Thank you again to everyone who has signed and shared this petition so far. Your support has made a huge difference — but we are now at the critical final step.
To make sure the MMO formally recognises our community’s objections, every signer needs to send their own individual objection email.
This is the part that legally counts, and we only have a few days left.
📧 Send your objection to:
harbourorders@marinemanagement.org.uk
Reference: HRO/2023/00006
Deadline: 23 November (must be received by then)
Your email only needs to:
• State you object to the Port of Exeter HRO
• Explain briefly why (public right of navigation, community access, fees, safety concerns, etc.)
• Include your name and address (email address is fine)
Even a short paragraph makes a huge impact.
The more individual objections submitted, the harder it becomes for this HRO to proceed without a Public Inquiry.
Please take 2 minutes to send your email today — and encourage others to do the same.
This is our last chance to protect the Exe and ensure our community is properly heard.
We’ve now passed 1,000 signatures, which is an incredible show of community support — thank you. If we reach 2,000 signatures, Exeter City Council is required under its own Petitions Scheme to hold a formal Full Council debate on the issue.
This means the HRO, the lack of transparency, and the threat to our public right of navigation must be discussed publicly by all councillors rather than quietly pushed through behind closed doors. Hitting 2,000 signatures forces the Council to confront our concerns in the open.
You can read the Council’s petition rules here:
Please help us get there by sharing this petition as widely as possible — with friends, family, neighbours, local clubs, WhatsApp groups, community pages and anyone who cares about keeping the Exe accessible to all. Every share brings us closer to forcing the Council to confront this in the open.
Let’s get to 2,000 together. The more voices we have, the harder we are to ignore.
Thank you for standing together.