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…
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…
Oldham gets a roasting from OFSTED for its endemic failure to provide statutory (SEN) Special Educational Needs. Just a few of the reports findings include “There is non-compliance and flagrant disregard for legislative requirements.” “lack…
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…
Since 2012 30.3% of all Oldham job seekers allowance sanctions have occurred in just four of Oldham’s 34 MSOA areas all of which have borders in Oldham town centre, these four areas also have the …
Prince’s Gate scheme failure, the Town Hall Cinema four times over budget, Hotel Future became Hotel Failure and Foxdenton job predictions cut by 55% all show that Oldham Council’s financial and employment predictions for the…
Yet more school places needed in central Oldham as the ludicrous levels of unskilled immigration and uncontrolled birthrate within high fertility communities create huge pressures on Oldham’s infrastructure. Alexandra Park Junior School in Glodwick proposes…
Not saying Labour Oldham Council are predictable when it comes to suppressing information they don’t want in the public domain but we knew when we found the link governor network document freely available on their…