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Originally Posted by shillelagh
From what i can remember delving back into the mists of time - they cant amalgamate because Blackburn and Darwen are an Unitary Authority. Hyndburn council is part of Lancashire county council. Now i may be wrong but there was something about the sizing of it.
Reading that about offering the trust to other councils to run - can hyndburn not run their own facilities. I wonder if they offered it Rossendale.....our trust at the minute isnt doing to bad could be better but mainly doing our best with the facilities we have.
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From what I understand, it wasn't 'offered' just to Blackburn and Darwen! It was put out to tender and presumably Blackburn with Darwen applied. I have no idea whether Rossendale put in a proposal or not.