Preston City council,Town Hall

The imposing Preston City Council,Town Hall is located on Lancaster Road. From the images above, it is not difficult to find the distinguish logo of Preston's patron saint, Lamb of St Wilfred with word " Town Hall" on the blue plate.

Preston City Council, a portion of the two-tier local government system, is now working as a district council together with Lancashire County Council.

In order to serve the overall public , Preston City Council spends on average over £100,000,000 on public service within each year.

The basic function of Preston City Council is to provide local residents service and information such as collecting and recycling garbage from preston households, likewise, keeping street litters free, examing every food premise, offering two entertainment centres for nearly 1,000,000 people, possessing the public parks and open spaces, holding shows, events and attractions and dealing with large number of tourist enquiries etc.

Reference
Preston city council(2008).'About the council '. Available at: http://www.preston.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/about-the-council/. Accessed 18 October 2009

• This post was written by Zhong Min. You can contact me at MZhong1@uclan.ac.uk