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In this time of rising food prices and potential future oil/energy shortages. We feel that councils should be planting native friut trees ( apple, pear, cherry etc) as a long term policy instead of non native decorative trees. In the future we will be glad of the fact that there places the public can get fruit, that has not had to travel hundreds maybe thousands of food miles to get to the end user. Fruit trees will obviusly take some time to mature enough to be productive, therefore the time to act is now. It would not cost any more to plant native fruit trees, than exotic imports, and councils are forever creating planting schemes, which run in conjunction with housing development sites. Perhaps this could be included in part in the new Code for Sustainable Homes. Modern housing developments tend to have very small gardens, so the possibility of growing food for individual households is difficult. However modern developments do have areas allocated as open spaces which could easily be planted with native fruit trees. In 20 years time, they may be the only source of inexpensive fruit we can locate.

Current signatories

James Turner, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Richard Eden
• toby rodgers
• KATHERINE TURNER
• Andrew Hart
• Sean Smith
• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/tombaker/)
• deborah turner
• Gerhard Lohmann-Bond
• Steve Walker
• andrew croft
• David Rogers
• John Adair
• Carole McGivern
• Jim Hutton
• Rebecca Jackson
• Lizzie Banks
• Hilary Orme
• Julia Podd
• Jonathan Preston
• Karen Jackson
• Amanda Pope
• Sarah West
• Karen Long
• Anthony Sharp
• James
• Alexandra Taylor
• Julian Britton
• Martin Pope
• James Paul Jackson Esq
• keith Shields
• Susan Rooke
• robert futcher
• john feltwell
• Kate Sidaway
• Phillip Trelford
• Katrina Leszczynska
• Paul Wheatley
• Debra Sarialioglu
• Kelly Simons
• Fuchsia Arnold
• V.Jones-Wood
• Julie Wood
• Roland Gilmore
• Gaynor Shenton
• Sharon Stewart
• Alan Carmichael
• patrick mullarkey
• Cllr Christopher Knight
• tony clarke
• Andy
• Sean Kelly
• Marie Beech
• Dan Tonks
• judith O'Brien
• Arron Potter
• V Owen
• Cathy Littlejohn
• Lynette
• ian lander
• Edwood Walker
• Peter Bartley
• Simon Grace
• Jennie Harden
• ANGELINA
• Margaret King
• Sophie Burgess
• susan dzierzynski
• john batty
• angelica westwood
• Simone Lloyd