Stop betting shops taking over our high streets Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-betting-shops-taking-over-our-high-streets.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:52 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition mr Billy Smith [Signature #282] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19438469?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Nov 2015 04:20:05 UTC 19438469 mr VIOLETA KALAJDZIC [Signature #281] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18106238?utm_medium=rss We, the undersigned, call on Parliament to amend the Gambling Act 2005, to give local authorities greater powers to refuse Gambling Licenses and Planning Permission to betting companies.

We demand a separate planning class for betting shops that gives councils and residents the power to determine their location and overall numbers.

]]> Wed, 5 Nov 2014 03:36:22 UTC 18106238 katrina kanester [Signature #280] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18104154?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 Nov 2014 04:45:51 UTC 18104154 Ms Federica Pozza [Signature #279] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18101819?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:46:47 UTC 18101819 Miss Lauren Feather [Signature #278] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17156678?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Apr 2014 07:22:15 UTC 17156678 paola p [Signature #277] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17065744?utm_medium=rss Thu, 20 Mar 2014 04:13:37 UTC 17065744 Ebhelyn Leate [Signature #276] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16734576?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Feb 2014 04:59:46 UTC 16734576 Ricky Murray [Signature #275] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16479566?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:41:38 UTC 16479566 Mr Jan Sørensen [Signature #274] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16468679?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Dec 2013 07:20:04 UTC 16468679 miss zoe waite [Signature #273] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16326819?utm_medium=rss these are adversly affecting the poor and desperate and only make their problems worse...inciting addiction, debt and poverty.

]]> Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:39:47 UTC 16326819 Danielle Mcdonald [Signature #272] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16326664?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:30:57 UTC 16326664 miss alex rudman [Signature #271] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16326189?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:55:30 UTC 16326189 MS Lília Gracielle Silva [Signature #270] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16102820?utm_medium=rss Amor e Justiça

]]> Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:48:12 UTC 16102820 ms ondine daniels [Signature #269] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16102766?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:37:17 UTC 16102766 Anonymous [Signature #268] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16102753?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:35:44 UTC 16102753 mr narinder siingh [Signature #267] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16044755?utm_medium=rss Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:41:20 UTC 16044755 ms Ocean Summer [Signature #266] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15140310?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:55:49 UTC 15140310 Mr Jim Kirkpatrick [Signature #265] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14980082?utm_medium=rss the gaming act as currently constituted circumvents the democratic process and should,at the very least, be altered to allow the public, or their councils, a principal say in the granting of gaming licences in their area.

]]> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:49:33 UTC 14980082 Mrs Collette McGovern [Signature #264] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14832469?utm_medium=rss They are like vultures picking the bones off quite often the poorest in society the regulations (or lack of them) have become way too relaxed yet another tax on the poor it sickens me

]]> Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:31:18 UTC 14832469 Laura Carr [Signature #263] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14577571?utm_medium=rss Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:15:12 UTC 14577571 ms Anonymous [Signature #262] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14218166?utm_medium=rss My local high street in colindale/the hyde in NW9 has been taken over by betting shops. There is a William Hill, Bet Fred, Paddy Power, Coral, Ladbrokes, Bet 365 and Jennings.... all in about 200meters! This small area (nicknamed locally as "The Stretch") has become a no go area for young children and women after a certain hour in the evening!

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:34:46 UTC 14218166 Mr David Roots [Signature #261] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13505794?utm_medium=rss Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:12:51 UTC 13505794 Anonymous [Signature #260] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13377240?utm_medium=rss Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:46:44 UTC 13377240 mrs irene brockley [Signature #259] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13270917?utm_medium=rss Sun, 8 Jul 2012 08:06:29 UTC 13270917 Mr curtis coburn [Signature #258] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13123234?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:34:48 UTC 13123234 Mrs Christine Britton [Signature #257] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13089453?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:28:16 UTC 13089453 Michael Cafferkey [Signature #256] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13017589?utm_medium=rss Thu, 7 Jun 2012 03:37:21 UTC 13017589 Anonymous [Signature #255] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12826864?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 07:51:37 UTC 12826864 Mr Andrew Craine [Signature #254] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12581405?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:51:38 UTC 12581405 mr Richard Murphy [Signature #253] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12403901?utm_medium=rss gambling effects and aims paticuarly at the umemployed in the area i live in. (portsmouth.)
jobs are rare around here even for qualified and skilled workers.the thought of making easy money when everyones on jsa (50 quid a week) especially when people want to live and have a social life. the bookies tempt people in. i know gambling addicts who compare their addictions to the thought of themselves being hooked on crack cocaine.

