Must admit, I was thinking the same thing. Who exactly is being petitioned here?
There's no government department blocking a return of the sport. There's no council who needs to be pushed to grant additional planning permission.
All that is needed is a promoter to come along and pay the rent money to Spedeworth, and away we go.
OK it may not be easy to find rich promoter willing to put up the rent money and operational costs, but we're certaiinly not going to be able to petition the government to pay the rent for us!