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Prohibit loud fireworks from being bought by the public. Allow them at events.

Submitted on Saturday 8th November 2025

Rejected on Monday 8th December 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Prohibit loud fireworks from being bought by the public. Allow them at events.

Petition Details

Withhold loud fireworks from being publicly bought (and sold), only allow silent fireworks. Allow loud large ones only to be bought by arranged event organisers. This helps to reduce tress, injury and other negative outcomes of loud fireworks. (And fireworks in general)

Additional Information

Loud fireworks are stress causers for animals and individuals with PTSD, they are used as weapons (aimed at people), harm the wildlife and directly overworks the NHS with accident victims. Limiting access to fireworks will help to reduce these hazards and risks. Only allowing them to be used in arranged events would helps to reduce these harmful consequences.


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This petition was rejected

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 the following petition, which calls for similar action:

"Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only"
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732559

Fireworks marketed as 'silent' still produce some noise. You may also wish to sign one of these petitions, which call for similar action:

"Reduce the maximum noise level for consumer fireworks from 120 to 90 decibels"
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/738192

"Reduce the sound of fireworks to under 80 decibels for humans and animals"
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/739674

"Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only"
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732559

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