Rarely has Chronic-Oldham read such a delusional analysis of Oldham and how Labour Oldham are going to change things than the imaginary outcome they have conjured up for the Northern Roots project at Alexandra Park…
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Another of Jim McMahon’s regeneration projects bites the dust as plans for the new £27m Coliseum theatre in Oldham are scrapped by Oldham council. That makes his list of delivered town centre schemes (1) the…
Oldham Council has stated that a by-election is to be held in the Failsworth East ward after Cherryl Brock, who has served the ward since 2016, gave notice of her intention to stand down this…
In its latest round of capital spending changes Oldham Council has once again moved spending on its “gamechanging” “flagship” and wishful thinking regeneration projects forward in time. £9.5 million of spending for Prince’s Gate has…
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…
It’s now a year since Prince’s Gate version one was due to open with anchor tenant M&S and a year since a delivery partner was due to be announced for version two of the scheme….
Who exactly is running Oldham Council & who really instigated the ousting of Jean Stretton? Here’s the new council leader Sean Fielding out and about today touring the independent quarter with his mentor MP Jim…
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…
Oldham Council have removed the “cost centre” column from their monthly spending publications which they are not obliged to provide under central government regulations. This column has one simple purpose which is just to identify…
On Tuesday Oldham council leader Jean Stretton has been ousted by the council’s Labour group, Failsworth Councillor Sean Fielding will become the new leader on the 23rd of May. Councillor Fielding took to twitter on…
Here’s Oldham Labour Council’s response to our freedom of information request on the numbers of foreign born children in Oldham schools. Apparently the Council the body who oversee school admissions don’t actually collect any data…
In another new report to add to the long list charting the demise of Oldham our borough is named as the second least liveable Northern area by the your housing group. So its well done…
Government statistics released today show that the 014 area of Oldham has the joint 7th lowest household income in England & Wales. This is the area which already has 44% more housing benefit claimants than…
It is nine months since Oldham Council leader Jean Stretton was scheduled to announce a delivery partner for Prince’s Gate version 2 after version 1 which was originally due to open in 2017 failed &…
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…