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Petition update, 28 September 2009

More details from petition creator

Community sports clubs bills for waste water drainage have risen at an alarming rate due to water regulator OFWAT’s guidance to utility companies to move to ‘site area charging’ for drainage. This model fails to distinguish between community facilities and commercial buildings.

In addition to drainage charges, clubs are also facing significant increases in installation and supply fees for water, gas and electricity. At the root of this problem is the fact that legislation currently distinguishes only between domestic and commercial premises – and as sports clubs are not domestic, they are by default treated as commercial entities. CCPR believes that legislation should recognise a new category of ‘community building’ including buildings such as sports clubs, village halls and churches, which would be subject to lower fees.

Current signatories

Rachel Hudson, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• TED LEWENDON
• Andrew Hart
• Helen Tan
• Matt Zeqiri
• Tom Bage
• Dominic Goggins
• jonathan kinsella
• Candice Monaghan
• Kari Mawhood
• Lindsay Sutherland
• Chris Goodall
• Ruth Hudson
• Gordon Rennie
• James MacDougall
• Richard Norman
• Edward Vernon
• Cathy Dawes
• Andrew Hanson
• Aaron Campbell
• Sam Bardwell
• Kate Lawrenson
• Michael Hudson
• Tom Crick
• Karen Lake
• Laura Pugh
• Duncan Shields
• Terry Sutherland
• Alan Bennet
• A Summers
• Norman Crawley
• Angela Wilson
• Phillip Stillman
• John Barber
• Nicky Kent
• loveday hickey
• Matt Chylewski
• catherine
• Alexandra Ennis
• Nicholas Hudson
• Philip Gegan
• Matt Betts
• Ivor Biggun
• Barry Capal
• Simon Cocheme
• peter hasenson
• Richard Acaster
• Jerry Cope
• r.bolton
• Brian Lamb
• James Ewington
• Jeremy Dhondy
• Robert Cooper
• Ian Grant
• Jim Grant
• Hayden Dando
• Alan Brown
• Robert James
• Leisa Forrest
• Ian Austerberry
• Susan Hammacott
• Frances Bowerman
• Terri McAllister
• Rachelle Green
• Robin Barker
• LIZ FOSTER
• Tom Dessain
• Allen Bewley
• Percy Pancack
• Colin Nugent
• john pelley
• Jennifer M Nutt
• Christine March
• K.W.Elstow
• Sandra Nicholson
• David A Price
• jeffrey morris
• Ed Scerri
• Richard Fleet
• Myles Ellison
• Alan Crabtree
• Julia Brough
• Eric Brough
• David Calcutt
• David Burrows
• Stuart Knox
• Alan Dean
• Diane Dean
• Joanna Walters
• richard millard
• Trevor Ward
• Robert Sassoon
• F Conquest
• Bruce Franklin
• Kim Pannett
• Maria Edwards-Hughes
• Barry Read
• Michael H Rawlins
• Elena Jeronimidis
• Liz Bryan
• ashley rosen
• W E Harper
• Christine Bosworth
• Annie Keeling
• Julie Allen
• Leslie Winters
• Colin Haywood
• Simon Whiteside
• Michael Craven
• Rosemary Price
• Steve MacNeil
• Dave Dorward
• Peter Spittlehouse
• Joyce Pickford
• Mr Derrick C Haughton
• Colin Grahamslaw
• S Pritchard
• Louise Warvill
• Roy Martin
• ccpr
• Peter James Cartwright
• Albert Pankhurst
• Pat Stacey
• alison colquhoun
• Mark Newing
• Marilyn Henry
• Laura Jenkins
• moragh leask
• Glynn Elwick
• Lawrence Chapman
• Phillip Wressell
• Barry Brown
• Elisabeth Cocking
• Amanda Black
• Ian Swanson
• ANN THORP
• John Rowland Hall
• Christian Science Church
• Malcolm Oliver
• G J Nicholas
• W McCarthy
• Stephen Anderson
• H. L. Hinman
• Alf Manders
• linda curtis
• Babs McWilliam
• susan goldfinch
• Mr R.D.Raddish
• F A Forsyth
• Chrisitne Double
• John Peter Kershaw
• Paula Woodward
• Mr Graham Furness
• Louise Osborne
• Keith Harvey
• Reginald G. lloyd
• Hazel Colton
• Derek Wilson
• George Metcalfe
• john delafield
• George Knight
• Peter Williams
• John C Armstrong
• Robin Willis-Fleming
• Roger Starling
• Mike Jefferyes
• Diana King
• Craig Lowrie
• Tessa Whiting
• Michael Pointon
