E-Petitions
Sign a petition
This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Block amendments to the Highway code to stop people riding horses 2 abreast on the roads, and to formalise horseriders access to cycle paths. More details
Submitted by Ashley Filmer – Deadline to sign up by: 13 August 2007 – Signatures: 19,874
Petition update, 31 August 2007
You recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "Block amendments to the Highway code to stop people riding horses 2 abreast on the roads, and to formalise horseriders access to cycle paths."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page12997.asp
Prime Minister's Office
More details from petition creator
The BHS is asking for last-minute amendments to the new Highway Code, which could be in force in August. The BHS suggested amendments to the new Highway Code to the Secretary of State back in February 2006. But according to BHS director of access, safety and welfare Mark Weston, some have apparently been ignored. The Code will forbid riding two horses abreast on narrow and busy roads and when riding around bends. It will also exclude horses from all cycle tracks. There can be many valid reasons for riding two abreast: groups of riders, nervous horses, novice riders, and defensive riding on winding country lanes where there is insufficient room for a car to pass a single horse safely. Breaches of the Highway Code could potentially be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Acts in order to establish liability in an accident. There are many cycle tracks which have been specifically designed for use by horse riders, and the loss of these would be very serious for those who rely on them.
Current signatories
Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.
- Richard Wells
- Philip Mount
- HARRY WEDDERBURN
- JANET BURLEY
- tamsin stirk
- Michaela Kershaw
- elizabeth jones
- Jane Cross
- Alan Huynh
- brian summerbell
- lorraine green
- Alasdair Mackie
- S J Smith
- Valerie Abell
- Karin Proudfoot
- John H Girling
- andrew bruce trentham
- Christopher P Burton
- Keith Boxall
- Jenny Tunley-Price
- A.J.Cramsie
- robert ellis
- Sheila White
- Janet Hutchinson
- Priscilla Buswell
- tori
- Stevie
- linda greening
- joanne young
- Patricia Nugent
- Owain Davies
- denise nelson-bellehewe
- John Danton
- Janette Dale
- Fiona Stein
- Alan Hill
- Maggie Towner
- Anne Howlett
- Neil Walker
- Paula Woolley
- Peter John Quentin HOUGH
- Isla Cook
- Thomas Sowler
- Chris Wood
- N Pamo
- Mr Tridral
- Joanne Pearson
- victoria seviour
- Stephen Champion
- Patrick Bryans
- E. A. Arnold
- virginia kemp
- Alison Bennett
- A R Campbell
- Lynne Fenwick
- Robert Irwin
- Debbie Irwin
- Roger Backhouse
- tim block
- Julie Andrews
- Robert Nix
- Charlotte Peel
- Diane Swinfield
- John May
- Roderick Oliver
- Angie Tillett
- Diane Jones
- Piers Badnell
- Paul Wakelin
- Sandra-Jane O'Neill
- david frederick abbott
- Barbara Jane McRink
- Nicola Turbitt
- Angus Wood
- Anne Milner
- Sarah Binns
- Trish O'Reilly
- Stephen Richards
- Jenny McKervey
- Rebecca Goulding
- John Murphy
- Gill Saunders
- David O'Hagan
- Holly Gemaine Round
- Edward Adams
- Brian D DUNN
- Julie Matthias
- Nicky Jackman
- Beresford Norman Gibbs
- Guy Mayer
- Stephanie Collet
- M G Mayer
- Michael Mayer
- irena uderska
- Diana Keen
- Tracey
