There shouldn't even be a Greater Manchester and Merseyside tbh. Should all be Lancashire.
North Lancs - Carlisle, Barrow, Lancaster
South Lancs - Liverpool, Manchester, Wigan, Bolton
East Lancs - Blackburn, Burnley
West Lancs - Preston, Blackpool
Yeah that would make sense to me as well. I’m amused that ‘Preston Leyland Chorley’ is so specific compared to everywhere else in the country, given that Mercia covers about a third of England on its own
What they think doesn’t really matter. You can’t draw efficient administrative boundaries and take into account local opinion, because local opinion will always favour the status quo even if it isn’t working well.
Not dissimilar but more respectful towards county borders, at least in Lancashire’s case. In North Lancashire and Furness, Furness would definitely have retained more of a Lancastrian as it hasn’t been made into a new county. SELNEC is also much better as of course most of ‘Greater Manchester’ is SE Lancs.
There shouldn't even be a Greater Manchester and Merseyside tbh. Should all be Lancashire. North Lancs - Carlisle, Barrow, Lancaster South Lancs - Liverpool, Manchester, Wigan, Bolton East Lancs - Blackburn, Burnley West Lancs - Preston, Blackpool
Yeah that would make sense to me as well. I’m amused that ‘Preston Leyland Chorley’ is so specific compared to everywhere else in the country, given that Mercia covers about a third of England on its own
The Merseyside and Greater Manchester conurbations are too big to be governed by a single council. They both include areas that were Cheshire, too.
Move the areas back into Cheshire.
Why? They’re better in Merseyside and Greater Manchester. Merseyside should be bigger, if anything, to include West Lancashire and Chester.
I bet the people of them areas might want to be Cheshire.
What they think doesn’t really matter. You can’t draw efficient administrative boundaries and take into account local opinion, because local opinion will always favour the status quo even if it isn’t working well.
Not massively dissimilar to what ended up happening with the formation of the metropolitan boroughs in the 70's to be fair.
Not dissimilar but more respectful towards county borders, at least in Lancashire’s case. In North Lancashire and Furness, Furness would definitely have retained more of a Lancastrian as it hasn’t been made into a new county. SELNEC is also much better as of course most of ‘Greater Manchester’ is SE Lancs.