• Colin G Wray
• ian ashdown
• Vincent Earl
• A. Damian le Roux
• Brian Goodspeed
• Pete Stratten
• David Clews
• andrew longhurst
• Angus Buchanan
• Hilary Cartwright-Taylor
• Peter Warner
• Merv Bull
• Glenn Turpin
• David West
• Trevor Allsopp
• Richard Smith
• John Haigh
• Andrew Taylor
• John Taylor
• Mark Sanders
• Elizabeth Dunn
• Graham Dunn
• Dave Rowntree
• Maxwell William Poole
• Thomas Chappelow
• J m Learoyd
• Roy ingamells
• Andrew Wrigley
• Craig Olley
• Chris Baume
• Norman Lavender
• Thomas Anthony Hollings
• Mark Perrier
• Terence Paul Bassett
• Rob Faulkner
• David Bernard Brown
• Peter Ronfell
• Chris Fiorentini
• Clive Bruce
• Anthony Machin
• Jeremy Fawthrop
• Joan Snape
• David Birtwhistle
• Brian Pritchard
• Robert Golding
• Helen Fraser
• Ed Watkinson
• Guy Westgate
• Paul Frost
• Jack
• Maurice Davis
• Christopher Burrows
• colin ellis
• Tony Flannery
• Michael Corcoran
• Mr A M Blackburn
• Peter Gray
• Mr. A. Anglicas
• Roger Fenton
• David Philip Harrison
• D.A.Senior
• David Martin
• Colin Hinksman
• Ian Hutchinson
• R S Bollom
• Ian N. McRae
• Christopher Knapp
• Nigrl Batchelor
• Michael Armstrong
• John Shipley
• David Bailey
• Michael Dowling
• Peter Harris
• Norma McRae
• Edward C Neighbour
• Phyllis M.Neighbour
• Robert J Makin
• Chris Riley
• Christina Shipley
• John M A Shannon
• Andrew Lomas
• Rosemary Pykett
• Mark Lench
• Adrian Long
• john Davies
• Tom Beck
• Peta Beck
• Anthony James
• Brian Connaughton
• David Anthony Bell
• Trevor John Watcham
• John Shaw
• Pam Shuttleworth
• Chris Cooper
• john friend
• Stuart Dodson
• Andrew James Bardgett
• Michael Collins
• Malcolm Hodgson
• A G ETTRIDGE
• John Matthews
• Michael Downie
• Graham Higgins
• Robert Bowhill
• D C Collins
• william allan kerr
• Richard Fitch
• swhitaker
• Colin Robinson
• D Burton
• Bill Longstaff
• Roger Wood
• Martin Harbour
• Warwick Horne
• Tim Pickering
• Lisa Goddard
• Ronald G A Eckford
• Alan Haimes
• John Maddison
• chris gadsby
• Christopher Ruff
• david redfearn
• paul newby
• John Salvin
• Thomas E. Snoddy
• robert tatlow
• David King
• Ronald Vickers
• Christopher Hollywell
• J ulie Starling
• Shirley Maddex
• Craig Hobson
• Ron Sangster
• robert paul lloyd davies
• Peter White
• ian burgin
• Richard Poole
• Roy Kempton
• Dr Keith Dykes
• Malcolm Brocklehurst
• Paul Hampshire
• Glenn Barratt
• michael davtes
• Jim Tucker
• Paul Stedman
• Howard Joseph
• R Downing
• Frank Reilly
• Jason Heath
• Tom Wickersham
• Ian Richardson
• Oliver Williams
• alan dibdin
• Alan Docherty
• Mary Docherty
• Karen Tonks
• Malcolm Boyack
• John Reynolds
• Jean Reynolds
• Steve Tonks
• G Hasluck
• John Timmis
• Eric Castle
• Gina Dixon
• Martin Powell
• katie simmonds
• Simon David Hawkin
• Roger Bray
• David Alty
• Peter Gresham
• G.Harris
• Chris Brayne
• sanjeev masson
• Tony Milburn
• Chris Hockly
• ian symms
• robert cronk
• John Canton
• Barbara Edwards
• Stuart ward
• Gary Tester
• Edward Fitzgerald
• Julia Markham
• Karen Tonge MBE
• Diane Corscadden
• Rod Walmsley
• Graham Wormald
• Peter Corscadden
• Paul Salmon
• Radulf Bertschinger
• Jennifer Moss
• Jackie Brown
• SALLY HARRIS
• Laura Whelan
• Finlay McPhail
• Janet Adamson
• Leslie Rayment
• Chris Bridgman
• Rick Bradfield
• Paul Wild
• C.Robinson
• Ian Carrick
• jim pond
• Ian Bridge
• James Challinor
• Stephen Challinor
• Brian Clark
• Steve Cullen
• Frank Robinson
• david hadcroft
• Gary Fittes
• Andrew Wallis
• Frank Carrodus
• James Birdsey
• Mark Fallon
• Stuart Watson
• Ken Leach
• Michael Davis
• elaine farmer
• brian Lennox
• Sylvester Walsh
• Andrew millhouse
• Colin Edgar
• Tom Tamplin
• Steven Hardicre
• Graham Brownley
• Val Lawson
• Norman Carter
• Peter J Slater
• stephen graham
• DAVID CALCUTT
• graham smith
• Shona Tate