[andrewb]

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.

Blackburn with Darwen is what they call a Unitary Authority, which has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions in the area, where as county councils(hyndburn) and district councils(LCC) have the functions divided between them in a two tier system.