How will this affect residents within the Darwen Town Council area?
Now that the town council is operating as a separate entity, it will be able to agree its own budget for the forthcoming year (2010/11) and calculate a council tax figure for the town council. This additional amount will appear as a separate item on the council tax bill for residents of the town council area. Residents in other parts of the borough do not make any contribution to Darwen Town Council. As part of the process for producing the 2010/11 council tax bills, properties in the five core wards of Darwen will need to be re-created as new accounts within a separate parish area for the new town council. Each of these properties will, therefore, have two separate references within the council tax system – one which relates to the period up to 31 March 2010, and a new reference for the period commencing 1 April 2010. For most Darwen Town Council residents, the change in account reference will not have an impact. Where, however, adjustments need to be made to a council tax account ret
