First Choice Homes Oldham is demolishing 247 rental properties at two high-rise blocks in Coldhurst namely Crossbank House and Summervale House, Oldham’s largest social housing provider will then build 100 new family homes. Like most…
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While Foxdenton Hall in Foxdenton Park rots austerity challenged Oldham Council are spending another £100,000 on Alexandra Park which has already had millions in lottery grants and consumes the majority of Oldham’s annual park and…
Government statistics released today show that in 2013 fifty one other UK local authority areas had a lower percentage of children living in “working households” where all adults worked than Oldham, by 2017 just three…
Oldham Council admits there is three times more demand for social housing in Oldham than in neighbouring Bury, Rochdale and Tameside. The actual truth is that there are three times more people on the social…
Plans are afoot for a new school being proposed in Oldham by the Cranmer Education trust who already run the Blue Coat school. It transpires that this will be another of those discriminatory new schools…
Oldham Council has been given £602,000 from the government’s oddly named “Controlling Migration Fund” to deal with pressures from high volumes of migrants and in true Labour Oldham style they are spending 60% of the…
No Oldham Council press release and no mention in our biased local press. Labour Oldham Council are setting up an “Emerging Communities Team” with an emerging communities manager, a Romanian Roma outreach worker, a Czech…
Schools census stats from January 2017 show minority ethnic pupils now make up 46.5% of primary school pupils in state-funded Oldham schools & 39.8% of pupils in state-funded Oldham secondary schools. According to Oldham Council’s…
We have all seen the report on the BBC about child poverty in Oldham which concentrated on tugging at the heart strings and chose to completely avoid an assessment of Oldham’s socioeconomic landscape or the…
Suffragette champion MP Jim McMahon along with Council leader Jean Stretton and MP Debbie Abrahams never publicly spoke up for his assistant Arooj Shah after she was ousted as a St Mary’s councillor by Muslim…
20,442 adult foreign nationals have registered national insurance numbers from Oldham addresses in the last 16 years with 28% doing so in the last 3 years of which 35% came from Romania. 2015, 2016 and…
In her leaders blog Council leader Jean Stretton writes “COLDHURST has been in the headlines this week after a national study was published on child poverty. I asked Abdul Jabbar, Oldham Council’s Deputy Leader, to…
Does the headline strike you as direct and un-pc, good it is meant to shock. Doing research over a long period of time can eventually reveal an underlying connection between information that initially seems completely…
The last 12 months have seen some genuine highlights and progress for Oldham. A personal favourite was confirming all the funding is in place for our exciting plans for a new Arts and Heritage Centre…
More evidence of the huge pressures placed on Oldham infrastructure and services by mass unskilled migration was delivered this week in the form of the ONS 2016 “output area” population statistics. Output areas (OAs) are…