- Becky Somerton
- Patrick Beddows
- Carol Stones
- ALICK GRIEVE
- sue martyn
- Karen Twigg
- Heidi Pryce
- Nicholas Alexander Hamilton
- W. S. Curtis
- Keith D Warman
- lynne corbould
- Will Leslie
- Peter Collins
- Elizabeth Foster
- Mrs G M Girdler
- Suzanne Trowsdale
- Alice Stirling
- Graham Davenport
- Julian Boddy
- Gwen McCreadie
- Rollo Hoare
- Polly Blick
- RD Parker
- Adam Marley
- Fiona Conner
- Anne Smith
- Sara MacDonald
- Philip Todd
- jess
- caro MacKay
- Stella Bond
- david jenkins
- sarah ward
- Heather Mariner
- Richard Rea
- Nancy Taplin
- Anna Pryce
- Robina Taplin
- Pat Bowles
- R.E.Meyrick
- hannah kensey
- Justina Jeffs
- William Packer
- SARA FARMER
- Nicolas Tucker
- Julian Charrington
- Michele Waugh
- Christopher Harding
- John Peasgood
- Penelope Wise
- NESTA GILLILAND
- jane farthing
- Victoria A Bayley
- Prudence Cooper
- David Iain Thomson
- Kathryn Evans
- James Wych
- Patricia Strong
- Billy Russell
- Georgina Grant
- Peter Bamber
- Lydia Caryer
- elaine garth
- Lesley Dampney
- Sarah Palmer
- W.Rayer
- c davies
- russell a meedlen
- louise priestley
- L. C. O'Halloran
- Julia Woodland
- Robert Earl
- Janet Cogan
- Robert Neil Wallace Smith
- Barbara Smith
- Karen Hood
- Katherine Curtis
- Mike Brenton
- Gay Lister
- Katrina Haigh
- Phebe Tyson
- ALpin MacGregor
- Richard Clark
- Denise Wade
- Rebeccah Mathews
- a j waldron
- Diana Wright
- Sally Lloyd-Baker
- Mary Hargreaves
- Leanne Gordon
- Sue Jones-Smithson
- Howard Richardson
- Georgina Sherry
- timothy mills
- Rebecca Firth-Coppock
- John Micklem
- stephen thomas
- poppa mercer
- Alex Grieve
- kim mitchell
- Charlotte Hughes
- Ed Scrope
- Elena Daniilidou
- Sarah Reid
- Rachel Hylton
- Shirley Rabbetts
- Diana Louis
- fiona moore
- Dorothy van Leersum
- mk moore
- Catherine Luxton
- Marianne Holton
- Robert Nock
- Richard Gibbs
- Linda Newham
- jacky lear
- robert marchant
- sandra moss
- Diane Ball
- Debbie Bidmead
- Michael Ferrier
- myra salmon
- Nicky Knafel
- Lois Avery-Wright
- Serena Whitbread
- daniel jones
- Mandy Abdel-Aziz
- Zena Haslam
- Angela Bradshaw
- Susan Fitzpatrick
- michelle pryor
- Lewis Leighfield
- tracey collinson
- Georgina Garner
- vernon thomas
- Martine Cooper
- MICHAEL DAYMAN
- Steve Burrows
- Peter Harman
- Olivia Hurton
- Jenny Peak
- philippa knight
- sally dodsworth
- lisa davies
- Elaine Bird
- Lisa Robertson
- Steven Bird
- NICKI TOMPKINS
- Amanda Sym
- jennings
- Skye Ashmore
- Marco de Alberdi
- Sarah Woods
- victoria smith
- barbara hughes
- Jonathan Anderson
- Geo. Gilder
- Lisa Deeble
- John Featherby
- Timothy Burr
- Pat FitzGerald
- Steve Brice
- Cynthia Harrison
- Sheila Hoare
- alison acton
- Emma McGlinchey
- Maggi Woodward
- Susan Wilson
- Edwina Biss
- Robert Dunn
- susan perkins
- Mike Brook
- Joanna Murray
- Wayne Large
- Selena Greaves
- Cara Hayward
- Susan P Jones
- Peggy Stevens
- John Otway Cave
- Jennifer A Strutt
- A.G.Keith
- Cecilia Bisson
- Dawn Taviner
- Leanne Moses
- Audrey Moore
- KATRINA M MARTIN
- robyn smith
- Val Meredith
- Caroline Roberts
- Sue Cullup-Smith
- Glenna Campbell
- Sally Ruding
- Chris Curtis
- Audrey MacFarlane
- Peter Lawson
- Victoria Elsbury-Legg
- Richard James
- wendy cockwill
- Guy Sampson
- Simon Everdell
- Jude Sockett
- Hazel Lovatt
- Susan C Mitchell
- EMMA BEVAN
- Jill Van Assen
