If you wish to raise an issue or concern, or have your views heard on a council matter or policy, you may want to set up a petition. You can submit your petition by post or using our online petition facility. We welcome petitions from service users and/or anyone who lives, works or studies in Surrey.
Surrey County Council's petition scheme (PDF) and the pages below provide a guide on how to set up your petition and how the council will respond to it.
Please note that there is a separate process if your petition relates to a request for new parking controls or restrictions. This would need to be considered as part of a parking review in the area, so you should send your petition to the parking team using the parking scheme request template document. You can find the template on the parking review process page, where there is also more information about parking reviews and how they work.
E-petitions
You can now create and sign petitions online. Using the internet to create an e-petition allows a potentially much wider audience to view your petition and gives you the opportunity to gather more names to support the petition. You may gather names and addresses in both forms - both a paper version and an online version, although repeat names should be removed by the lead petitioner.
Surrey County Council, The Local Authority (Referendums) (Petitions and Directions) (England) Regulations 2000
Publication of verification number
In accordance with Regulation 4(1) of the above regulations the number that is equal to 5 per cent of the number of local government electors shown in the revised register of electors having effect on the 15 February 2024 is: 44,131.
This figure will have effect for the purposes of determining the validity of petitions presented from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
The number equal to 5 per cent of the local government electors for 2025 will be published within 14 days of the 15 February 2025.
If this number is less than 44,131 the number to be used for verification purposes in relation to any petition submitted for the period beginning on the date of publication of the lower number until 31 March 2024 shall also be that lower number.
Monitoring Officer
Surrey County Council
Woodhatch Place
11 Cockshot Hill
Reigate
Surrey
RH2 8EF
Dated: 15 February 2024
Files available to download
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Surrey County Council petition scheme (PDF)
An introduction and overview of the Surrey County Council Petition Scheme.