]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:37:10 UTC 12403901 Mr Craig owen [Signature #252] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12401478?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:28:57 UTC 12401478 Mrs Sarah owen [Signature #251] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12401475?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:28:12 UTC 12401475 Mrs Tracy Bovington [Signature #250] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12401462?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:25:23 UTC 12401462 Mr Keith George Sanders [Signature #249] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12401454?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:24:02 UTC 12401454 Mrs Saidie Sanders [Signature #248] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12401446?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:22:26 UTC 12401446 Mr Keith Sanders [Signature #247] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12401440?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:21:31 UTC 12401440 Miss Laura Mahoney [Signature #246] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12401023?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:08:28 UTC 12401023 Ms Brenda Brown [Signature #245] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12258594?utm_medium=rss Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:06:29 UTC 12258594 Ms S Bradford [Signature #244] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12246366?utm_medium=rss There used to be a bank on every corner, now it's betting shops; encouraging debt, dispair, street drinking and other anti social behaviour. It's a negative message to school children who regularly use the bus stops on our high street in west london.

]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:49:23 UTC 12246366 mrs Susan Campbell [Signature #243] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12226534?utm_medium=rss Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:35:10 UTC 12226534 Mr Michael Deeley [Signature #242] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12198324?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:04:42 UTC 12198324 Ms H Leybourne [Signature #241] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12117051?utm_medium=rss Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:00:07 UTC 12117051 Mr. Sascha Humphrey [Signature #240] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12113135?utm_medium=rss Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:15:18 UTC 12113135 Mrs Dawn Easter [Signature #239] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11862174?utm_medium=rss Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:56:40 UTC 11862174 sabah ahmad [Signature #238] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11479420?utm_medium=rss full of drunk punters and druggys
making it unsafe for children and women

]]> Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:52:55 UTC 11479420 mr philip edwards [Signature #237] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11390240?utm_medium=rss save the vunrable from extreme poverty

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:04:14 UTC 11390240 miss amber shirley [Signature #236] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11375931?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:02:57 UTC 11375931 Miss Victoria Salter [Signature #235] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11212382?utm_medium=rss Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:40:44 UTC 11212382 Mr Shane Batt [Signature #234] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11211877?utm_medium=rss Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:54:14 UTC 11211877 Ms Samantha White [Signature #233] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11031666?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:32:57 UTC 11031666 Ms Sally Nicholson [Signature #232] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10852495?utm_medium=rss Gambling is an addiction, the last thing any responsible government should do is to sanction the proliferation of betting shops on our high streets, which both destroy he character of such streets and facilitate addictive behaviour

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:28:18 UTC 10852495 Elena Corsi [Signature #231] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10796165?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 08:35:00 UTC 10796165 Ms Sarah Hatch [Signature #230] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10572577?utm_medium=rss Sun, 29 May 2011 03:26:19 UTC 10572577 mrs c harvey [Signature #229] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10564042?utm_medium=rss gambling rarely helps the punters. tax office and betting shops are the benificiaries in from the stakes

]]> Sat, 28 May 2011 05:39:35 UTC 10564042 Mr Daniel Adams [Signature #228] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10472797?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 May 2011 07:01:10 UTC 10472797 mrs chris harvey [Signature #227] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10471850?utm_medium=rss gambling is an illness that some companies profit from there are more betting shops than doctors surgery s

]]> Mon, 16 May 2011 04:49:39 UTC 10471850 mrs Renu Kaul [Signature #226] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10465464?utm_medium=rss Please change the Gambling Act of 2005 to give our communities all over the country the power to SAY NO to betting shops opening up where there already enough.

]]> Mon, 16 May 2011 05:48:54 UTC 10465464 mr william edwards [Signature #225] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10458452?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 May 2011 04:43:58 UTC 10458452 Ms Eve Clarke [Signature #224] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10414565?utm_medium=rss I cannot understand why an area that is so deprived has has been allowed to open so many bookmakers in such a confined area.

]]> Sun, 8 May 2011 10:30:09 UTC 10414565 Mr N Davies [Signature #223] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10383643?utm_medium=rss Well done on the campaign - I urge signers of this petition to also sign the Ban FOBTs from the high street petition also - it is the growth in betting terminals that is fuelling the inexorable rise in the number of bookmakers in the high street

]]> Wed, 4 May 2011 08:42:36 UTC 10383643 Michael WEnyon [Signature #222] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10332307?utm_medium=rss Enough already!

]]> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:49:08 UTC 10332307 Mr Adam Barrett [Signature #221] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10231405?utm_medium=rss Can there hours be changed s o they can't be open after 7pm mid week and can't open on Sunday

]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:26:07 UTC 10231405 Mr Afzal Choudry [Signature #220] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10173191?utm_medium=rss Huge profits created out of addiction and little or no social conscience or responsibility. It has to stop

]]> Wed, 6 Apr 2011 02:56:31 UTC 10173191 Miss Anonymous [Signature #219] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10154476?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Apr 2011 08:21:52 UTC 10154476 Mr John Patterson [Signature #218] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10128927?utm_medium=rss Fri, 1 Apr 2011 04:19:32 UTC 10128927 Mr Bill Ambrose [Signature #217] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10121020?utm_medium=rss High Streets should be pleasant to walk down with shops, cafe's, restaurants, one or two betting shops maybe etc etc
Not one betting shop after another. This has to change.

