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Originally Posted by Madhatter
your always going to be under LCC control, they are the county council.
Your borough council is Hyndburn. It's not good to have blackburn council looking after an area away from it. They know nothing about the area for one, and it's more built up. If your going to merge you should merge with rossendale.
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Blackburn with Darwen is not under the control of LCC and my reading of what was said in the papers is that the political leaders of Hyndburn want to take power away from LCC and with the support of Blackburn make the decisions themselves on issues such as education and social services.
AIUI the proposal is for the merger of the support functions with the political decision making remaining separate. If that is true, and it is a big if, then Hynburn will be looked after by Hyndburn politicians.
As regards the possible merger with Rossendale. From my very limited knowledge I do not believe that Rossendale would want this. The local geography affects the way that people think. The building of the M65 has changed the way that people now think about this area.
For better or worse, since the burilding of the improved road network, there is evidence to suggest that the people of Hyndburn are increasing using Blackburn for work, shopping and leisure activities. If this is true then is it not surprising that this proposal is being considered.