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Lancashire: 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.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Lancashire County Council: County (upper tier), England, North West. GOV.UK lists it as a county council. ONS code E10000017.

Council website · Publication scheme

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

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Transport

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Council tax

Band D set by Lancashire for 2026–27: £1,801.75. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Environment

The council’s climate-emergency motion, in its own words:

“Lancashire County Council therefore: (i) Declares a ‘Climate Emergency’, and commits to making the operations and activities of Lancashire County Council Carbon Neutral by 2030.”

The council's document gives no date for the motion: it shows what the council resolved then, not what it does now. Council - Agenda item - To consider the Notices of Motion submitted under Standing Order B36 (Lancashire County Council), found through mySociety and Climate Emergency UK, Local authority climate emergency declarations (CC BY 4.0); the sentence was checked word for word on 26 October 2026.

Beyond that document, we haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Education

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Changes to schools recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

In the last twelve months: 14 opened (8 academy converter, 5 new provision, 1 reason not recorded), 10 closed (8 academy converter, 1 for academy, 1 closure)

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 the council plans to spend, 2026–27

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

Lancashire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
ServiceBudget
Education services£1,409.0 million
Highways and transport services£57.6 million
Children's social care£325.2 million
Adult social care£683.1 million
Public health£102.0 million
Housing services (general fund only)none budgeted
Cultural and related services£22.5 million
Environmental and regulatory services£93.0 million
Planning and development services£13.3 million
Police servicesnone budgeted
Fire and rescue servicesnone budgeted
Central services£53.7 million
Other servicesnone budgeted
Total service expenditure£2,759.4 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 Lancashire: 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: Lancashire.

People living here
1,308,567 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
42 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
£22,208 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
£610 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
28.4% 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
3.6% 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
£194,068 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs
5.4 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
60.3 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
59.3 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
6.1 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
91.4% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
113.4 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
46,715 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Lancashire 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.

84 seats in 2026. Run by: Reform UK, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Reform UK 53, Conservative and Unionist 8, Independent / Other 5, Labour Party 5, Liberal Democrats 5, Green Party (E&W) 3, Your Party 3, Our West Lancashire 2.

Next scheduled council election: 3 May 2029.

