Rejected petition Stop the building of 30 tower blocks in Plymouth, Devon city centre.

To debate the destruction of Plymouth City Centre by allowing the development of 30 tower blocks in the city centre that is no more than a mile wide. The post war infrastructure was built for a low level city and cannot withstand this intense pressures these built would place on it.

More details

Plymouth is one of the last low level city’s in the UK. Many of the new towns, and cities destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the post war period during the 20th century used Abercrombie and Lord Astors vision of a new low level spacious city as the premise for their designs. These plans will alter the city centre forever and it will lose this historic context. Situated on a plateau of land where parts are below sea level the infrastructure and facilities was not built for such intense housing.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It requests action at a local level.

We can’t accept petitions that call for action at a local level.

You could ask your MP to take action on your concerns about this issue, including by asking them to present a public (paper) petition about this.

You can find contact details for your local MP here: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

And you can find out how to ask your MP to present a public (paper) petition here: https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/sign-a-petition/paper-petitions/

You could also raise your issue with a local councillor who represents you. You can use this page to find out who your local councillors are, and how to contact them: https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-councillors

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 28 September 2025
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.