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Blackpool: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

Read on 24 September 2026. Councils publish at different rates and in different places, so “nothing found” means nothing found, not nothing happening.

Blackpool Borough Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, North West. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000009.

Council plan · Budget · Meeting papers · Councillors · Register of interests · Consultations

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

Blackpool's Core Strategy provides for 4,200 new homes between 2012 and 2027.

“Provision will be made for the delivery of 4,200 new homes in Blackpool between 2012 and 2027”

Blackpool Council, 3 January 2026. Read 24 September 2026. Page 'Deliverable five-year housing land supply statement 2025 to 2030', last modified 3 January 2026, quoting Core Strategy Policy CS2.

Local plans on the national planning register Updated automatically

MHCLG planning data platform (planning.data.gov.uk), as supplied by the council; Open Government Licence. Stages are as recorded there, and some entries are old: each shows when the council last updated it.

Transport

Blackpool's transport policy page says consultation on the Lancashire Combined County Authority Local Transport Plan Implementation Plan ran to 30 June 2026.

“At the time of writing, consultation upon the new LCCA Local Transport Plan Implementation Plan is underway. Comments on the Plan can be received up to 30th June 2026.”

Blackpool Council, 30 April 2026. Read 24 September 2026. Page last modified 30 April 2026. The consultation is the Combined County Authority's, reported on the council's site. Council consultations page states there are no current consultations open.

Council tax

Band D set by Blackpool for 2026–27: £2,126.09 of a £2,513.22 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

Blackpool Council's element of council tax rose by 4.99% for 2026/27, £101.01 at Band D.

“The increase in the Blackpool Council tax element for 2026/27 (£101.01 at Band D) is based on 4.99% of the 2025/26 Blackpool Council tax element (£2,025.08 at Band D).”

Blackpool Council, 17 August 2026. Read 24 September 2026. Page last modified 17 August 2026. Verified via direct fetch. Budget set at Council 24 February 2026 (council news).

Environment

Blackpool Council's goal is to reach net zero by 2030.

“Our goal is for the council to reach net zero by 2030—well ahead of the UK's national target of 2050.”

Blackpool Council, undated. Read 24 September 2026.

Education

No current proposal to change local schools was found on Blackpool Council's website. Where we looked

Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 1 opened (1 academy converter), 1 closed (1 academy converter)

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What Blackpool is deciding

Every item on the agendas of Full Council and the Cabinet, as the council titled it, from about six months back to three months ahead. Left out: section headings, procedural items (apologies, minutes, declarations of interest, announcements, questions, appointments), anything about councillors’ attendance or allowances (which this site does not show), and private items the council itself withholds. Motions are shown with whoever the council’s agenda says proposed them; a councillor’s party is from Open Council Data.

Coming up

Recently

5 earlier meetings

  • Mon, 13 July 2026 · Cabinet

    • CENTRAL HOUSING REGENERATION AREA PHASE 1: PROGRESS UPDATE AND PREPARE FOR COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDERResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • NEW AFFORDABLE COUNCIL HOUSING AT ROYAL GARDENS, BISPHAM, BLACKPOOL (formerly Bispham High School)Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • UK CITY OF CULTURE 2029 - SUBMISSION OF BIDResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • BLACKPOOL TOWN DEAL: UPDATEResult not yet read from the minutes.

  • Wed, 24 June 2026 · Full Council

    • STATEMENT OF LICENSING POLICY 2026Minutes published; result not yet read. Minutes
    • EXECUTIVE REPORTS AND COMBINED FIRE AUTHORITY REPORTMinutes published; result not yet read. Minutes
    • BLACKPOOL COMMUNITY SAFETY PLAN 2026-2029Minutes published; result not yet read. Minutes
    • SCRUTINY ANNUAL REPORT 2025/2026Minutes published; result not yet read. Minutes
    • AUDIT COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT 2025/26Minutes published; result not yet read. Minutes

  • Mon, 15 June 2026 · Cabinet

    • BLACKPOOL EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY 2026-29Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • PROVISIONAL OUTTURN 2025/26Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • TREASURY MANAGEMENT OUTTURN FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • RYSCAR WAY - HOUSING DEVELOPMENTResult not yet read from the minutes.

  • Mon, 18 May 2026 · Cabinet

    • UPDATED TERMS OF REFERENCE OF SHAREHOLDER COMMITTEEResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • EARLY HELP STRATEGY REFRESH 2026 - 2028Result not yet read from the minutes.

