East Suffolk Council Petition Scheme

Introduction

This scheme sets out the details of how East Suffolk Council will deal with and respond to petitions.

East Suffolk Council recognises the importance of petitions as a means of engaging more meaningfully with local communities, enabling the public to let us know about their concerns and as a mechanism for generating service improvements.

This Petition Scheme will be reviewed every four years.

What is a petition?

Any communication which is signed by, or sent to the council on behalf of a number of people who live, work or study within East Suffolk, could be treated as a petition.

We will treat something as a petition if it is identified as being a petition, or if it seems to us that it is intended to be a petition.