Oldham Council has purchased the former Oldham magistrates court site opposite the Civic Centre with the intention of building housing. The site sits in the 024 area which along with neighbour 022 has received the…
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…
Oldham council tax is set to rise by an average £80 for band D properties. When talking about the need to increase council tax at the council meeting on the nineteenth of February OMBC stated…
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…
Statistics from the ministry of justice show that Oldham is the only area in Greater Manchester that makes the top ten list of areas for house repossessions in the UK. According to further analysis undertaken…
Oldham has received thousands of unskilled Eastern European migrants in recent years and we are constantly told our manufacturing, agricultural and health industries would collapse without them. Oldham has never had any agricultural industry and…
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…
Oldham Council stated on BBC Radio Manchester today they won’t be making an announcement about the Prince’s Gate scheme until 2018. Due to open in 2017 but building work has still not started this has…
This weeks official statistics show in the third quarter of 2017 Greater Manchester continues to house 70% of all asylum seekers in the entire North West leaving Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire & Merseyside to share the…
Net migration in the year ending June 2017 of over 230,000 was a fall of 100,000 on the previous year when net migration was at its highest recorded level. That means migration still accounts for…
Today’s employment statistical release for October shows that Oldham continues to have the highest percentage of benefit claimants in all Greater Manchester and also by far the highest increase in claimants in the last year….
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…
The annual hours and earnings survey for 2017 was released today and there are no prizes or surprises for guessing how Oldham fared. So it’s well done to Labour Oldham for achieving an unprecedented twelve…
Oldham’s abysmal crime statistics for the year to June 2017 sees public order offences more than double, robbery up 62%, violence up 58% and sexual offences up 29%. Oldham crime has increased every quarter since…
Greater Manchester Police announcement “We are currently seeing an increase in distraction theft from persons in the Oldham area. It is reported that males are targeting elderly members of the public, approaching them and producing…