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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.

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

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. Read via WebFetch.

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

Who runs the council

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.

Elections here now: Claremont ward (1 October 2026).

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.

Council motions, labelled by the group that proposed them and with the result, are not yet collected for this council; the meeting papers hold them.

Cite this page

Harvard style. Every figure on the page also names its original source, which is usually the better thing to cite.

Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.