Save our local businesses Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/save-our-local-businesses.html Online petition signatures en-us Thu, 9 Apr 2026 11:32 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ms Jenny TAYLOR [Signature #101] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19792971?utm_medium=rss Cornwall is full of small local busineses and i am one of these. It is a crying shame to think small local businesses will be closed down so that a large store can be built on their site and even more so if they cannot find alternative locations and may have to close down.

We do not need another cheap shop such as Home bargains in Penryn. It only takes about 15 minutes to drive to the one if TRURO if people want to shop there and we should be supporting local businesses instead of closing them down..

No to Home Bargains- would never use it!

]]> Mon, 7 Mar 2016 08:32:28 UTC 19792971 Miss Anonymous [Signature #100] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19767994?utm_medium=rss I Use one of these specialist local business regularly, and too many unique small local businesses are being forced out and lost forever.

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:58:34 UTC 19767994 Mr Emil Stenberg [Signature #99] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19767814?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:13:13 UTC 19767814 Miss Ruth Dignam-Murphy [Signature #98] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19767560?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:09:14 UTC 19767560 MR Anonymous [Signature #97] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19767469?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:28:54 UTC 19767469 Miss Anonymous [Signature #96] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19767464?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:28:03 UTC 19767464 Miss Janey Davis [Signature #95] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19766778?utm_medium=rss This seems madness ! Short term planning, and not a long term sustainable plan for the future of our Town and the people who live and work here. Lets plan for a future instead of looking short term to create long term problems !

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 03:10:34 UTC 19766778 MR DAVID NICHOLSON [Signature #94] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19761954?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:37:23 UTC 19761954 Mrs Madeleine Berks [Signature #93] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19751787?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:51:03 UTC 19751787 Ms Penelope Zapata [Signature #92] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19749456?utm_medium=rss Small local businesses should be protected and encouraged to survive. Larger chain companies are just as fragile in an uncertain economy theses days, but smaller local ones can generate more income and retain valuable profits that would circulate their benefits better within the locality, whereas the larger corporately owned companies would more likely leech profits away from the area and not contribute enough to the economy overall.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:27:00 UTC 19749456 mrs peppi eggins [Signature #91] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19749256?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Feb 2016 02:34:09 UTC 19749256 Mrs Di Coffey [Signature #90] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19749221?utm_medium=rss We MUST retain premises for our small traders. Say NO to big business applications which threaten their existence.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 02:12:19 UTC 19749221 Ms Kate Thomas [Signature #89] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19749205?utm_medium=rss I saw in the West Briton today that traders in the workshops on the industrial estate in Jennings Road are threatened with closure to make way for a new Home Bargains store. Home Bargains have put forward planning application PA15/10579, which will see these workshops demolished. I understand also that there are no alternative premises in the area, so these businesses cannot relocate locally. Even if they moved out of the area, local businesses relying on them would be impacted.

I object to planning application PA15/10579 because we need small businesses with a highly skilled workforce that can provide goods and services to other small businesses in the area. The knock-on effect to the local economy will not just mean that these companies go out of business but that other businesses relying on their services may do as well. In economic terms, this will have a detrimental multiplier effect on the local area. Arguably Home Bargains will bring jobs to the area, but as we all know that is likely to be minimum wage, zero-hours contracts where the workforce relies on benefits to make ends meet. This is not a good alternative. Please oppose this planning application.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 01:55:56 UTC 19749205 Mrs Patricia Veale [Signature #88] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19748378?utm_medium=rss To remove vital local small businesses from their present location when no provision has been made for new units to house them as this will mean job losses, loss of experties, hardship not only for the businesses concerned but for their customers who use them. In some cases there are no other ways for them to get the services they require as the firm may be the only one in the county able to provide them. Provision should be made to relocate these businesses before giving the go ahead for this development, or another site found for the store, A pity houses were built behind ASDA or it would have been ideal there.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:47:04 UTC 19748378 Mr Larry Veale [Signature #87] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19748377?utm_medium=rss To remove vital local small businesses from their present location when no provision has been made for new units to house them as this will mean job losses, loss of experties, hardship not only for the businesses concerned but for their customers who use them. In some cases there are no other ways for them to get the services they require as the firm may be the only one in the county able to provide them. Provision should be made to relocate these businesses before giving the go ahead for this development, or another site found for the store, A pity houses were built behind ASDA or it would have been ideal there.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:43:08 UTC 19748377 Mrs Adele Wiles [Signature #86] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19741949?utm_medium=rss Big retailers should not be able to tread over small local companies!
WINE IN CORNWALL ARE MOVING OUT KERNICK BUSINESS PARK BY END OF FEB 2016.

