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Originally Posted by park381
Following on from a-b's observations, lets assume that we had "got rid" of LCC and were now part of a Unitary authority, say Blackburn with Darwen who now look after and administer all services including education, social services, library services etc. Would you be prepared to pay more through your council tax for that privilege. If we look at the current council tax charges of BwD and HBC we would find that in BwD they pay more in each council tax band, since band D is the base line and all other bands are calculated from D we would see that in band D BwD pay £73.05 more per year, the bottom end of the scale band A would be £48.69 more, the top end of the scale band H would be £146.10 more.
I am not saying I am in favour of the existing 2 tier system, just presenting some facts to the thread.
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Its hard to comment without being more knowledgeable but I can't see BwD having as poor and limited services as Hyndburn residents receive overall.
On a seperate note. Both LCC and HBC have overlapped services Parky. Payroll, Highways, Engineering, Planning, Corporate Services, Democratic Services, IT, Environmental Services, maybe not Libraries but you forgot Museums to name a few. And where their isn't direct overlap there has to be consultation and negotiation and legal and financial exchanges. Added to this is a Labour LCC and Conservative HBC which means there can be a lack of direction. Where there is no clear resposibility for either; public transport and strategic housing we have ELEVATE and ELP. All with their own management, increased overheads and some duplicity particularly in back office bureacracy.