The council welcomes petitions and recognises that petitions are one way in which people can let us know their concerns.
While residents are free to gather signatures for a petition and send them directly to a particular department the petition scheme detailed here shows how you can get a wider audience for your petition by creating an electronic petition on our website or presenting it to a council meeting. Alternatively you can give the petition to one of your ward councillors and they can present it to council on your behalf.
Types of petitions we accept
We accept paper and electronic petitions, but not a mixture of both (hybrid petitions).
If you are submitting an e-petition, it must be sent through our e-petitions software.
Who can sign a petition?
Anyone who lives in the Ealing borough can sign a petition. Any signature on a petition that does not give an address in the borough will not be accepted.
Any signatory needs to give their name, full address and postcode for the signature to count.
What happens once a petition has been sent
The Council will normally send its substantive response within 4 weeks of receipt. There may be occasions where this is not possible, for example, over the summer holidays, in the period immediately prior to an election or referendum, where a petition relates to a matter yet to be considered.
If the petition has enough signatures to trigger a debate at a meeting of Full Council, you will be contacted to tell you when and where the meeting will take place.
Debate petitions
If your petition contains at least 1% of the assessed population figure from the 2021 Census (3,671) as published by the Office of National Statistics, it will be debated by the Full Council.
The Council will endeavour to consider the petition at its next meeting, although on some occasions this may not be possible and consideration will then take place at a future meeting. The Mayor has absolute discretion as to when a debate petition should be taken to council.
More information
Please see the full Petition Scheme for further details and information about petitions.
If you want to discuss a petition, please contact Sam Bailey, head of democratic services baileysa@ealing.gov.uk