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A huge new plan to build more than 11,000 homes across Oldham over the next two decades has been drafted.

A heart defibrillator in Lees has been made available to the community following the combined efforts of St Agnes...

Controversial plans for hundreds of homes in the Saddleworth countryside have been approved again - despite concerns...

Thornley Brook – which, despite its name, is a main river flowing through Grotton, Springhead and Lees - has been...

Controversial plans for more than 200 homes in the Saddleworth countryside compared to a ‘saveloy sausage’ have been...

Neil Tague The housebuilder has set out plans for 50 homes south of Denbigh Drive in Crompton, within a borough that it said is delivering only 80% of its housing target. Miller Homes plans to deliver three- and four-bedroom housing on a 7.9-acre agricultural plot, insert a new access point off Denbigh Drive, and add landscaping across the scheme. The site, which sits to the south of the High Crompton housing area, is identified as “Other Open Protected Land” in Oldham’s adopted developme...

“You have no authority here Jackie Weaver, no authority at all.” “Read the standing orders – read them and understand them!” Already these lines uttered by furious councillors at a tiny virtual parish meeting in Cheshire have become as legendary as the words of Winston Churchill or Shakespeare. But it’s not just the planning and environment committee of Handforth Parish Council where voices are raised and the formality of democracy descends into chaos. Greater Manchester - and Oldha...

Campaigners lose legal challenge against controversial approval of 265 homes and new £3m road A judge has ruled that the permission granted by the council’s planning committee last summer for the controversial Knowls Lane application will stand 10:51, 22 DEC 2020 The plans for a new road and 265 homes off Knowls Lane in Oldham (Image: Russell Homes) For the latest news from in and around Oldham sign up to the MyOldham newsletter hereInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again la...

Campaigners lose £40k legal challenge against 265 homes plan Reporter: Charlotte Green, Local Democracy Reporter Date published: 22 December 2020 The plan is to build 265 homes and a £3.5m new link road on protected green land in Oldham. Campaigners have lost a £40k legal challenge against plans to build 265 homes and a £3.5m new link road on protected green land in Oldham. A judge has ruled that the permission granted by the council’s planning committee last summer for the contro...