It meets at Blackpool Town Hall and has its offices in the adjoining Municipal Buildings and at Bickerstaffe Square.

It kept the same boundaries, but became a lower tier district authority with the county council providing county-level services to the town again.

[10] Blackpool remains part of the ceremonial county of Lancashire for the purposes of lieutenancy.

Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms took effect has been as follows:[13][14] Lower tier non-metropolitan district Unitary authority The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Blackpool.

[23] The council's offices are split between the Municipal Buildings on Corporation Street, immediately adjoining the rear of the Town Hall, and One Bickerstaffe Square, a modern building near Blackpool North railway station, completed in 2014.