How we respond to petitions
If you have used our epetition system we will know when your petition has closed.
If however, you have used a different petition system, or done a paper petition, when your petition reaches its closing date, please email your petition to governance-admin@lichfielddc.gov.uk.
What action will be taken
How we respond to petitions depends on how much support a petition gets:
- Fewer than 50 signatures will be passed to the relevant service manager for them to consider.
- Between 50 and 1,000 signatures will trigger a review by the relevant director/chief operating officer and cabinet member, who will decide what response or action is needed.
- More than 1,000 signatures will trigger a report that will be considered by cabinet. If a petition is going to be discussed by cabinet, or at any other formal meeting, we will promote the date, time and location of the meeting on this website.
Once a petition has been received we will write to the petition author to confirm the actions we will take - the time frame will depend on whether the petition needs to be considered by a formal council meeting and we will keep the petition author informed of key dates.
Depending on the petition, this could include:
- setting out our views about the petition's request.
- explaining that we will take the action requested in the petition.
- explaining why we will not take the action requested in the petition.
- explaining what action we will take, if any, in response to the petition.
- giving advice about how the subject raised in the petition might be pursued.
We may need to deal with petitions differently in the run up to an election or a referendum. If this is the case, we will explain the reasons and discuss the revised timescale with the petition author