The official site of the Prime Minister’s Office

Petition update, 13 June 2008

More details from petition creator

We urge the Prime Minister to evaluate the concerns put forward by Cheshire County Council against the split, and acknowledge the withdrawal of Chester City Council (the original supporter for two unitary councils) from supporting a split. Services provided in the county are at risk, such as Education, Social Services, Transport and financially the Value for Money. This highlights the fact that the people of Cheshire would not just be paying financially for the split, but also have their local services jeopardised. The four star county council has the experience and infrastructure in place that currently provides 80% of the local needs for the people of Cheshire. It would be a lot smoother, cheaper, and beneficial to the residents if the remainder 20% was transferred to a single unitary council, rather than all the services to be split, and distributed to two, new councils with relatively little experience in delivering all the services required. Cheshire is a rural county, and works better united, rather than divided. It must not be treated the same as urban, metropolitan city areas, which understandably do work better smaller (Stoke being an example).

Current signatories

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

• Abigail Martin
• Maria Cooke
• Chris Yates
• Brian J Lewis
• David Aspden
• Lizzi Hough
• Juliet Compston
• Julia Prola
• Geoffrey Crompton
• Steve Crompton
• MR M COLGAN
• maureen henderson
• Elaine Jones
• Bruce Adams
• John Johns
• Gillian Deborah hide
• Stephen Scott
• Roger O'Brien
• Brian Burdett
• Katie Mort
• Sara Burdett
• Martin Strzelecki
• Edwina Oldham
• fraser higson
• Simon Montgomery
• Rick Barker
• Alexi Hughes
• jennie castle
• Michelle Barker
• Jenny Harrison
• Beth Yates
• Alan Keith Durbin
• Tom Garner
• Hollie Williams
• Dale Matthews
• Penny Thomas
• Oliver Weston
• Diana Clegg
• Amanda Gleave
• virginia halliwell
• Anthony Speake
• Michael Matthews
• James Nichols
• Nicholas John Penn
• Jane Jesudason
• Charles Jesudason
• Tony Mills
• Iolanda Di Paola
• Giovanni Di Paola
• John Semple
• Cathy Wallington
• Ross Thomasson
• Neil Matthews
• David
• Mary Barrett
• Huw Thomas
• Joel Palmer
• Jo Penn
• gavin gerhold
• Kirsty J Williams
• Garry White
• Louise Jesudason
• Martin Jones
• Stewart Jackson
• Anna Hufton
• Beverley Burgess
• jane lawton
• Joseph Edwards
• F.M.L.Pigot
• Mrs Lyn Morris
• cherry robertson
• jennifer roberts
• franci kippax
• Matthew Cooper
• Nicole Goode
• Charles Aldersey
• william ralph aldersey
• Hannah Caldwell
• Neil Kelly
• Claire Harvey
• david higham
• jane perks
• Kathryn Johnson
• felicity Pochin
• jane kennerley
• Douglas Canavan
• Julie Barnes
• Peter L.Wright
• William Hatton
• Myra Garlick
• david garlick
• Bronwen Hawke
• Edward Hawke
• Tracey Horton
• Karen Rebbeck
• Steve Buttrick
• John Roderick Marsh
• Dina Hafizova
• Edward Williams
• Michael Bracegirdle
• A W Jackson
• Karen Neary
• Veronica Clegg
• claire back
• Richard Storey
• Glen Carty
• Felicity Marsh
• Kate Humphreys
• Andrew Blaikie
• Brian George Hasprey
• Lauren Wilson
• Steve Nixon
• Vicky Stock
