COUNTY councillors opposed to Blackburn's plans to go-it-alone are due to meet tomorrow to discuss moves to alter ward boundaries in the borough.
A Local Government Commission has ruled that the new Blackburn Council should have more councillors and there should be boundary changes to most wards.
Blackburn Council, which is due to become a self-governing unitary authority in April, 1998, should have 62 councillors, two more than at present. At present, many wards in Blackburn and Darwen have significantly more or less voters per councillor than the average for the district of around 1,700.
The changes, the Commission argues, will even this out, making a new average of around 1,640 voters to each councillor.
The idea is to have the ward changes in place ready for elections to a shadow unitary authority in May next year.
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