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:12:50 UTC 19741949 Mr Peter Willans [Signature #85] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19728706?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:26:24 UTC 19728706 Mrs Alma Willans [Signature #84] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19728701?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:23:26 UTC 19728701 Ms Cathie Higginson [Signature #83] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19724958?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Feb 2016 04:02:22 UTC 19724958 Mr Thomas Merritt [Signature #82] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19720905?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Feb 2016 06:56:23 UTC 19720905 Anonymous [Signature #81] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19720682?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:36:32 UTC 19720682 Miss Emma Harper [Signature #80] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19720657?utm_medium=rss Have some compassion for real people, local people. Times are hard enough.

]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:12:47 UTC 19720657 Miss Anonymous [Signature #79] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19720604?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Feb 2016 02:27:23 UTC 19720604 Mr Rob Cloudsley - Daughton [Signature #78] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19720598?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Feb 2016 02:20:29 UTC 19720598 mr Anonymous [Signature #77] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19718901?utm_medium=rss I think its wrong that you are willing to go through with this, putting local cornish buissnesses at risk of closure to make way for another tacky super store.
I have lived in cornwall my whole life and i have seen the changes that have happened to cornwall over the years.
its hard trying to live around the falmouth area (my home town) with everything being changed into a "student town". locals not being able to get jobs find a house to live in and now this i think people shoud think about there actions more...

]]> Tue, 9 Feb 2016 01:26:38 UTC 19718901 Mr Luc Wallace [Signature #76] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19717650?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Feb 2016 04:03:11 UTC 19717650 Sarah Brown [Signature #75] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19717587?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Feb 2016 02:34:32 UTC 19717587 Miss Rebecca Bennett [Signature #74] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19717494?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:46:39 UTC 19717494 Miss Gemma Rodgers [Signature #73] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19717492?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:42:16 UTC 19717492 Mr Tim Hawkins [Signature #72] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19716266?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Feb 2016 05:34:23 UTC 19716266 mr adrian bowditch [Signature #71] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19716007?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Feb 2016 04:18:51 UTC 19716007 Mr Antony Ashton [Signature #70] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19715917?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Feb 2016 04:01:02 UTC 19715917 mr jamie bel [Signature #69] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19715864?utm_medium=rss These are small local business' that the council should be doing everything to help. I am appalled that such a development has been given the go-ahead especially on the basis of false information. The council have every right to refuse the decision, what would happen if the govt. noticed that Mr X was getting too much money after a decision based on false information? Would they say "sorry, its too late", like hell they would

]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2016 03:45:08 UTC 19715864 Ms Sheila Hutchins [Signature #68] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19715752?utm_medium=rss The clue's in the name, this is an industrial estate, not a retail park. Cornwall needs to encourage self employed people, and they need support from strategic planning.

]]> Mon, 8 Feb 2016 03:11:43 UTC 19715752 Emz Birchett [Signature #67] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19711527?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Feb 2016 03:45:56 UTC 19711527 Mrs Suzanna Dell [Signature #66] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19709091?utm_medium=rss Cornwall needs its small businesses and these should be preserved. Home Bargains will not provide anything that Asda, which will be virtually next door, does' already stock and the Falmouth/Penryn area already has Wilko and Poundland plus supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury, Lidls, a small Co-op and other small stores.

]]> Fri, 5 Feb 2016 03:22:00 UTC 19709091 Miss Natalie Bonney [Signature #65] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19708952?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Feb 2016 02:14:46 UTC 19708952 Mrs Jo Phelps [Signature #64] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19699583?utm_medium=rss The businesses in place will suffer if evicted and the plot is not big enough for proposed business

]]> Wed, 3 Feb 2016 01:55:35 UTC 19699583 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #63] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19699365?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Feb 2016 12:47:23 UTC 19699365 Mr Michael Beard [Signature #62] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19697823?utm_medium=rss land and buildings need to be kept for small local businesses. There is not enough property for small businesses now let alone reducing it.

