| Description | Papers and correspondence regarding the observations of Lancashire County Council on Local Government Boundary Commission proposals.
Includes: general comments, by Lancashire County Council, to the Boundary Commission on county borough proposals for extension of boundaries (c. 1946); correspondence with Lancashire County Council regarding the Boundary Commission proposals; observations of the Lancashire County Council on the extension proposals of the County Borough of St. Helens (1947); information for a meeting of the Boundary Commission, October 1946, including summary of proposals, statement of overspill from county boroughs, financial statistics, population trends in Lancashire; particulars and methods of calculation adopted; financial tables and statistics relating to the proposed boundary changes and Ashton-in-Makerfield, Billinge and Winstanley, Haydock, Prescot, Rainford, Warrington, Whiston, and St. Helens (c. 1946); summary of boundary commission proposals for the Lancashire county area (November 1946); Report of the Parliamentary Committee on the Local Government Boundary Commission Act, 1945. |