Submitted on Wednesday 11th November 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 8th December 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reduce Firework Noise, Hours per Day & Number of Days per Year they are set off
Reduce hours per day fireworks can be set off to 6pm-11pm & 6pm-1am New Year/Recognised celebrations
Reduce the decibels of a firework
Increase costs/criteria for public display licenses
Enforce current regulations regarding livestock
Disallow pop up/ad hoc sellers
Increase penalties for misuse
Every year there are countless examples seen of injuries & deaths sustained from the use of fireworks, people searching out the bigger bangs with no thought to their neighbours, in fact boasting about it. Reducing the number of hours and days would allow people to be better prepared and have measures in place, reducing the noise would allow a chance of being able to drown them out which is currently impossible, reducing the noise has the potential to reduce the appeal for illegal and extreme use
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign some of these petitions calling for similar actions:
Limit the Sale and Use of Fireworks to Organisers of Licensed Displays Only: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/319891
Review and reduce the decibel limit on fireworks sold to the public: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/549758
Make it illegal for fireworks to be set off on days other than Nov 5 and Dec 31: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/559397
Your petition refers to enforcing livestock regulations, but this would be a matter for relevant local authorities and police forces, not the Government or House of Commons.
Your petition also refers to increasing the cost of public display licences, but these are a matter for individual local authorities, not the Government or House of Commons.
We could accept a petition calling for penalties for misuse of fireworks to be increased, or for changes to the times and dates at which fireworks can be released (other than those requests by the above), if you would like to start a new petition on this issue.
The Petitions Committee held a debate on 2 November 2020 on fireworks following the success of a petition about banning the sale of fireworks to the general public, that was started in the last Parliament.
You can watch the debate here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLDheB0lygI
And read a transcript of it here: hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-11-02/debates/F982D230-02C0-4A8B-8A60-D0C51F952944/Fireworks
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