]]> Wed, 3 Feb 2016 04:31:17 UTC 19697823 Mrs Veryan Bennett [Signature #61] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19697800?utm_medium=rss Why do we need yet another large retailer taking away business from local traders who have worked really hard to get where they are. It sickens me that both falmouth and Penryn are being ruined .

]]> Wed, 3 Feb 2016 04:21:21 UTC 19697800 Mr Lee Warren [Signature #60] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19697587?utm_medium=rss I don't want to see another chain store come in to the town at the expense of a number of small businesses. It is incredibly hard to run a small business and these people are the lifeblood of the town. In addition, they employ staff and obviously this is their own livelihoods. The stress this must be causing them is huge and it is all avoidable if we look after our businesses, as we should.

]]> Wed, 3 Feb 2016 02:22:45 UTC 19697587 ms Anonymous [Signature #59] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19694644?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Feb 2016 06:39:28 UTC 19694644 Mrs Stacey Sparks [Signature #58] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19694283?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Feb 2016 04:08:18 UTC 19694283 MR John Langford [Signature #57] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19693216?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:20:48 UTC 19693216 Mr George Perry [Signature #56] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19693073?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Feb 2016 04:17:19 UTC 19693073 Ms Jo Horne [Signature #55] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19692945?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Feb 2016 03:26:59 UTC 19692945 Mr James Evans [Signature #54] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19691736?utm_medium=rss There's a Home Bargains store near Truro already - we don't need another one, they are shit, and we have Trago's already. Also - these premises clearly are NOT vacant, so someone has 'conveniently' made a false claim in the planning application. Only a corrupt planning office/er would allow this proposal to go through (IMHO). I sincerely hope we don't have one of those at CC.

]]> Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:27:20 UTC 19691736 Mr Anonymous [Signature #53] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19690566?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:18:01 UTC 19690566 Paul Buzza [Signature #52] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19690545?utm_medium=rss This will also cause further problems with traffic leaving the industrial estate, which is already bad during peak times.

]]> Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:06:02 UTC 19690545 mr matthew jenkin [Signature #51] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19689999?utm_medium=rss we do not need a home bargains. we do need our small industry.

]]> Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:46:50 UTC 19689999 Mrs Sally Burley [Signature #50] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19688150?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Jan 2016 03:55:56 UTC 19688150 mrs lilian miller [Signature #49] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19686534?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Jan 2016 11:20:07 UTC 19686534 Ms Helen Foster [Signature #48] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19686477?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Jan 2016 11:09:35 UTC 19686477 Mrs Sally Smith [Signature #47] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19686057?utm_medium=rss Small businesses are the lifeblood of the community.we do not need another large retail outlet here.

]]> Sun, 31 Jan 2016 09:44:29 UTC 19686057 Miss Clare DeTamble [Signature #46] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19685757?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Jan 2016 08:36:16 UTC 19685757 Mrs Elisabeth Colclough [Signature #45] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19685335?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Jan 2016 05:55:02 UTC 19685335 Mr Matthew Woolgar [Signature #44] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19685048?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:30:02 UTC 19685048 Miss Claire Curnow [Signature #43] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19683318?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 06:04:40 UTC 19683318 Miss Sarah Carney [Signature #42] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19681928?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:58:38 UTC 19681928 Ms Anonymous [Signature #41] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19679883?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:48:09 UTC 19679883 Reba Guest [Signature #40] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19678293?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 07:05:27 UTC 19678293 Mr Barry Welch [Signature #39] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677952?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 05:38:50 UTC 19677952 Tamar Slattery [Signature #38] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677947?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 05:36:05 UTC 19677947 Mr John Foster [Signature #37] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677931?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 05:29:27 UTC 19677931 Miss Gemma Johnson [Signature #36] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677889?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 05:12:55 UTC 19677889 Mrs Maria Jane Clark [Signature #35] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677884?utm_medium=rss Save all local businesses! Stop the monopoly of the Tory regime!

