Place North West | Oldham aims for £41m Government backing
Neil Tague Oldham’s Town Deal Board has submitted plans to secure support from the £3.6bn Towns Fund, with a focus on five capital projects. The list is headed by a £16m plan for new events space for organisations including Oldham Coliseum, for which a £27m new theatre plan had previously been advanced before being ditched in 2018. Of the other projects, two involve the repurposing of space at the Spindles shopping centre, which was acquired by the council in October for an undisclosed sum. The projects put forward are: Making Space For Live Performance: this £16m project will provide ...