Rejected petition: Make appropriate climate control a requirement for public facilities.
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There should be a legal limit to the minimum and maximum temperatures that public facilities such as bathrooms and buses are able to reach. Appropriate climate control should be legislation to prevent strain on individual safety, healthcare companies and economic growth.
Buildings and transport in the UK are inappropriately equipped to deal with changing weather across the seasons.
The government should work with UK bus companies to arrange a removal of diesel buses from the country and replace them with the newer electric buses across all networks.
Additionally, implementation of appropriate air conditioning units (and potentially heaters) as required in public facilities should be supported by the government.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may be interested in this petition, which calls for similar action: "Mandate working a/c and heating systems on all new public transport vehicles" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/771285
Petitions also need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We weren't quite sure what you meant by "public facilities" but you may be interested in the following petitions.
Require local authorities to have a cooling strategy
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/770934Legislate a statutory maximum temperature for classrooms and fund school cooling
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/774023Introduce national heatwave resilience strategy & legal protections
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/770813Create a legally enforceable maximum working temperature
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/770354We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.