Labour are looking at abolishing Pendle!

Pendle may soon lose its local democracy as it is merged into a Greater Blackburn unitary council.

The Pendle Borough Council covers Pendle, Nelson, and Colne. There are 12 Wards in the district.

• Barnoldswick
• Barrowford and Pendleside
• Boulsworth and Foulridge
• Bradley
• Brierfield East and Clover Hill
• Brierfield West and Reedley
• Earby and Coates
• Fence and Higham
• Marsden and Southfield
• Waterside and Horsfield
• Whitefield and Walverden
• Vivary Bridge

The Labour Government is intending to push ahead with replacing both the District Councils and Lancashire County Council with three Unitary Authorities and above them a Combined Authority and Mayor. Pendle Borough would become a part of a Greater Blackburn council, ending the local links of local people with the politicians who represent them. Liberal Democrats believe that this will be bad for local democracy and bad for our communities.

We believe that this interference in local Government by politicians based in London is ignoring the needs of our Towns and rurual communities, and that it would be much better to create Regional Government for the North that takes these powers away from Westminster and places them here in our region where our politicians can decide how our politics is run, and keep our local councils doing the work that they do, but properly funded with a guaranteed funding.

With more control and decisions being taken locally, here in our community, we could have the politics we want and give real power to the people.