Maidstone is a highly populated town with plenty of traffic and a centralised population. This means that many residential roads become "rat runs" for cars looking to avoid traffic on the major roads. A 20mph limit will make our residential roads safer.

The ones based in or near the hospitals are hard to reach for those without their own transportation, often having to use two buses , making it hard for the elderly, and the disabled.

It is ludicrous that non resident parents are currently legally allowed in the UK to pay as much money as they want into a private pension for themselves to use later in life, so that by doing this it reduces their gross income so that the child maintenance payments calculated for them to pay to their child/children growing up is a lot less. This will have a huge impact on a lot of children growing up in single parent families and is simy wrong. Please sign this petition for this to be looked at and changed. Thankyou

We have the right to enjoy our property without constant noise

This plan will result of a 50% reduction in "useable" "pub" space. The proposed "cave in the basement" will never become a viable pub or music venue and as planned ground floor ceiling at the rear will be too low to be suitable as a music venue. So Kilburn will lose its last live music venue. In time the rest of the pub will converted to housing.

On strike days Northern provide no trains at Congleton and no replacement bus service, their only advice is to walk over a mile to the town centre to catch a bus service that doesn't run anymore. Congleton is the busiest station that is not served on strike days and which has no reasonable alternative. This disrupts a lot of people and has a major negative impact on the town.

The primary reason a parent attends a Healthy Child Clinic is that they can weigh their child. This is a service which has already been reduced in Medway; having recently seen Parkwood Health Child Clinic reduced to just two Thursdays a month. This service allows parents to monitor their childs physical development alongside a health professional to be confident they are developing as they should. This is extremely important for parents to access, for example; 1. In times where twins have been born and close monitoring of their growth once discharged from hospital is important 2. When a mother changes the way she feeds her child, from combination feeding to solely breastfed, it is important to know that the baby maintains a healthy weight during this transitional period I accept that there are some self weigh facilities in Medway, however by the nature of them, they are not accompanied by a health professional and therefore parents are not able to address any concerns. Appointments with health professionals may be some wait. Following your proposal to remove this service, what provisions additional to self weigh will you be putting in place to replace weigh in clinics? At a Healthy Child Clinic, parents can access health professionals to address their concerns. It is an informal way they can pop in to see somebody without the need to book an appointment with their GP or health visitor. Usually, these questions are asked at the point when they weigh their child as this is a convenient way in which to do so. Parents feel comfortable asking the ‘little’ questions they feel they cannot trouble their GP with, or do not warrant a health visitor visit. A parent may feel that these are the little and perhaps less urgent questions they have, but that does not automatically mean they are any less valid, important or necessary and one persons perception of ‘the little things’ may actually turn out to be an indicator of something more serious. Following your proposal to remove a parents ability to ask these questions to a health professional, what provision will be in place for parents to discuss their concerns? The current telephone number for snapdragons is already ineffective as it is rarely answered. Have you considered the impact on a parent with a concern calling the team and not being able to gain information where before they could rely on a walk in , drop in service? When visiting a Healthy Child Clinic, parents who have decided to breastfeed their children are able to access breastfeeding support. It is recognised that support and particularly lack of support can affect a mothers success in breastfeeding. At a time where an Infant Feeding Team has quadrupled in size within Medway and where accreditation for the baby friendly initiative has recently been awarded (partly on the support of the breastfeeding support available within Healthy Child Clinics – I myself was interviewed by the assessors on 14th June 2018 giving information around the support we provide at the clinics) it is a large resource to parents to gain their breastfeeding support. On Thursday 13th September, I spent over an hour supporting a family who are desperate to continue breastfeeding. On Tuesday 4th September , I spent over 30 minutes speaking with a lady who had not been supported effectively by the on site Health Visiting Team to continue her journey . Following your proposal to remove a parents ability to access peer supporters at Healthy Child Clinics, what provision will be in place for parents to discuss their concerns in a local and easy access format? Who will be responsible for breastfeeding support? If the resource gained from the removal of these clinics is to be used for home visits by CNNs and HVs, will these staff be retrained in breastfeeding support to ensure that they are full and effectively equipped to support mothers on their breastfeeding journeys? I can assure you, based on the volume of mothers directed to Peer Supporters at clinics by these professionals their current level of knowledge is not sufficient to now support in the home. To touch on the recent accreditation with UNICEFs Baby Friendly Initiative, where the Healthy Child Clinics played a large part in securing the reaccreditation, why is it that the very clinics that supported the award now being removed? Will MCH be updating UNICEF with their now lack of provision for baby support and is it the case that MCH were happy to accept the accreditation, the benefits and image this portrays and is now cutting the services regardless of the consequences to families in Medway? To summarise, I would like to provide you with some simple statistics from yesterday Health Child Clinic at Parkwood Health Centre. We saw 50 families , within the space of 90 minutes. There were 4 health professionals available to see these parents and it was still not enough to meet demand as we had to turn parents away. Each family received on average 7 minutes and 12 seconds of consultation during which they weighed their child, asked their questions and gained much needed support from their professional. This is one small area or Medway, however many of our visitors had travelled from Gillingham, Chatham, Wayfield to see someone due to the already drastic cuts to their support network. So lets imagine Medway without a provision of Healthy Child Clinics: • 50 children would not have been weighed • 50 families would not have had support from health professionals, where the concerns discussed would not have resulted in effective referrals

There will be notable repercussions in the standard of exam results in six different courses in Firrhill High School alone if the I.T. equipment isn't provided at an acceptable standard in schools in Edinburgh. Disadvantaged students are effected the worst as they may be unable to provide a computer at home. Pupils in classes are unable to complete tasks as the computers provided previously do not have the ability to run programs needed in course work.

The single deck buses are not big enough and at busier times small children, elderly people and those with mobility issues are forced to stand in cramped conditions with very little to hold on to. This often means that drivers are forced to leave passengers behind as there is no space on board. Also during these periods standing passengers have to get off of the bus in order to allow those sitting at the rear of the bus to alight at their chosen stop. It gets especially bad at the hospital and college stops during peak times.

Object to the scheme being changed Unaffordable pay enough COUNCIL Tax should be included if proposed We pay to tax insure mot our cars and now ? Parking if we can in street Animosity between resident's who already struggle to park in the area

This is important as Dads are growing in their influence in a family and yet so many facilities are STILL slacking for them to appropriately be there for their families.

Wetherspoons clearly are living in the past by banning dogs, the best pubs allow dogs in the bar without any issues. For example nearly all pubs and eating establishments in the lake district allow dogs. The lakes are one of the biggest tourist areas in the UK with many families enjoying the countyside and pubs where dogs are made very welcome. In my experience most children love dogs and most dog owners are responsible loving people. Do Wetherspoons realise that by banning dogs they are in fact banning the dog owners. More than 1 in 4 households in the UK have a dog so I urge them to rethink this decision!