Creating a Better Place

Creating a Better Place is an ambitious plan to transform Oldham.

It will unlock investment worth £285 million and create more than 2,000 new homes in Oldham town centre, 1,000 new jobs and 100 apprenticeship opportunities.

2000 new homes

Artists impression of new homes in Oldham town centre

We’ve partnered with Muse to develop 2,000 new homes.

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Jubilee Park

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Plans to create a new public park in the heart of our town centre

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Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Our plans to develop and improve the Spindles shopping centre

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Spindles: Retail area

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Opportunities and plans for the Spindles on-going retail offer

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Spindles: Tommyfield Market

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

A new era for Oldham's historic Tommyfield Market

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Entrepreneur workspace

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Future plans for an enterprise start up zone inside the Spindles

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Spindles: Event space

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The creation of a multi-purpose event space within the Spindles

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Spindles: Archive Centre

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Plans to create a new publicly accessible Archive Collection Centre

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New theatre

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Our exciting new purpose built theatre in Oldham's Cultural Quarter

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Cultural quarter

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Preserving our buildings and heritage to drive Oldham's cultural quarter

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Getting around

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Town centre infrastructure improvements for pedestrians, cyclists and accessibility

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Northern Roots

Map of development opportunities in Oldham

Northern Roots country park will be within easy reach of our town centre

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