Guidance

Submitting petitions and campaigns to DCLG ministers

Information on how to submit petitions and campaigns to the Department for Communities and Local Government.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 23 January 2013
• Last updated: 20 March 2014 — See all updates

This guidance was withdrawn on 7 October 2016

This page is no longer being updated. The latest information can be found on our petitions and campaigns page.

Applies to England

Introduction

We will publish petitions and campaigns that have been sent by post or email to ministers in the Department for Communities and Local Government.

A petition is 1 document with a list of signatures and a campaign is a number of individual items of correspondence all about the same subject.

How to submit a petition or campaign

There are a number of ways to send petitions and campaigns to the department:

By post:

Head of Ministerial Correspondence
Department for Communities and Local Government
Fry Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

By email:

contactus@communities.gsi.gov.uk

By hand

If you would like to hand deliver a petition, please contact the department prior to your arrival on 030 3444 0000 to make sure that someone can collect your petition.

e-petitions

If you wish to petition the government online, more information can be found at Petition the government.

Publishing a petition or campaign

When we receive a petition or campaign we will publish the number of signatures, a summary of the petition (but not petitioners’ names and addresses), and our response.

We aim to reply to petitions within 20 working days. We’ll explain what we will do in response to the points made in the petition, and why.

In addition to publishing the reply online, we will send the response direct to the originator of the petition or campaign.

If you don’t want the petition, or the response, to be published online (even without the names and addresses of the petitioners), please let us know when you send us the petition.

List of petitions received by the department

Date received	Title	Submitted by	Summary	No. of signatures	Response
17 Mar 2014	New Asda supermarket	Diane Morrell	Want an Asda to be built in Bath	240	response
2 Oct 2013	Timbersbrook Project	Mr Leo Deen	Against closure of the Timbersbrook Project	742	response
11 Mar 2013	Reject the Stamford Hill and North Hackney Neighbourhood Forums	Hackney Planning Watch	Against the proposed Neighbourhood Forums	750	response
21 Feb 2013	Exempt Hackney from new planning laws	Shoreditch Works Foundation	Proposed changes to planning rules could see the end of London’s Tech City	Over 100	response
29 Dec 2012	Stop the demolition of Blackpool’s ABC Theatre	Gill Payne	Against plans to demolish the building	2,493	response
20 Dec 2012	Save Sheffield’s Jessop Hospital building	Nicholas Roscoe	Against Sheffield University’s plan to demolish the Grade II listed Edwardian building	2,508	response
9 Oct 2012	Complaint against Aylesbury Vale Council	Jan Sofair	Complaint against planning decisions regarding Nash conservation area	157	response
26 Sept 2012	Eviction Martlett Court	Nick Scrivens	To permit Mr Siklawi to continue residing at his current address	118	response
26 Sept 2012	Sidmouth planning application	Alan Darrant	Requesting call-in of planning application	4,253	response
3 July 2012	Kingsbridge development plan	Mrs N Ghiassi, Mr T Ghiassi, Mr F Ghiassi	Objecting to sites K1-K6 in development plan	648	response
30 June 2011	Mr and Mrs Budhram	Tracey Egdell	Against the use of bankruptcy to collect council tax arrears in vulnerable cases	900	response
23 May 2011	Sutton Council Tax rise of 28%	Chris Drury	Protect against proposed Council Tax increase	800	response
15 May 2011	Against loss of village pub	Rick Bhatt and Charlene Vanenbrouke	Against the closure of The Chequers in Gazely, Suffolk	183	response
28 Mar 2011	Save Earby Community Centre	David J Hartley	Prevent the closure of the Community Centre	1,100	response
28 Jan 2011	Save our pub The Grosvenor Arms	Rosemary H John	Prevent the closure of the pub in Westminster	500	response
10 Jan 2011	It’s Nott Decent	Patricia England	To retain current spending levels for the Decent Homes programme	256	response
18 Nov 2010	Pavement cafes in Melton Mowbray	Dr Matthew O’Callaghan	Opposition to license pavement cafes	2,500	response
4 Nov 2010	Objection to W4B power station	Jack Lopresti MP on behalf of Sue Black	Opposition to proposed W4B power station in Bristol	265	response

List of campaigns received by the department

Date received	Title	Submitted by	Summary	No. of documents	Response
7 Nov 2012	Growth and Infrastructure Bill: clause 1	Manchester Friends of the Earth	Concerns that the Bill gives the Secretary of State more planning powers to bypass local council decisions	100	response

Published 23 January 2013

Last updated 20 March 2014 + show all updates

1. 20 March 2014

   Added Asda petition and response.

2. 13 November 2013

   Added petition against closure of the Timbersbrook Project

3. 25 April 2013

   Added Hackney Neighbourhood Forums petition and response.

4. 22 March 2013

   Added Hackney petition and response.

5. 13 February 2013

   Added Blackpool ABC Theatre and Sheffield Jessop Hospital petitions and responses.

6. 23 January 2013

   First published.