Paper and online petitions
Find out how you can send
and sign petitions, both electonically and on
paper.
- Electronic petitions
- Latest paper petitions
- Telephone: 01244 975970
- Email: petitions@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
- Address: Head of Legal and Democratic Services, Floor 4 HQ, 58
Nicholas Street,
Chester, CH1 2NP - Petition scheme (PDF, 201KB)
Your petition
All petitions sent or presented to the Council will receive an acknowledgement from us within 10 working days of receipt.
This acknowledgement will set out what we plan to do with the petition. We will treat something as a petition if it is identified as being a petition, or if it seems to us that it is intended to be a petition.
Presenting to the Council
Petitions can also be presented to a meeting of the Council. These meetings take place at least six times a year and, dates and times can be found on online:
If you would like to present your petition to the Council, or would like your Councillor or someone else to present it on your behalf, please contact Democratic Services at least 10 working days before the meeting and they will talk you through the process.
Debates at Council
If your petition has received 1500 signatures or more it will also be scheduled, should you wish it to be, for a Full Council debate (providing all the signatures are submitted at the same time and that the subject is appropriate e.g. does not relate to a planning or licensing application) and if this is the case we will let you know whether this will happen at the same meeting or a later meeting of the Council.
If your petition has received over 750 signatures it will be scheduled, should you wish it to be, for consideration at an appropriate Scrutiny Committee.
The Council’s Privacy Policy applies to all Petitions.
Executive arrangements petitions
Residents of Cheshire West and Chester can submit a petition asking for an elected mayor for the Council, and if the number of signatures reaches 5 per cent of the electorate a referendum can be held.
In February 2011 5 per cent of the electorate amounted to 12,604 people.