Labour Council and their rhetoric of the living wage
It must be election time again in Oldham as the Labour Council adopt the living wage as policy on the 1st April 2015 after years of promoting low pay in Oldham as a selling point…
It must be election time again in Oldham as the Labour Council adopt the living wage as policy on the 1st April 2015 after years of promoting low pay in Oldham as a selling point…
Statistics released today show that UK productivity is at a lower level than it was in 2007 prior to the economic recession; this seven-year period has shown the lowest levels of productivity growth since the…
The Oldham Council inflicted Foxdenton employment development is in such demand that it still does not have a single business signed up as tenants despite the offer to build bespoke units. The developer (which is…
It must be election time as Oldham Council has announced it is investing £100,000 to revitalise Failsworth retail. As a direct comparison in 2013 the Oldham Council leader/councillor for Failsworth East Jim McMahon said the…
Figures obtained under a recent freedom of information request show that the number of children taken into care in Oldham in 2014 was 39.7% higher than the figure for 2012, no clarification or indication of…
The heavily fire damaged & vandalised derelict Hartford mill in Werneth is set to be delisted & demolished. As to be expectedl Oldham council had already scheduled a representation to sell the land they own…
National Insurance figures issued by The Department for Work & Pensions (26/02/2015) show a very worrying set of underlying migration statistics that show in 2014 there were 187,000 new National Insurance numbers issued to Romanians…
Interesting to see, in light of Oldham Council’s spending plans for 800 quality homes in Oldham Town Centre, that official govt stats released today (17/02/2015) show that in 2013 house sales ranged from 109 in…
Local press seem to be oddly selective about which stories & official statistics are worthy of publication, hence their selective use of the latest birth figures which were limited to the teen birth rate is…
In yet another pre-election Oldham Council press release we have them once again informing us of their business acumen & forward thinking in a piece entitled “Two more businesses receive Independent Quarter funding” Chronic-Oldham wishes…
Cash strapped Oldham Council & GM Police are funding a £30,000 community grant scheme for the people of Werneth. Werneth already gets 30% of all the money Oldham Council spends on “Priority Programme” grants for…
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities stated in spatial framework documents this week that there are 25,000 inward jobs in the pipeline for Greater Manchester within 350 projects, the majority of which are in the…
Oldham Council’s much bragged about “independent quarter” now has on it’s first small section of Yorkshire St shops a Cash Trader a Cash Convertor a Cash Generator a betting shop, four charity shops (one has…
Tensions have been building again between Oldham’s Muslim community & the significant numbers of new Romanian A2 EU migrant’s after a spate of robberies including three at Mosques. After it emerged that money had been…
Oldham’s famous Coliseum Theatre has had it’s section 48 grant application from the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities approved subject to them implementing new robust governance arrangements including transitioning to a Trustee model. A trustee…