In 2006 there were 21,000 Oldham children and 69,000 Oldham adults living in households where all adults worked, by 2014 that number had dropped to 19,000 children and 55,000 adults. In 2006 Oldham ranked 62nd…
Oldham Council are getting ready once again to cut budgets but are allocating more council funds to squander on development costs for the new Coliseum & heritage centre planned for Union Street after their Arts…
Hypocrite Labour Oldham leader Jim McMahon stated at the Labour Party Conference this week that “Devolution is a Labour value It’s about distributing power from the powerful to the people” yet Mr McMahon was openly…
Oldham continues to top the universal credit claimant figures in the month to August 13th with the highest number of new claimants, the Department for Work & Pensions states “The Jobcentre Plus office with the…
Oldham Council says budgets are under pressure and services & jobs must be cut but they have just allocated another £100,000+ spending (estate agent listing price asked for offers over £100,000) for the purchase of…
After a submission from Regenda Homes Oldham Council has decided that for twelve months 80% of social housing lets in Limehurst will be for people who meet the WorkingXtra criteria which is: one person must…
On the 24th of August Oldham Council announced they were “installing around 1 megawatt (MW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) equipment on a first tranche of Council-owned assets, as a first stage of the Generation Oldham…
On the day we found out that net migration to the UK has reached a record unsustainable high of 330,000 in a year we also saw that since the first year (2014) that working and benefit…
The Economist/ Ipsos MORI August 2015 Issues index – concern about immigration is at the highest level ever recorded – half of the public now list it as a concern. Bobby Duffy, Managing Director of…
Oldham’s former Butterfly’s nightclub on King St is set to make way for a 126 apartment residential & retail development if a property developer can be found after the site was aquired by Millerbrook Properties Limited…
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) Integrated Assessment report for Greater Manchester Spatial Framework released in July used ONS population projections from 2012/13 already proven to be inaccurate at the time this report was…
Cash strapped Oldham Council cannot afford to enter it’s parks, other than Alexandra and Dunwood, for Green Flag awards but can continue to spend tens of thousands on Town Centre Britain In Bloom displays costing…
As with the previous worrying set of crime figures the latest statistics have once again not been reported by Oldham Council or the local press. In the year to March 2015 total crime in Oldham…
The number of people in each Oldham ward who’s voter registration has not been matched with DWP records for Individual Electoral Registration’s and has been marked as red which means they will be deleted as…
ONS population estimates for mid 2014 show that there was a 68.6% higher inflow of international migrants to Oldham than the outflow of migrants from Oldham returning to their countries of origin, that’s a 5%…