Today’s government release of tax credit figures for 2017 – 2018 shows that only Hackney and Tower Hamlets pay out an higher average amount of tax credit benefits than Oldham and 3 Greater Manchester areas…
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Labour Oldham leader Sean Fielding telling everyone on Twitter (he hasn’t blocked) what a wonderful councillor he is when what it really shows is his nimby attitude to his own ward something he and his…
More evidence of the impact of recent high fertility immigration on both the benefit system and early years provision. Government tax credit figures show that in the 2 years between August 2014 and August 2016…
Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding was once again ignoring the facts at tonight’s council meeting discussing the impact of town centre regeneration. He told members that the Old Town Hall development has generated over 100…
Interesting facts from the 2009 to 2017 ONS figures for employment and population growth released today that you will not be reading in the sanitised local press. Chadderton has seen Population growth of 4.9% and…
Tucked away in the back of the recently published Oldham Council housing needs document they finally admit that immigration is now the main cause of population growth in Oldham. This is just part of the…
Cash strapped austerity challenged Oldham Labour Council is advertising a six month vacancy for an enterprise architect salary £13,000 a month. Cash strapped austerity challenged Oldham Labour Council is advertising a seven month vacancy for…
Here’s our graph with the updated ONS mid 2018 population estimates released yesterday. There has been no population density increase in Scotland population up by just 13,300, no population density increase in Wales population up…
Manchester has become the first city in England to develop more than a third of its Green Belt 34.3% the average green belt development rate in England is 7.9%. All decisions on land use for…
Despite writing an article about the scourge of fake news Labour Oldham MP Debbie Abraham’s has a history of spreading fake news including blaming the benefit cap for a man beating his pregnant wife. The…
Rarely has Chronic-Oldham read such a delusional analysis of Oldham and how Labour Oldham are going to change things than the imaginary outcome they have conjured up for the Northern Roots project at Alexandra Park…
Non-residential burglary in Oldham grows by 49% in the year to December 2018, residential burglary by 33%, possession of weapons by 31% and stalking by 29%. Labour Oldham’s place based integration teams are clearly failing…
Nothing quite shows how Oldham Labour council has been struggling with budget cuts and austerity better than their list of consultants paid between £400 and £800 a day. Minimum wage in the UK pays just…
Local election time facts: For 2019/2020 Labour Oldham have introduced the joint 2nd highest adult social care charge in the country to what is already one of the UK’s highest council tax bills. Oldhamers pay…
Not often we get to quote the Lib Dems website but they have published the answer to an FOI they submitted which shows the regeneration of Royton town centre has already had it’s budget increased…