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…
Oldham Council privately set out preliminary details of Prince’s Gate in 2014 which included plans for an 18,300 sqft Aldi supermarket development, with circa 50 residential units above on the site of the current RSPCA…
Oldham Council’s repayment schedule for PFI and similar contracts over the next 25 years will incur interest charges totaling 125.6% of the collective loan repayments for the same period. When operators services charges are added…
We find it amazing that Oldham Council is allowed to plaster the pre-election Town Centre with pie in the sky posters of the annual financial benefits of regeneration schemes, none of which have been completed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Despite Oldham Council lauding Oldham as a desirable location to live and work new house price figures reflect Oldham Council’s continued house building policies in socially undesirable areas rather than suggestions of value for money…
The Oldham Taxpayers contribution to the Old Town Hall Cinema project has finally been announced to be £26.3 million after two years of Oldham Council refusing to publish the cost to the people of Oldham….
£60 million budget challenge Oldham Council is allocating £4.1m from the 2014/15 budget’s resources into underwriting fund raising for the new Coliseum/Heritage scheme in 2015/16. All £4.1 million is from prudential borrowing (Government loans).