Please support our petitions:
Improved bus services in Worcester
The petition, set up by Green Party Councillor Elena Round, calls for regular bus services, including late evenings and weekends.
To sign or for more information click the button below.
Enable school children to get to school safely
Many children in Worcester already walk, wheel or cycle to school and lots more would love to do so if families could be confident that it’s safe. This requires improvements such as more crossing points near schools, segregated cycle lanes and roads with slower speeds. Facilities for making active travel accessible to families with additional needs such as ramps, more public toilets and more benches are also needed.
That’s why we’re launching our petition calling for investment in safe walking and cycling routes for all children. Please sign and share with friends, family, and anyone who supports active travel!
For more information and to sign this petition click the button below:
Adopt vision zero and 20mph for safe and healthy travel
A Vision Zero approach to road safety management is based on the belief that no death or serious injury is acceptable on roads and follows the principles of the Safe System, where the five pillars of the road environment work together to minimise risk:
- Safe roads
- Safe speeds
- Safe vehicles
- Safe road us
- Post-crash care.
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Permit overspill hospital parking in Worcestershire County Hall’s car parks
Traffic congestion at our hospital’s site has been dire for far too long, and the county council has done little to help. For over a year now, staff, patients and visitors have been delayed for hours nearly every day in the hospital car parks—yet the massive car parks at County Hall are almost totally vacant because the building is unusable.
We demand immediate action. A park and ride scheme for hospital staff, visitors and patients has been spoken about for months now, but still nothing is in place. Better local bus services, a park and ride scheme plus more Beryl Bike bays in the area would help significantly.
A new multi-storey car park at the hospital is planned, but this will take several months to be built. We need an end now to the congestion that wastes hours of people’s time, worsens local air pollution and puts pressure on over-stretched ambulance services. Worcestershire County Council’s empty car parks at County Hall are just a few minutes traffic-free walk away from the hospital. Allowing these car parks to be used for overspill hospital parking could reduce congestion on the hospital site immediately, while longer-term solutions are put in place.
Free school meals – feed the future
All children deserve free school meals
Every child should get the healthy food they need to grow and learn. But in 2024, about 2.7 million children didn’t always have enough to eat. Shockingly, 900,000 children living in poverty can’t get free school meals because the rules are too strict. Families must earn less than £7,400 a year (after benefits) to qualify. This isn’t right.
Some schools are even setting up food banks to help hungry children. Other countries like Ireland, Scotland, and Wales already provide free school meals. England is falling behind.
It’s time to fix this. The Labour government has promised to fight child poverty. Now they must act to make sure all children can enjoy healthy, tasty school meals.