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Originally Posted by garinda
What I am sure of is that this, and the proposed renaming, are two totally separate issues.
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They definitely are totaly seperate issues.
I have been thinking this morning how they will arrive at the area covered by each Town Council (assuming it gets the go ahead and the pilot for Great Harwood works). Rishton, Great Harwood and Oswaldtwiste all have ward boundaries that all lie within the township. But Clayton-le-Moors, Altham and Church are not so easily defined as there current ward boundaries do not correspond the actual townships.
Altham ward emcompasses -Altham parish (basically the village and Altham West) + Church from the Clayton end of Dill Hall Lane (near Enfield Cricket field) up to the cemetery + the old Enfield ward of Clayton UDC + the whole of Clayton to the east of Whalley Road in a northerly direction(right down as far as the Hyndburn Bridge).
Church ward emcompasses the whole of Church (excluding the area now in the Altham ward) + a large part of West Accrington.
Clayton ward emcompasses Blackburn Road and the whole of Clayton to the west of Whalley Road from the Burnley Road/Blackburn road traffic lights as far north as Hyndburn Bridge.
As there is already in exsistance (and has been historically for many years) a Parish Council for Altham, I presume this would be excluded from any Clayton-le-Moors Town Council, and this would be only for the area of the old UDC.
I would also expect a Church Town council to follow the boundaries of the old Church UDC as well.
Maybe PB has not thought so far ahead.
We definitely need to know exactly how much another tier of local government will cost the Council Tax Payer.
I would also like to know what the cost so far has been for the proposed change of name for the borough - how many hours have been spent by officers, discussing the matter and producing the crests etc. Surely this time could have been better used in actaully promoting the borough, rather than putting forward agruments about why the name needs to be changed.