Councils urged to work together on plans

THE LDRS understands modelling work is about to get under way to demonstrate how the costs of local government would be split across Lancashire depending on how many new authorities are ultimately created as part of the carve-up.

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The districts and standalone councils will be used as building blocks for that process, which also involves county council spending being "disaggregated" - or divided - across the different parts of the patch, where it is currently absorbed to varying degrees as per the cost of delivering services like social care in each individual area.

When Lancashire's leaders set out in March an "interim plan" - requested by the government - for how they see the local authority landscape in the county after reorganisation, they admitted that there was no "consensus" between them.