Save Ham Farm is a voluntary group that has been formed to protest against a development of 250 houses on Ham Farm, a crucial piece of land in the beautiful, mediaeval market town of Faversham in Kent, the Garden of England. Please sign our petition to Michael Gove, as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, asking him to intervene and protect Ham Farm from this housing development. Faversham has already been inundated with housing developments all around, which are rapidly changing the character of this peaceful, historic town. Swale Borough Council Planning Committee is considering yet another development of 250 houses to be built on Ham Farm, a protected green field site of existing farmland and wildlife habitat, which has never been designated as potential land for houses. Ham Farm development would have a detrimental impact on the local community and environment. It would destroy valuable green space and wildlife habitats, increase traffic congestion, and put a strain on local services such as schools and healthcare. Ham Farm is important to the tourist industry due to its close proximity to the old town centre and is a valuable recreational resource to the local community. The Ham Farm site is contaminated by waste products from its previous use as brick earth extraction and brick works. There has been no soil investigation and planning wrongly assumes there is no contamination. This could exacerbate drainage issues and add to the overflow of contaminated water into the creek. According to the RSPB, wildlife throughout the country is being threatened by the erosion of available habitat. Ham Farm is an active farm, mixed arable and cattle, offering precious sanctuary to wildlife, and is especially important for nesting skylarks and yellow wagtails, and winter roosting for lapwings. It is part of a corridor for birds migrating along the East Coast of England. The erosion of wild life habitat surrounding this area through housing developments has made it all the more crucial to conserve what we have left. We should be protecting it rather than destroying it. Please add your signature to this Petition if you believe that we should prioritise preserving our natural environment over a short-term gain from a housing development in an unsuitable location. Save Ham Farm

Maryport in Cumbria has no public or private swimming pool in the town or immediate area. UK Government Funds have been specifically allocated under the levelling up criteria/ regeneration for the development of a swimming pool in the town. The Local Council have decided not to go ahead with the pool project development due to concerns around the financial running costs and have not released the running cost report for public scrutiny! The Community deserves the right to be enabled to gain the opportunity to have a swimming pool developed in the town. The swimming pool based at Netherhall School in Maryport foreclosed to make way for the new swimming pool project within the town. The Green policy, Sustainable Development strategies can be used to reduced running costs, revise the current business plan that has not been opened up for public debate. In order to revisit all options.

We have come together as a community to try and stop this development. The Potential Issues This Will Cause: RISK OF EXPLOSION An explosion could cause a massive toxic cloud which is fatal to all life in surrounding area! ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES The development will eradicate protected green lands, produce noise pollution and destroy local wildlife! NO BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY There will be no new jobs to support the build and no cheaper tariffs to the community. Also, house prices have the potential to drop! POTENTIAL EXPANSION Once the batteries are setup, surrounding areas will be potentially developed, furthering the risks!

Cromer and North Norfolk has lost a highly valued service for older and vulnerable people who leave hospital, assessing their needs prior to moving back to their own homes or other settings. Delays in discharging patients from hospital are causing huge backlogs in the NHS, added to which are concerns about patients being discharged in poor health and returned to hospital within 7 days.

Many of these workers have given years if not decades of loyalty to the company. By depriving individuals of their full-time hours, DFS is jeopardising their ability to pay their bills and provide for their families. The cuts only affect factory workers. Office staff and management still have their full-time hours and are not being affected. By treating workers like this they are forcing hard workers and skilled workers out of the business, thus lowering the standards of production. These cuts are having a negative effect on the mental health of people who are struggling to make ends meet. We urge CEO Tim Stacey to talk with the workers' union, GMB to pay the workers at least minimum wage for the time they are not being permitted to work.

Three of the biggest supermarkets in the UK are selling chickens that are dosed with antibiotics, a practice linked with the rise of superbugs. This is despite experts saying the misuse of antibiotics is one of the top ten global health threats facing humanity. 15 products across Asda, Iceland and Lidl come from SuperDrob, a supplier that's been found to misuse antibiotics. In fact in 2020, SuperDrob was linked to an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella in Europe that killed five people. Supermarkets need to get these products off shelves and protect the health of their customers. These supermarkets are facing backlash in the press, but we need public pressure to get them to stop stocking the products. If thousands of us sign this petition it will convince them to cut ties with SuperDrob and stop selling a handful of items rather than risk any more reputational damage.

My grandfather is one of over 200,000 people who contributed throughout their working life into a scheme promising pension security in his retirement. They now receive compensation from the Pension Protection Fund because their scheme was taken over by the PPF after the collapse of the company they had worked for. Now they are being deprived of an anticipated benefit because of the law governing PPF operations. This generation of old people, often cited as overprivileged, lived and paid their dues through long periods of double digit interest rates between 1975 and 1992 and are now suffering once again as interest rates rise and their compensation does not. A small group of us has formed an association to fight for change. This petition is a part of this fight . We urge you, as the responsible Minister, to become fully involved and right this wrong. For a full understanding of our case, go to the DPA website. https://www.deprivedpensioners.org/ Calling all PPF/FAS members If you are a member of either the Pension Protection Fund or the Financial Assistance Scheme run by the Fund and are aged over 50. you are very likely to be suffering from a lack of indexation under the pre-1997 rule. As well as supporting our petition it is in your interest to go to the website of the Deprived Pensioners Association and find out about our CrowdJustice campaign to right this injustice. https://www.deprivedpensioners.org/

If you care about your local environment, you'll want to reduce the air pollution caused by cars in your area. This means that it's safer for schools and their students.

There has been two injured cygnets on fishing floats and sadly one died. We need to protect the local wildlife. Everyone can support the lalo trust we need to stop the kids from fishing.

Six million people use the Post Office network for accessing DVLA services per year. Half use cash as a payment method, linked to the cost of living crisis. As banks exit the High Street and communities across the UK, there is a growing requirement for a national infrastructure that can provide vulnerable customers with essential face to face services. The existing network of privately-owned small businesses that make up the Post Office is the obvious solution to support these vulnerable groups.

London's pavements are now awash with dumped electric bicycles. They make pavements annoying for pedestrians, they make them impossible to navigate for anyone in a wheelchair or with a pram. Walk down any major London street and you'll now find yourself running a gauntlet of e-bike obstacles (Lime, Human Forest, etc etc etc), it's getting out of hand. The electric bike companies' business models seem to rely on this chaos they create "disrupting the market". So we're signing this petition to push our Mayor to do something about it. If money is the only motivator for these companies then start fining them each time a bike is dumped in an inappropriate place. Perhaps there could even be a cash bounty for people if they spot a dumped bike blocking a pavement?

Over 4000 people provided evidence of racism, sexism, and class-based discrimination in cricket to an independent consultation. The report on these issues found that racism and inequality are entrenched in cricket. Everyone should be able to play the sport they love without racism, sexism or class-based barriers. That's why the independent report has made recommendations to make the sport accessible to everyone - but so far, the ECB has only implemented one recommendation: saying sorry. Enough is enough. The ECB needs to act now and end discrimination.