]]> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:42:15 UTC 10121020 mr dale sencier [Signature #216] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10112753?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:11:26 UTC 10112753 Mr Dale Sencier [Signature #215] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10099332?utm_medium=rss Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:31:58 UTC 10099332 Mr George Hartley [Signature #214] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10076742?utm_medium=rss Betting shops are a waste of money and time! Bring back the traditional book shops and sweet shops! We don't want all this betting rubbish cluttering up our streets!!!

]]> Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:12:24 UTC 10076742 mr joe haughton-malik [Signature #213] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10076610?utm_medium=rss Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:31:19 UTC 10076610 Anonymous [Signature #212] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10049178?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:51:44 UTC 10049178 Mr Anonymous [Signature #211] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10047968?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:18:15 UTC 10047968 Wozzy Brewster [Signature #210] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10011229?utm_medium=rss Stopping making money from people living on hopes and dreams, surrounded by limited futures. If you look at more affluent areas there are fewer betting shops, yet, it seems to be okay that you allow betting shops to be almost next door to each other in areas that are not so wealthy. STOP making money from poorer communities.

]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:37:57 UTC 10011229 Ms Elizabeth Ixer [Signature #209] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9981547?utm_medium=rss I have 5 betting shops within a minutes walk from my front door on the high street

]]> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:10:28 UTC 9981547 Ms Lucy Jaffe [Signature #208] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9980420?utm_medium=rss The clustering of betting shops on Green Lanes, London N4, is a blight on our high street, bringing temptation and social ills, including drinking, smoking and begging. A change in planning law will make all the difference.

]]> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:18:16 UTC 9980420 Mr. Sascha Humphrey [Signature #207] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9959425?utm_medium=rss More than one betting shop within 1/2 mile of each other should be sufficient for most people and areas!

]]> Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:26:53 UTC 9959425 Mrs Amy Bodman [Signature #206] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9947782?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:19:05 UTC 9947782 mr Richard Habershon [Signature #205] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9938060?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:36:02 UTC 9938060 Derek Traylor [Signature #204] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9934452?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:26:33 UTC 9934452 Mr Tim Symonds [Signature #203] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9930357?utm_medium=rss Betting for many people is a slippery slope which leads to ruin and we already have too many beggars on our High Street.

]]> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:24:01 UTC 9930357 Mr David Williams [Signature #202] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9834650?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:04:31 UTC 9834650 Mr Alan Ross [Signature #201] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9825635?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:10:07 UTC 9825635 Mr Anonymous [Signature #200] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9820676?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Mar 2011 07:13:56 UTC 9820676 Ms Shaziya Uddin [Signature #199] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9818475?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Mar 2011 02:49:18 UTC 9818475 Ms Malika Mezeli [Signature #198] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9816413?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:29:27 UTC 9816413 Mr Zach Christmas [Signature #197] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9815928?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Mar 2011 06:18:29 UTC 9815928 Mr Andrew Wilson [Signature #196] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9814174?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Mar 2011 03:26:40 UTC 9814174 Ms Lea Ouai [Signature #195] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9812633?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:26:46 UTC 9812633 Miss Suniti Lea [Signature #194] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9812547?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:16:56 UTC 9812547 Mr Dan French [Signature #193] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9810993?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:14:59 UTC 9810993 ms cecile cresson [Signature #192] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9810870?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:00:32 UTC 9810870 ms rachel page [Signature #191] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9808831?utm_medium=rss Too many!

]]> Wed, 2 Mar 2011 04:19:08 UTC 9808831 mr brian beveridge [Signature #190] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9805884?utm_medium=rss my brother has had a gambling addiction since he was 17 years old and this goverment does nothing to help gambling addicts in the uk because it makes a profit from their missfortune by it's gambling taxes . this goverment is only interested in making money , not helping addicts , like how it creates more tax on alcohol and cigarretes , all for our benefit of course .

]]> Tue, 1 Mar 2011 05:23:36 UTC 9805884 mr mike bogucki [Signature #189] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9803039?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:21:29 UTC 9803039 Miss Naomi Shakespeare [Signature #188] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9790598?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:00:24 UTC 9790598 Mr Jonathan Bishton [Signature #187] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9786813?utm_medium=rss Gambling is addictive. People don't need any more opportunities to be drawn into debt.

]]> Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:48:36 UTC 9786813 Cadet Alex Wood [Signature #186] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9786110?utm_medium=rss Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:04:18 UTC 9786110 miss katee woods [Signature #185] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9751063?utm_medium=rss Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:37:53 UTC 9751063 N Neoman [Signature #184] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9743450?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:30:13 UTC 9743450 Elena Corsi [Signature #183] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9730018?utm_medium=rss This is so depressing. There are already so many betting shops on Deptford High Street. I cannot for the life of me believe that another one wants to open shop here. London is fast becoming an ugly city full of dismal betting shops, greasy chicken joints, and pound shops.

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