RAF Driffield Petition Volunteers WANTED

RAF Driffield Petition

Thinking of setting up a proper petition to save RAF Driffield. The premise is simple, former RAF Driffield is owned by Strawsons Property. They plan to demolish the camp at Driffield and build 500 hundred houses. My plan is to present a petition to everyone involved in the planning process.

The thing about petitions is that they are largely innocuous and quickly disappear from sight. You present a petition to some bigwig and then what? My proposal is to email a word.doc petition form to my family, friends and supporters, which they can print off and get others to sign. They would then post the form/s back to me. I would then scan the pages to make book.

There is a superb online Print on Demand (POD) service, provided by lulu.com. The premise is simple: I recently published The Death of an Aerodrome, which is a 154 page account of my campaign to save RAF Driffield. The cost per copy was only £4.50. How, even an A4 (400 page) bound copy of the Save RAF Driffield petition, would still be affordable enough to send copies to everyone involved. We are only talking of around 12 copies. I would post these copies direct to the councillors involved, with additional copies going to Strawsons Property, etc. The original would then be symbolically presented to some bigwig, or other.

I’ve tried the gov.uk online petition in the past and it didn’t work for me.

I want to collate signatures from around the UK and the world, then scan and print them as a tool to convince those in power (planning officials) that RAF Driffield is important enough to be preserved through sympathetic redevelopment.

What do you think? If I can get 100 people to collect 100 signatures (four x A4 sheets of paper per person), that’s 10,000 signatures. Still trying to word the petition, though. Interested? Can you help? I need commitment!