Town halls ask: how should we spend your cash

Chorley and South Ribble residents are being asked to help the two boroughs' councils set their spending priorities for next year.

- by Paul Faulkner

The neighbouring authorities - which share many back office services, but function as separate entities - usually consult the public on a draft version of their annual budgets early in the new year, before councillors vote on them.

But this time around, the councils want to get locals involved at an earlier stage in the process, to give them a greater say in the final outcome.