• Michael Willig
• emily willig
• David Vaughan
• kerry mannion
• Hannah Lucas
• Pauline Whitehurst
• Carly Meacher
• Sarah Bracegirdle
• Kevin Smith
• David Philip Barnes
• vicki greenall
• Matthew Bracegirdle
• Peter Marsland
• Lauren Mottram
• Brenda Bainbridge
• Andrew Mannion
• Will Squires
• Melanie Court
• Sebastian Clegg
• Therese Eltringham
• Elizabeth Corlett-Moss
• Jenny Pearce
• Peter Oakes
• MIKE VAWDREY
• Charles Ian Bateman
• Timothy Selfe
• Peter Lord
• Catherine Stewart
• Tim Wonnacott
• Helen Wonnacott
• Gwyneth Outhwaite
• Douglas Caldwell
• Sam Walters
• Piers Sparrow
• Geoffrey Sparrow
• David Martin
• Francis Peter Martin
• Carole Lloyd
• Elaine Jones
• Vreni Henry
• Dave Clare
• Dr Emma Langman
• Michael Popley
• John Bennett
• S Bazley
• M Bazley
• annette Dawes
• Nick John
• John m. Hehir
• Stephen Hamer
• Simon Bonner
• Sigrid Rutishauser-James
• Fiona Barlow
• Chris Davenport
• Michael Proffitt
• Joanne Pilley
• Becci Clare
• Alessandro Pirolini
• Duncan Brown
• Stephen Greasley
• Sheila Davies
• Francis J McHugh
• Christopher Nash
• a champion
• John Sinnott
• Nick Okell
• Christopher Jones
• John McKenna
• Patricia Routledge
• Peter Granville-Edmunds
• Peter Gordon
• Julie Gordon
• margaret nixon
• Vicki Arnold
• John Waggett
• Geraldine Waggett
• Robert Stanley
• Emily Stanley
• Anne Cardwell
• Laura Cardwell
• emma pinder
• Caroline McGoun
• Denise Jennings
• Adrian P B Long
• Leighton King
• Peter Rose
• Jane and Philip Woods
• Jonathan Sharp
• Lucy Cardwell
• Frank Parsons
• Tony Higgins
• GEORGE LITTLER
• Marian Littler
• Peter Wright
• Mark Darlington
• Caroline Clarke
• Max Richens
• Linda Lord
• Jill Lucas
• J Drew
• Margaret Richens
• David Miles
• Jonathan Hartley Duckworth
• David Kill
• Sheila Blamire
• keith symms
• Victoria Davies
• Myke Gallacher
• luciapaton
• Geoff Blamire
• ROBERT GROOM
• Nigel Hague
• Mrs F J Bowling
• David Stanhope
• Roger Bowling
• Ann Farquhar
• Alan Gardiner
• Graham lawson
• Keith James
• Harry Gordon
• James Nelson
• Andrew Dyson
• Charles Watson
• Ian John Young
• karen McGibbon
• GRAHAM HALL
• Sophie McClellan
• Dave Thompson
• Suzanna Elliott
• Diane Denneny
• John Denneny
• Kristeen Peel
• William Molloy
• Philip Wilson
• Cliff Bagnall
• Lesley Brookes
• Dr.David Arthur
• A J Clement
• Paul Brooks
• Katy Parker
• Max Morrison
• Rod Fishburne
• Alan Gardner
• Nick Groves
• Steven Nixon
• Charles Clarke
• Ann Harris
• Megan Shelley
• Dennis Lee Clowes
• Sarah Mawby
• Michelle Snape
• Mark Sefton
• David Bryant
• Valerie Bryant
• Bryan P Betts
• Peter Foden
• Kevin Carney
• Jennifer Birchall
• sally craig
• Jenny saint
• Amy Bishop
• Darren Morris
• Robert Collins
• Malcolm B Jones
• Howard Carney
• Graham Shaw
• christopher T Sleigh
• Jan McCappin
• Kenneth Craig
• Catherine Davies
• Linda Cooper
• Alison Beesley
• Geraldine Ann Hambridges
• Kiera Hemrattananon
• steve spencer
• John Whitehead
• Letty Whitehead
• Andrew Weston
• susan appleby barnett
• Lee Appleby Barnett
• Sara Hambridge
• Deborah Foote
• Matthew Davies
• Brian Dunning
• David Thomas Massey
• Emma Harris
• Carol South
• Jennie Fergusson
• john adshead
• Roger Turner
• D Fallows
• Eric Wright
• Suzanne Kerry