- James Boardman
- Sarah Foster
- marianne rushton
- Su Middleton
- Lizzie Reynolds
- Karen Liddle
- Kirsty Norman
- Anthony Taylor
- Colin Holman
- mrs l a Howell
- James Vernon
- lee lewis
- Andrew Banks
- Jo Ashurst
- Hugh Pye
- John Robins
- Henry Stephenson
- amanda woodhouse
- philippa Rodale
- margaret pyner
- Brenda Harrison
- DAVID BENN
- Maureen Gobener
- Sophie E A James
- Jane Crowe
- Polly Colthorpe
- Alix Tatlow
- JUNE RUSSELL McCAUSLAND
- Lisa Randle
- Stuart Ogden
- Courtney Harley
- bridget wheeler
- Margaret Lockhart
- Katrina Gowing
- Dawn Swannick
- Janice Caine
- lynn bushin
- Jack Aidley
- Pat Rochelle
- Emma Defew
- Francesca Jackson
- caroline lumby
- GEORGINA PASSMORE
- Angela Banks
- H Myerscough
- Holly Swallowe
- Pamela J Fox
- john lynn
- Christine Cullen
- J Jackson
- Julie Ashmore-Smith
- Louise Devitt-Brown
- Annalisa Hughes
- Deborah O'Brien
- Rosemary Lowry
- Ron Fenton
- Miss Susan Simkiss
- Iain MacLeod
- vivienne and andrew pulford
- Angela Vaux
- Helen Wilson
- Helen Metcalfe
- kerry macfarlane
- Nigel Cox
- Brenda Lambert
- Yvonne Tuckley
- Rebecca Sweetman
- gavin culshaw
- samantha bray
- Maggie Tristram
- Andy Poole
- Adam Hughes
- Charles Smith
- Kenneth Duncan
- anne spencer
- Jennifer Adams
- W H Sowerby
- Lesley Yates
- Simon Randall
- Trevor Ford
- amanda & john gard
- Lucy Harvey
- Janet Williams
- Charles B Cook
- tony mccarthy
- Samantha bartram
- Virginia Wiltshire
- Sarah Liddle
- kevin tildesley
- veronica Roberts
- Terry Love
- Jill Love
- Fiona Mortimer
- Deborah Knight
- shona mackie
- Ruth Killen
- Juliet Fenton
- John Gilmour
- Philippa Russell
- Angela Baker
- Frances Luczyc Wyhowska
- Stewart James Keigher
- Simon Bullock
- Debby Collins
- Peter Plunkett
- Celia Burgoyne
- Dominic HJ White
- Nicky Hunn
- Caroline Pearson
- K Phillips
- Claire Partridge
- Valerie Whitby
- margaret powell
- Bunty Ford
- charles wills
- Heather Russell
- Mid Suffolk Bridleways Association
- Natalie Hunter
- Emily Gibson
- Lynn McMenamin
- Kay Abercrombie
- J E J fuller
- Dawn Williams
- Jill Relton
- Jackie Day
- David Harmes
- R Newnham
- Paul Carlbom
- Sylvia Jones
- mandy kirman
- RACHEL CLIFFE
- Maria Prior
- Pamela Morris
- Claire Torkington
- Mrs Sara Cayzer
- Richard Fitton
- Lisa binns
- Clair Mills
- kirsty dawes
- Tim Waters
- R Faulkner
- jeanette hadfield
- katrina purvis
- Joanne Wheeler
- Dee Hanlon
- Emma Salt
- Eileen Shadford
- Sheila O'Kane
- Penelope Fairclough
- Alex Argyropulo
- Miriam Palmer
- Christine Billington
- Michael Ayre
- Sue Milward
- james muggleton
- nikki Hanrahan
- Susan Clark
- lesley barber
- Barry Lewis
- Helen Gadsby
- jenny ashby
- Hilary Davison
- Claire White
- D C MacDonald Milner
- Katharine Burrow
- Lavinia Corbally Stourton
- Luisa Garfagnini
- Sue Jones
- Lucy Blain
- Elaine Lyall
- Niko Tobutt
- laura whyte
- Michaela Dickson
- Anthony Daye
- Dr C Mahmoud
- Natalie Smith
- Rosie Henstridge
- Elizabeth Sparrow
- Lady Devon
- Marie Brown
- Titian Evers
- Ruth Martin
- peter russell
- Lizzie Linklater
- CARL MONKTON
- Rowena Gowen
- Sue Roberts
- Ian Finch
- Katrina Longmuir-Davis
- Lisa Waddingham
- clare vickers
- jan dickinson
- Janet Bowley
- Margaret Yule
- Jim Vannier
- emma allan
- Jane Mann
- Dorothy Gordon
- Giles Pepperell
Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.