All 84 councillors, by ward
  • Joel Tetlow (Reform UK) — Accrington North
  • Ashley Joynes (Reform UK) — Accrington South
  • Sohail Asghar (Independent / Other) — Accrington West & Oswaldtwistle Central
  • Mohammed Iqbal (Independent / Other) — Brierfield & Nelson West
  • Maheen Kamran (Independent / Other) — Burnley Central East
  • Liam Thomson (Reform UK) — Burnley Central West
  • Usman Arif (Independent / Other) — Burnley North East
  • Mark Poulton (Reform UK) — Burnley Rural
  • Eddie Kutavicius (Reform UK) — Burnley South West
  • Rick Edwards (Reform UK) — Burscough & Rufford
  • Chris Snow (Labour Party) — Chorley Central
  • Martin Topp (Reform UK) — Chorley North
  • Kim Snape (Labour Party) — Chorley Rural East
  • Mark Wade (Reform UK) — Chorley Rural West
  • Lee Hutchinson (Reform UK) — Chorley South
  • Mark Clifford (Labour Party) — Clayton with Whittle
  • James Crawford (Reform UK) — Cleveleys East
  • Jan Schofield (Reform UK) — Cleveleys South & Carleton
  • Warren Goldsworthy (Reform UK) — Clitheroe
  • Aidy Riggott (Conservative and Unionist) — Euxton, Buckshaw & Astley
  • David Shaw (Reform UK) — Fleetwood East
  • Alice Jones (Reform UK) — Fleetwood West & Cleveleys West
  • Joshua Roberts (Reform UK) — Fylde East
  • David Dwyer (Reform UK) — Fylde South
  • John Singleton (Conservative and Unionist) — Fylde West
  • Jordan Fox (Reform UK) — Great Harwood, Rishton & Clayton-le-Moors
  • Lance Parkinson (Reform UK) — Great Harwood, Rishton & Clayton-le-Moors
  • Graeme Austin (Reform UK) — Heysham
  • John Clemson (Reform UK) — Hoghton with Wheelton
  • Gina Dowding (Green Party (E&W)) — Lancaster Central
  • Paul Stubbins (Green Party (E&W)) — Lancaster East
  • Shaun Crimmins (Reform UK) — Lancaster Rural East
  • Graham Dalton (Reform UK) — Lancaster Rural North
  • Hamish Mills (Green Party (E&W)) — Lancaster South East
  • Hannah Whalley (Reform UK) — Leyland Central
  • Ellie Close (Reform UK) — Leyland South
  • Ian Duxbury (Reform UK) — Longridge with Bowland
  • Simon Gummer (Reform UK) — Lostock Hall & Bamber Bridge
  • Tim Ashton (Conservative and Unionist) — Lytham
  • Clive Balchin (Reform UK) — Mid-Rossendale
  • Gary Kniveton (Reform UK) — Morecambe Central
  • Russell Walsh (Reform UK) — Morecambe North
  • Brian Moore (Reform UK) — Morecambe South
  • Andy Blake (Reform UK) — Moss Side & Farington
  • Azhar Ali (Independent / Other) — Nelson East
  • Gordon Johnson (Our West Lancashire) — Ormskirk
  • Gaynor Hargreaves (Reform UK) — Oswaldtwistle
  • Tom Pickup (Reform UK) — Padiham & Burnley West
  • Marion Atkinson (Reform UK) — Pendle Central
  • Howard Hartley (Conservative and Unionist) — Pendle Hill
  • David Whipp (Liberal Democrats) — Pendle Rural
  • Nathan McCollum (Reform UK) — Pendle Rural
  • Lorenzo More (Reform UK) — Penwortham East & Walton-le-Dale
  • David Howarth (Liberal Democrats) — Penwortham West
  • Alf Clempson (Conservative and Unionist) — Poulton-le-Fylde
  • Michael Lavalette (Your Party) — Preston Central East
  • Matthew Brown (Labour Party) — Preston Central West
  • Yousuf Motala (Your Party) — Preston City
  • Luke Parker (Reform UK) — Preston East
  • Fiona Duke (Liberal Democrats) — Preston North
  • Maria Jones (Reform UK) — Preston Rural
  • Almas Razakazi (Your Party) — Preston South East
  • Mark Jewell (Liberal Democrats) — Preston South West
  • John Potter (Liberal Democrats) — Preston West
  • Ged Mirfin (Reform UK) — Ribble Valley North East
  • Stephen Atkinson (Reform UK) — Ribble Valley South West
  • Mackenzie Ritson (Reform UK) — Rossendale East
  • Joanne Ash (Reform UK) — Rossendale South
  • Samara Barnes (Labour Party) — Rossendale West
  • Simon Evans (Reform UK) — Skelmersdale Central
  • Nigel Swales (Reform UK) — Skelmersdale East
  • Ella Worthington (Reform UK) — Skelmersdale West
  • Martyn Sutton (Reform UK) — Skerton
  • Fred Cottam (Reform UK) — South Ribble East
  • Tom Lord (Reform UK) — South Ribble West
  • Peter Buckley (Conservative and Unionist) — St. Annes North
  • Steve Rigby (Conservative and Unionist) — St. Annes South
  • Nigel Alderson (Reform UK) — Thornton & Hambleton
  • Adrian Owens (Our West Lancashire) — West Lancashire East
  • Thomas De Freitas (Conservative and Unionist) — West Lancashire North
  • Leon Graham (Reform UK) — West Lancashire West
  • Daniel Matchett (Reform UK) — Whitworth & Bacup
  • Matthew Salter (Reform UK) — Wyre Rural Central
  • James Tomlinson (Reform UK) — Wyre Rural East

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. 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.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

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