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The record
How much people have asked for change on food and farming — through petitions to the UK Parliament, and by speaking or writing in at local council meetings. We can only count demand that reached a published document, so quieter campaigning is missed.
National
Petitions submitted to the UK Government and Parliament via petition.parliament.uk that match one of the food and farming actions we track. The most-signed come first. At 10,000 signatures the government has to reply; at 100,000 the petition may be debated in Parliament.
| Signatures | Petition | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1k | Introduce new rules and protections from development in rural green heartlandsOpenPlanning framework: food-system land use in planning guidanceApr 2026View petition |
Source: petition.parliament.uk — the official UK government and Parliament petitions site. Signature counts are as they stood when we last checked, so a live petition may have more by now.
Local
Actions people have raised at council meetings — by speaking, petitioning or writing in. They are grouped by how many councils each was asked in, most widely asked first. Open a council's page to see what it did about it.
| Action demanded | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Asked for in 4 councils | |
| 4 documents | |
| 4 documents | |
| Asked for in 3 councils | |
| 3 documents | |
| 3 documents | |
| Asked for in 2 councils | |
| 2 documents | |
| Asked for in 1 council | |
| 4 documents | |
| 1 document | |
| 1 document | |
| 1 document | |
| 1 document | |
| 1 document | |
| 1 document | |
| 1 document | |
| 1 document | |
| 1 document | |
Open any row to read the documents behind it and what people actually said. The confidence on each one is our own reading of how clearly the demand was put.