The largest industry group in 2015 is professional, scientific & technical, with 17.8% of all registered UK businesses compared with 17.3% in 2014. Eight of the ten Greater Manchester local authority areas have more professional,…
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…
Oldham continues to miss out on the changing face of the economy as professional, scientific, technical employment increased by 18.3% between 2009-2014 and business administration & support services grew by 18.2% whilst Oldham Council’s chosen…
On the day Oldham’s former registry office at Metropolitan House, Hobson Street was auctioned at Manchester’s Ethiad Stadium with a guide price of £500,000, budget cutting Oldham Council decided to purchase the building. This is…
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…
Policy driven early warning signs could spell disaster for the future use of farm land in Oldham which you won’t see in the Labour leaders rose tinted grow some veg, plant a tree blog. The…
Labour run Greater Manchester wants to introduce it’s own bedroom tax. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority wants to be the first UK region that charges a hotel “bed tax”. This would be a tax paid…
Oldham Council is still plastering social media with the message “No areas can be immune from budget pressures, there are no easy decisions left.” As most people who frequent Chronic-Oldham know this does not include…
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…
In his latest blog the Oldham Labour leader says Greater Manchester needs to build 10,000 homes a year instead of 4,000 but forgets to mention net annual international migrant inflow is 8,654. He also fails…
Oldham Council is tendering for the “construction of sixteen houses for private sale in order to complete one section of the Gateways to Oldham PFI project (Primrose Bank)”. So here we are again with Oldham…
Between January 2014 & March 2015 1991 new National Insurance numbers were issued to foreign nationals resident in Oldham 663 of which were issued to Romanian & Bulgarian migrants. Since May 2013 Oldham Councils “flagship”…
Oldham Council has twenty two Lender Option Borrower Option (LOBOs) long-term loan contracts on its books that until paid will pose a serious threat to the boroughs future finances. During the “noughties” both UK Council…