Only a Labour Government can fix Oldham’s Housing Crisis

17 Oct 2023

The housing market is broken, Oldham now has over nine-thousand families waiting for a socially rented home and almost five-hundred families living in temporary accommodation. It’s not just the social housing sector where people are struggling, private renters are also feeling the squeeze. Recent Labour Party analysis shows that rents…

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Statement on Gaza conflict (13th Oct 2023)

13 Oct 2023

Statement from Cllr Arooj Shah, Leader of Oldham Labour Group Oldham Labour stands in solidarity with the innocent civilians of both Palestine and Israel. The indiscriminate attacks on civilians, including the deaths of hundreds of innocent women and children, are unacceptable. The Labour Party will continue to be strong advocates…

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Oldham Labour welcomes expanded NHS Community Diagnostics Village in Royton

24 Sep 2023

Oldham Council’s Planning Committee on 20th September 2023 approved plans for an expanded Community Diagnostics Village on Salmon Fields including two, two-storey medical diagnostics buildings, a single storey PET CT Scanner, a mobile CT Scanner and making permanent the previously approved Community Diagnostics Hub Building with associated landscaping and parking.…

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Oldham Tories vote against Labour’s call for action to build a new Health Centre for Saddleworth

24 Sep 2023

Oldham Council voted to continue to support work to build a new Health Centre for Saddleworth at the full Council meeting on the 6th July 2023. Oldham’s Tories voted against their own motion despite Tory Group Leader Graham Sheldon, admitting during the debate that Labour’s amendment did not substantially change…

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Oldham Labour calls for assurances on school safety and funding to put things right

05 Sep 2023

Councillor Mohon Ali, Cabinet Member for Education and Skills has written to the Secretary of State for Education asking for her to come clean and immediately publish the full national list of schools involved in the ‘crumbling concrete’ or RAAC scandal so every parent can be sure whether their child…

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Tories ignore plans for Oldham’s cemeteries.

03 Sep 2023

Oldham Council’s  Place, Economic Growth and Environment Scrutiny Board met on the 31st August to scrutinise Oldham’s plans [i]for the Crematorium and Cemeteries. The Board received a report from Councillor Chris Goodwin, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods and also heard from Councillor Arooj Shah, Leader of the Council. The Board’s role…

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22 Aug 2023

Top Public School to open new Sixth Form College in Oldham

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Oldham cancer patients endure long waits

16 Aug 2023

Cancer patients at the Northern Care Alliance, which includes the Royal Oldham Hospital, waiting up to 210 days for diagnosis or treatment, as Tories scrap cancer standards Data sourced by the Labour Party through Freedom of Information request has revealed patients at the Northern Care Alliance are facing long waits…

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10 Aug 2023

Bus services in the North West down 52% in a decade – New figures Labour’s  Councillor Arooj Shah has today revealed shocking new statistics that show local bus routes in the North West have declined by 52% per cent since 2010, with more than 8,000 services slashed nationwide. The North West region has been hit hard,…

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Oldham Labour demands immediate action from Government to stem homeless crisis

The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) covering January to March 2023 lay bare the extent of the homelessness crisis in Oldham and across Britain. In that period, 648 households who asked for help with housing at Oldham Council were assessed and almost all of them –…

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Oldham is way ahead

25 Jul 2023

Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up has this week outlined proposals to speed up planning and focus housing developments on urban areas. The plans include extending permitted development rights for retail buildings, betting shops and agricultural buildings to be converted into housing; consulting on making it easier…

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It’s worse than a mortgage timebomb

23 Jun 2023

Consumer champion Martin Lewis says the ‘mortgage timebomb’ he warned about has now exploded. His comment comes as monthly figures for May 2023 show inflation is stuck at 8.7% and core inflation rose to 7.1%, and food price inflation is now 18.4%. Economists had expected core inflation to fall and…

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Labour’s Green Energy plan is good news for Oldham

21 Jun 2023

Lower gas and electricity bills, good jobs and secure energy supply will all be delivered by Labour’s plan to take back control of our energy. Oldham, and the UK, will have cheaper clean power by 2030, supported by GB Energy, a publicly owned energy company focused on investing in the…

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Oldham Labour calls for immediate Government action ‘to tackle shocking levels of child poverty in Oldham’.

11 Jun 2023

27,760 children lived in poverty in Oldham in 2022, according to a recent report by the End Child Poverty Campaign[i]. This is 43.6% of Oldham’s children and Oldham has the 6th highest child poverty level of all UK local authorities. The position is worst in the Oldham West and Royton constituency which has the fourth highest level of the UK’s Parliamentary constituencies. The…

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Over 43,000 Oldhamers eating less or skipping meals as food inflation hits 19.1%

11 Jun 2023

New analysis from Oldham Labour estimates that 43,572 people in Oldham Borough are skipping meals or eating less thanks to the deepening cost of living crisis. The analysis, based on Resolution Foundation research, follows the figures from the ONS released in May showing food inflation at a staggering 19.1% – its fastest pace in…

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Help get Saddleworth’s streams cleaned up: sign the petition to get United Utilities to act

10 Jun 2023

United Utilities should be keeping Saddleworth’s streams and rivers clean. Instead they have discharged raw sewage into the River Tame around Delph and Greenfield,  and sampling has also found chemical cocktails at some sites. Saddleworth Labour has launched a petition to put pressure on United Utilities to act and to…

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Save our streams says Saddleworth Labour

03 Jun 2023

Saddleworth Labour party is campaigning to clean up Saddleworth’s waterways. Data from the Rivers Trust shows that in 2022 raw sewage was discharged from 17 locations in 537 separate spills for a total of 4,703 hours across Oldham East and Saddleworth. In Saddleworth, discharges were reported along the River Tame…

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‘Action needed now to support childminders and nurseries’ says Oldham Labour

30 May 2023

The Department for Education has published research[i] which shows that childcare providers are struggling to cope with the cost of living crisis and one in ten think they may have to close in the next year. In the Northwest, half of nurseries and just under half of childminders said their income…

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Oldham Conservatives slammed for lack of ambition

The Labour Party has slammed the Oldham Conservative Party for being out of touch and lacking ambition for Oldham and Oldhamers. As the local elections draw closer the Oldham Tories are coming into criticism for being opaque about their plans for the Borough. Literature seen by the Oldham Labour Party…

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Don’t Trash Oldham pushes Oldham to big recycling improvement

23 Apr 2023

Government figures published by DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) show that Oldham has shot up the table for recycling and is in the top four across England for the biggest year on year improvement. Oldham improved recycling by 9.8% in 2021/22 compared to the previous year.  Oldham…

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Oldham Labour Candidates and Pledges for 2023 Local Elections

23 Apr 2023

Oldham Labour is contesting every seat and fielding 57 candidates across the borough. You can find out more about our candidates here: https://www.oldhamlabour.org.uk/2023/04/05/2023-local-elections-your-labour-candidates/   Oldham Labour will deliver: for residents – putting residents first with a £3m cost-of-living package, improving customer service and investing in the schemes and frontline services residents want us…

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