PETITIONClosedPetition · petition.parliament.uk
Ban change of land use over a certain acreage or on the edge of towns/villages
Changes of land use above specified acreage or on edge of town/villages must be forbidden, thereby ensuring that essential rural characteristics of local areas are protected.
Last fetched 03 May 2026 · petition.parliament.uk
Signatures
91
signatures
Government response threshold (10,000) · 91/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 91/100,000
Background
We think that far too much of the farmland surrounding towns and villages is owned by single, land-owning families. We think this facilitates the sudden sale of vast tracts of rural countryside for development, thereby completely altering the entire character of towns and villages and over-burdening local services.