to hear this, as it is in other countries.
Reform rules for mutual exchange of social housing
- Final Signatures: 923
Introduce some clear rules to reduce the amount of tenants pulling out of mutual exchanges. Set Cut off dates to reduce pull outs for example 10 days after approved request. If a tenant pulls out of an exchange more than 3 times they no long can apply for a new exchange.
I call on the government to liaise with charities and establish a central fund to provide grants of up to £50,000 to Local Authorities to fund the creation of local arboretums as public places of remembrance in the aftermath of the current crisis.
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)