]]> Sat, 30 Jan 2016 05:11:01 UTC 19677884 Anonymous [Signature #34] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677840?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 04:53:15 UTC 19677840 Megan Jenkin [Signature #33] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677831?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 04:48:39 UTC 19677831 Mr Michael Barker [Signature #32] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677778?utm_medium=rss We need workshops not another shop selling a load of cheap rubbish that nobody needs

]]> Sat, 30 Jan 2016 04:19:34 UTC 19677778 mr pete shepherd [Signature #31] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677742?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 04:02:56 UTC 19677742 miss Sandra Tonkin [Signature #30] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677733?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:58:41 UTC 19677733 Mr David Hyett [Signature #29] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677715?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:48:03 UTC 19677715 anna butler [Signature #28] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677714?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:48:01 UTC 19677714 Mr Mark Evans [Signature #27] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677690?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:37:02 UTC 19677690 mr scott james [Signature #26] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677684?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:36:10 UTC 19677684 Miss Sarah Hatch [Signature #25] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677677?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:34:20 UTC 19677677 Karoliina Arvilommi [Signature #24] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677666?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:28:25 UTC 19677666 nathan long [Signature #23] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677630?utm_medium=rss home bargain stores are a waste of time, bargains on the net are normally better.

]]> Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:14:39 UTC 19677630 Mr David Bell [Signature #22] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677602?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:02:10 UTC 19677602 Mr Anonymous [Signature #21] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677515?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 02:30:15 UTC 19677515 Mrs Claire Jenkin [Signature #20] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19677383?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:48:30 UTC 19677383 Mrs Melanie Picton [Signature #19] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19676795?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:55:39 UTC 19676795 Ms Lesley Saunders [Signature #18] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19676762?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:50:14 UTC 19676762 Mr. Roger Williams [Signature #17] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19669313?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:14:36 UTC 19669313 Mr Pete Banfield [Signature #16] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19668327?utm_medium=rss Absolutely the wrong place to build this. Small businesses should be protected and encouraged to grow not displaced by large corporate companies.

Yes, it is good that Home Bargains want to open in the area but not at the cost to local, established businesses

]]> Fri, 29 Jan 2016 01:59:21 UTC 19668327 Anonymous [Signature #15] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19666827?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:10:43 UTC 19666827 Mr Josh Beardmore [Signature #14] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19666802?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:04:03 UTC 19666802 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #13] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19666680?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:26:38 UTC 19666680 Mr Anonymous [Signature #12] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19666540?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:30:57 UTC 19666540 Mr Phil Hodge [Signature #11] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19666513?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:18:12 UTC 19666513 Anonymous [Signature #10] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19666356?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 07:08:18 UTC 19666356 Miss Katie Townsend [Signature #9] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19666259?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:19:32 UTC 19666259 Mr Neil Penny [Signature #8] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19661751?utm_medium=rss I think that this is a disgrace
The government is meant to be encouraging small businesses not drowning them out with huge retail companies
more small and affordable industrial units should be supplied

]]> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:11:11 UTC 19661751 Mr Anonymous [Signature #7] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19658876?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Jan 2016 03:59:20 UTC 19658876 Mr Neil Capper [Signature #6] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19658858?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Jan 2016 03:56:54 UTC 19658858 Mr Adam Atkin [Signature #5] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19658856?utm_medium=rss As a commercial mortgage broker I see this happening a great deal, albeit not just in Cornwall. The buildings themselves are tired and need puling down to make way for something more attractive and in keeping with some of the newer buildings in the vicinity but there needs to be more starter units available for the small businesses that are binding the economy together.

]]> Wed, 27 Jan 2016 03:56:46 UTC 19658856 mr Carl beardmore [Signature #4] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19658814?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Jan 2016 03:49:40 UTC 19658814 Mr Anonymous [Signature #3] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19658033?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:53:54 UTC 19658033 Mr Keith West [Signature #2] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19657980?utm_medium=rss Not withstanding the loss of local established full tme employers and employees over part time zero hours [student] employment . The design and access statement submitted on behalf of the applicant is either downrite dishonest , deliberately misleading or an act of negligence. It is simply not true.

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