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A scheme offering up to 100% reduction in council tax for low-income households has been agreed.

Residents are being reassured that key services will continue to operate as they do now when a new council starts life on 1 April.

A key document outlining how the new council will operate has been approved.

A scheme offering up to 100% reduction in council tax for low-income households has been agreed by the new Westmorland and Furness Council.

Westmorland and Furness Council has agreed its first Council Plan, outlining an ambition to be a caring council, delivering excellent services and with the communities it serves at the heart of all it does.

Work is due to start soon on the much-anticipated Grange Lido and Promenade restoration.

Councillors have called for more support for residents, businesses and services in the face of the cost of living crisis.

Councillors have backed a motion that confirms a new unitary authority recognises we are facing climate and biodiversity crises.

A new council has committed to ‘anchoring’ its position in all the communities it serves when it comes into operation next year.

Cabinet members of the Shadow Authority for Westmorland and Furness Council have confirmed their support for proposals to create a new town council for Barrow.