  • Wed, 13 May 2026 · Full Council · Annual Council

    • THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR OF THE COUNCILResult: agreed, 13 May 2026. “It was proposed by Councillor Bradley Mitchell, seconded by Councillor Galley and Resolved : That in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, Councillor Danny Scott be elected Mayor of the Borough of Blackpool for the municipal year 2026/2027.” Minutes
    • THE MAYOR'S ACCEPTANCE OF OFFICEMinutes published; result not yet read. Minutes
    • THE APPOINTMENT OF THE DEPUTY MAYOR OF THE COUNCILResult: agreed, 13 May 2026. “It was proposed by the Mayor, Councillor Danny Scott, seconded by Councillor B Mitchell and Resolved : That in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, Councillor Carl Mitchell be appointed Deputy Mayor of the Borough of Blackpool, for the municipal year 2026/2027.” Minutes
    • THE MAYOR TO PAY THANKS IN RESPECT OF THE SERVICE OF THE EX-MAYORMinutes published; result not yet read. Minutes
    • THE MAYOR'S ADDRESSMinutes published; result not yet read. Minutes
    • PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS 2026/2027Minutes published; result not yet read. Minutes
    • CHIEF OFFICER / STATUTORY APPOINTMENTSMinutes published; result not yet read. Minutes

From the council’s own meeting papers (Modern.gov), read 2 November 2026. Refreshed weekly. Once a meeting’s minutes are published, each item shows the result in the minutes’ own words (carried, lost, withdrawn, deferred, noted or agreed), the recorded vote where the minutes give one, and a link to the minutes; where those words are not found, the page says so rather than guessing.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Blackpool reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Blackpool: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
ServiceBudget
Education services£82.6 million
Highways and transport services£10.1 million
Children's social care£79.9 million
Adult social care£88.8 million
Public health£26.0 million
Housing services (general fund only)£5.6 million
Cultural and related services£10.0 million
Environmental and regulatory services£25.1 million
Planning and development services−£17.0 million
Police servicesnone budgeted
Fire and rescue servicesnone budgeted
Central services−£136,000
Other services£2.9 million
Total service expenditure£313.9 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Life in Blackpool: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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Showing: Blackpool.

People living here
143,492 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age
43 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year
£19,921 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax
£540 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty
39.2% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
5.7% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home
£138,065 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs
4.3 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Years in good health: women
51.8 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men
50.9 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person
2.8 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband
93.6% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
111.0 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here
4,395 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Blackpool from the ONS

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

This council’s area is covered by Lancashire combined authority.

42 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 27, Conservative and Unionist 11, Reform UK 4.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 42 councillors, by ward
  • Anita Cooper (Conservative and Unionist) — Anchorsholme
  • Paul Galley (Conservative and Unionist) — Anchorsholme
  • Joel McKevitt (Labour Party) — Bispham
  • Paul Wilshaw (Conservative and Unionist) — Bispham
  • Jim Hobson (Labour Party) — Bloomfield
  • Mel Fenlon (Labour Party) — Bloomfield
  • Laura Marshall (Labour Party) — Brunswick
  • Matthew Thomas (Labour Party) — Brunswick
  • Ivan Taylor (Labour Party) — Claremont
  • Lynn Williams (Labour Party) — Claremont
  • Alistair Humphreys (Labour Party) — Clifton
  • Paula Burdess (Labour Party) — Clifton
  • Dave Flanagan (Labour Party) — Greenlands
  • Jon Morgan (Reform UK) — Greenlands
  • Kim Critchley (Labour Party) — Hawes Side
  • Neal Brookes (Labour Party) — Hawes Side
  • Bradley Mitchell (Conservative and Unionist) — Highfield
  • Peter Hunter (Labour Party) — Highfield
  • Jo Farrell (Labour Party) — Ingthorpe
  • Jon Bamborough (Labour Party) — Ingthorpe
  • John Boughton (Labour Party) — Layton
  • Kath Benson (Labour Party) — Layton
  • Jim O'Neill (Reform UK) — Marton
  • Shaun Brookes (Labour Party) — Marton
  • Emma Ellison (Reform UK) — Norbreck
  • Julie Sloman (Conservative and Unionist) — Norbreck
  • Adrian Hoyle (Labour Party) — Park
  • Gillian Campbell (Labour Party) — Park
  • Carl Mitchell (Conservative and Unionist) — Squires Gate
  • Gerard Walsh (Reform UK) — Squires Gate
  • Graham Baker (Conservative and Unionist) — Stanley
  • Jason Roberts (Conservative and Unionist) — Stanley
  • Jane Hugo (Labour Party) — Talbot
  • Mark Smith (Labour Party) — Talbot
  • Lisette Roe (Labour Party) — Tyldesley
  • Portia Webb (Labour Party) — Tyldesley
  • Fred Jackson (Labour Party) — Victoria
  • Pam Brookes (Labour Party) — Victoria
  • Danny Scott (Conservative and Unionist) — Warbreck
  • Michele Scott (Conservative and Unionist) — Warbreck
  • Diane Mitchell (Conservative and Unionist) — Waterloo
  • Simon Cartmell (Labour Party) — Waterloo

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own site, linked rather than summarised, because summarising means choosing. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

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Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.