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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.

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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

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Transport

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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).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

Charles Saer Community Primary School (primary) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: for academy; proposed date 31 December 2026
Charles Saer Community Primary School (primary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 January 2027
Eldon Primary School (primary) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: for academy; proposed date 30 November 2026
Fulwood and Cadley Primary School (primary) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: for academy; proposed date 30 November 2026
Fulwood and Cadley Primary School (primary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 December 2026
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic High School (secondary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 October 2026
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic High School (secondary) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: for academy; proposed date 30 September 2026
Star Eldon Primary (primary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 December 2026

In the last twelve months: 12 opened (8 academy converter, 4 new provision), 9 closed (8 academy converter, 1 closure)

Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Ingol, Preston (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 October 2025
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Prospect House — closed; reason recorded: closure, 1 December 2025
St Charles' RC School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 December 2025
St John's Catholic Primary School, Poulton-le-Fylde (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 28 February 2026
St Maria Goretti Catholic Primary School, Preston (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 December 2025
St Michael and St John's Roman Catholic Primary School, Clitheroe (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 November 2025
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Lytham (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Woodlea Junior School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 November 2025
Holdsworth School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 20 July 2026
Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Ingol, Preston (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 November 2025
Moss View School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 20 November 2025
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Silver Birch School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 17 November 2025
St Charles' Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 January 2026
St John's Catholic Primary School, Poulton-Le-Fylde (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 March 2026
St Maria Goretti Catholic Primary School, Preston (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 January 2026
St Michael and St John's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 December 2025
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Lytham (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
TRUST-Education Group Ltd — open; reason recorded: new provision, 20 July 2026
Woodlea Junior School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 December 2025

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
Service	Budget
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 services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£53.7 million
Other services	none 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).

Lancashire in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 1,294,914 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 42 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £22,208 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £610 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 28.4% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 3.6% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £193,674 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 5.4 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 60.3 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 59.3 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 6.1 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 91.4% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 113.4 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 46,715 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

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

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.

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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.