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Stop the East West Rail (EWR) project. Save our homes and farmland.

Submitted by Matilda Fenttiman on Sunday 12th October 2025

Published on Thursday 11th December 2025

Current status: Open

Open until: Thursday 11th June 2026

Current Signatures: 112
(count is updated approximately hourly)

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Tagged with

Chalk ~ Communism ~ Communities ~ Countryside ~ Damaged ~ destruction ~ east ~ East West ~ Ensure ~ Face ~ Homes ~ irreversible ~ local ~ Owls ~ Projection ~ rail ~ risk ~ Route ~ Streams ~ supply chains ~ West

Petition Action

Stop the East West Rail (EWR) project. Save our homes and farmland.

Petition Details

Immediately stop the EWR project and protect our countryside. Invest in repairing and improving existing rail infrastructure to help ensure more punctual, clean services with better facilities—before creating new lines that we think could devastate farmland, wildlife habitats, and rural communities.

Additional Information

We think the EWR project threatens communities, homes, and farmland, putting local supply chains and food supplies at risk. Centuries-old hedgerows, chalk streams, and habitats for barn owls, lapwings, skylarks, bats, and more could face destruction. Stop this project before what we believe to be irreversible damage could be done. And, if a new route is to be taken, choose one of the other proposed routes that we consider to be less environmentally destructive.


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