Councillors in Blackpool have approved the appointment of Stephen Weaver as the unitary authority's new chief execu... Councillors in Blackpool have approved the appointment of Stephen Weaver as the ...

Lancashire's new Combined County Authority (CCA) has been officially ... County Council (LCC), Blackburn with Darwen Council and Blackpool Council and will see some powers currently held by ...

Council leader Councillor Ivan Taylor said they were all working hard to produce a unitary authority the people of Blackpool would be proud of but the true test would be in the new authority's ...

Also speaking to the station, Mr. Webb acknowledged that the situation in the Blackpool Council area was “different”, because it was already a unitary authority without Lancashire County ...

“Our residents shouldn't have to take that debt on…[nor] the social issues that Blackpool has. “Forming one unitary authority would suggest that Blackpool is [superior to] Lancashire County ...

Blackpool must produce its own scheme when it becomes an all-purpose unitary authority in April 1998, and is currently considering how this could be tailor-made to meet the needs of Blackpool schools.

Peter Wilson, deputy leader, said: "With a unitary authority we can deliver local ... In Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen Council and Blackpool Council are established unitary authorities.