Council and Democracy

Current ePetitions

An e-Petition is a petition which collects signatures online. This allows petitions and supporting information to be made available to a potentially much wider audience than a traditional paper based petition.

Paper petitions may also be submitted. These will be linked to an ePetition which will also be displayed on this part of the website.

More information on the Council’s petitions scheme can be found here.

Anyone who lives, works or studies in the area can submit or sign an e-Petition.

E-Petitions are part of the Council’s ongoing commitment to listening to and acting on the views of the public.

Select an earlier date range below to find completed e-Petitions and responses from the Council.

Purposes of processing your personal data

The council welcomes petitions as a valuable tool for people to let us know their concerns about the local community.

In order to review and respond to a petition submitted to us, we will need to process some of the personal information of the people who have signed it. We provide a platform for people to create petitions on our website. Petitions that are received in other formats will also be published here.

We will use the contact details of the petition organiser to update them on the council’s response to the petition.

Categories of personal data and lawful basis

In order to provide this service, we may need to process some or all of the following categories of personal information:

contact details

Under data protection legislation, we are permitted to use your information this way because we it is a task carried out in the public interest.

Who we share your personal data with

Petitions and our response will be published on our website. The personal information of signatories will be processed by the Democratic Services team in order to verify the signatures, this personal information will not be shared within the organisation or published on our website.

There are no current ePetitions

Supporting an e-Petition

To support an existing e-Petition choose an e-Petition and add your name, address and email address.

To find out more about the issue, see the supporting information, provided by the lead petitioner, attached to the e-Petition.

Submitting an e-Petition

An e-Petition can relate to any issue on which the Council has powers or duties or on which it has shared delivery responsibilities through the Local Area Agreement or other partnership arrangement.

Disclaimer

This Council accepts no liability for the petitions on these web pages. The views expressed in the petitions do not necessarily reflect those of the providers.