• peter macfarlane
• Stuart Leather
• Lindsey Hallas
• Angela Robinson
• Hilary Shorrock
• Alan Price
• Mrs Joanna McILHATTON
• Jane Nicholls
• Anne Hornby
• Michael Edmond
• Peter Hallas
• Philippa Creighton
• Clare Brocklesby
• Jennifer Greenacre
• Megan Manley
• Andrew MacDonald Craig
• Urszula Oakes
• Barrie Netting
• cathie stone
• Alan Dransfield
• Joanne Mitton
• David Pleavin
• Chris Perks
• arthur cropper
• Jean Carol Griffiths
• Reginald Chambres
• Ted Hawker
• Daniel Nield
• Joe Cowell
• Michael Anthony Hems
• Alan Moses
• A.R.Murison
• Daniel Stears
• Cathy Gowler
• Terry Savage
• peter macgillivray
• josephine a emery
• Susan Johnson
• suedavenport
• David Grieve
• Clive Richardson
• Adam Jeffs
• Wendy Foster
• stella spratley
• Sharron Stanley
• Raymond Stanley
• Gordon John Abdey
• Doug Johnson
• Harold Clowes
• John Churchman
• Brigitte Hepburn
• Charlotte Humphreys
• Alan Hepburn
• John Mills B.Sc.
• jean spratt Peter spratt
• Lisa Fell
• Roger Mason
• Rod Bowman
• Colin Nicholson
• Roy Barton
• Michael Seal
• Roger Mapleson
• Anne Chambres
• Penny Thomas
• Katherine Crotty
• george duerden
• Chris Buss
• Anthony Duncan
• Melissa
• Jenny Bowman
• JAMES MCCAIG
• Joe Allen
• linsey youngs
• Michael Brown
• Keith Stead
• Beryl May Barton
• James Beattie
• Jane Foster
• Richard Kinsey
• Margaret howard
• Rob Webb
• Clare Hill
• Michael Dee Roberts
• peter moors
• Susan Howarth
• DAVID D. GRIFFITHS
• James Horncastle
• Jonathan Olsen
• Judith Brown
• Vicky Bayer
• Deborah Hardding
• Margaret Hunt
• J Waltho
• karen crowther
• Baebara Heathcote
• Anka de Souza
• Paul Kerr
• Sue Thomas
• J. A. Kendrick
• b r knight
• Howard.Thorp
• Philip Watkins
• Natalie Austin
• Oliver Callis
• Robert Mills
• Jeff Mather
• noel barraclough
• Barry D. Bate.
• Edward Gordon Bowyer
• W Kirkpatrick
• Mylrea Mills
• Lynda Davies
• Rob Beckett
• D.H.Foss
• Jill Bush
• Alison Cartwright
• Alex Black
• Jen Holton
• Miranda Dobson
• Robin Rumney
• David Temple
• bev fletcher
• jim fletcher
• Richard Mills
• Alice Whittaker
• Mary Clinton
• Gemma Cubbin
• Stuart Donn
• Howard Morgan
• Maitland Stobart
• Paul Bell
• Clare Bell
• Stephen Dixon
• Brian Race
• Declan Murphy
• Anthony Smith
• Trevor Johnstone
• Mrs Judith Johnstone
• Peter J. Townsend
• Alan Bell
• Alan Oliver Metcalfe
• Mark James
• Max Roberts
• Ray Bayley
• Karen Simpson
• Paul Gladwell
• Lisa Jones
• Will Eggleston
• amber humphreys
• Lesley Shiner
• Joy Race
• David Dobson
• Roland Dawson
• emma ford
• daniel wilding
• Jack Hammersley
• Rob Glass
• Poppy Helm
• Stuart Holden
• marie buckley
• Sandra Crocker
• Martin Roche
• Lisa Jones
• sharon chisnall
• Paul Nott
• nik alexander
• Alan Huxley
• Brian McMahon
• roger dilnutt
• Eileen A. Stanton
• Richard Race
• sam clewes
• bill oneill
• Janet Thompson
• David Thompson
• Cheryl Carpenter
• P.S. Watkins
• harry dale
• david hall
• Michael Glasspole
• Linda Glasspole
• elizabeth vernon
• Jacinta Russell
• Paul Chaplin
• Jonni Papworth
• Hannah Martyn
• Joanne Frances Evans-Stone
• Richard Brown
• Gerald Leach
• Vicky Gray 08Bullying
• Yorkie
• Charlotte Williams
• marion cook
• J Maguire

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

Show all signatories