Surrey residents wishing to raise an issue or concern or have your views heard on a council matter or policy, can now create and sign “No.10” style ePetitions online via the Surrey County Council Website
Using the internet to create an e-petition allows a potentially much wider audience to view local petition and gives residents the opportunity to gather more names to support a petition.
Residents may gather names and addresses in both forms – both a paper version and an online version, although repeat names should be removed by the lead petitioner.
You can submit your petition by post or through using our online petition facility. Anyone who lives, works or studies in Surrey may submit a petition to Surrey County Council.
More information on how to create, review or sign Surrey e-petitions can be found at the following link. Surrey County Council e-petitions
Reigate & Banstead Borough Council will be launching a similar e-petitions service soon, which will give local residents the option of raising petitions, on-line for Reigate & Banstead Council services.
Cllr Mark Brunt – Merstham Ward Councillor
“The e-petitions service encourages residents to get more involved in local democracy and this is a very easy way of people making their views known to the decision-makers on the council. The service will also help the councils to better understand the views of residents, especially around issues effecting individual areas of the borough. ”
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I’m not particularly motivated to try it. I have some experience of these things at a national level, but the burning issue for me (and my street of perhaps 15 houses) that concerns the County is one of residents’ permit parking. Even if I were to take the trouble to get 100% of those affected to sign up, it would still represent a very small number. What confidence can I have that anyone would pay any attention to it?