A petition calling to re-hire staff to monitor CCTV cameras in Bexley will not be heard by the council because of a technicality. The petition, which was signed by more than 2,200 people, was due to be heard in July in the council chamber.
According to Chris Brown, the petition cannot be debated because of the way data is saved. Petitions heard by the council need to have included postcodes from those backing it.
He said: "I had to resubmit a new petition through the council's own website, again had to wait for this to be approved.
"Unfortunately, it is not the easiest of petitions to sign due to the requirement to register an account first. Change.org made it very easy as it could be linked to your Facebook account data, however, it seems people are being put off by the requirement to register.
"It does feel like things have been made difficult for unnecessary reasons. I have therefore recreated the petition and it only takes ten seconds to sign.
"Through the Change.org petition we received a total of 2,220 signatures and 20 pages of comments from those who signed. That's a lot of comments."