Three petitions that had met the 3500 signature threshold were presented to the County Council on Thursday.   The petitioners made very cogent logical cases against closure of country parks,closure of household waste recycling centres and the stopping of the eXplore card for young people.  

For six minutes on each petition Councillors made brief debating points ( I covered country parks as two picnic sites due to be divested are in my area) and then each portfolio holder responded saying essentially that ther will be no action in response to the petition.  

This was not much of a reward for all the effort. Where was the commitment to localism? It appears that no further notice will be taken but input from so many people deserves at least a thorough review of. the subject by scrutiny. I will work on that.