£1.2 Million Investment in the Medlock Valley
Oldham Council and our partners are pleased to announce a £1.2 million Species Survival Fund grant for a project working in the Medlock Valley.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: Help us make the borough cleaner and greener otherwise you’ll continue to foot the bill
The borough’s council taxpayers are having to shell out more than £4.2m a year to clean up dumped sofas, discarded bags of household rubbish and litter.
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Man prosecuted after large haul of illegal cigarettes found in cellar
Oldham Council has successfully prosecuted a Glodwick man after 19,400 illegal cigarettes were found in his home.
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Dame Sarah Storey backs school safety scheme
Dame Sarah Storey OBE - Active Travel Commissioner for Greater Manchester – has backed Oldham’s first School Street.
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Don't Trash Oldham: free pest control service goes live
Oldham Council is now offering a free pest control service to residents who own their own homes, and those living in private rented accommodation.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: Taking action and cleaning up our streets
The new Leader of Oldham Council has been out to see how our teams are tackling fly-tipping and taking action against environmental criminals.
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Making Oldham the greenest borough
Oldham Council is looking to create a cleaner and greener borough – literally!
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Don't Trash Oldham: Work with us to make lasting improvements
Oldham is going to get cleaner and greener over the coming months and years.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: check you are using a licensed waste carrier, or you could end up in court
Oldham Council is urging people to make sure their household rubbish is being taken away by a licensed waste carrier.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: dropped cigarette could have had long lasting consequences
Oldham Council has successfully prosecuted a man who dropped a cigarette butt on the ground when he was out on Saddleworth Moor.
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Dumped waste ends in court dates
Oldham Council has recently prosecuted a number of people after they failed to dispose of their household waste properly.
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£20 million Levelling Up grant from Government boosts green projects
£20m secured through the Levelling Up fund will boost eco-friendly projects; including a learning centre at Northern Roots; a new Green Shoots business centre, and an Oldham Greenway linking the areas
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Dame Sarah Storey backs council plans to make streets around schools safer
Oldham Council is looking to introduce measures to make the roads around eight of our primary schools safer and healthier as part of the School Streets initiative.
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Avian flu cases confirmed at Alexandra Park
Government officials have confirmed Avian flu has been found at Alexandra Park after a number of birds were found dead in the boating lake.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: Day of Action on March 17
Oldham Council is backing the Great British Spring Clean. Are you?
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More than £2m secured to fund green improvements at Spindles
A grant of more than £2m has been secured by Oldham Council to ensure the Spindles shopping centre is more environmentally friendly - alongside the improvements already underway.
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Butcher prosecuted after he failed to clean up premises
A butcher has been successfully prosecuted by Oldham Council after his premises were found to be dirty.
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Shisha bars, and their owners, fined more than £5,000 for breaking smoke free law
Three shisha bars and their owners have been successfully prosecuted by Oldham Council for allowing people to smoke on the premises.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: Two more residents successfully prosecuted as crackdown on environmental crimes continues
Recently the council started sprucing up the borough as part of Don’t Trash Oldham.
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Don't Trash Oldham: 'Betterment' work to improve our communities has started
Oldham Council are sprucing up the borough as part of the Don’t Trash Oldham campaign.
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Derelict site brought back into community use and continues to GROWE thanks to Oldham Council support
A new community growing and wellbeing facility has launched in Failsworth.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: Councillors bring community together to tackle fly-tipping
A network of volunteers in Abbey Hills have been working together to clean up their neighbourhood, after rubbish was recently dumped at a nearby church.
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Don’t Trash Oldham Year 2: Plans to tackle fly-tipping hotspots and improve local communities across the borough
Oldham Council’s cabinet recently approved plans to carry on the successful Don’t Trash Oldham campaign.
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Council closes 10 dirty food businesses until standards improve
Oldham Council has closed 10 takeaways over the last few weeks after they failed routine food hygiene inspections - potentially putting residents at risk.
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Hollinwood to get the Don’t Trash Oldham treatment
Oldham Council’s Don’t Trash Oldham team is heading into Hollinwood - the final area our staff will visit as part of the ward-by-ward clean-up of the borough launched last year.
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New Clean Air Plan to be discussed
Oldham Council’s Cabinet is set to discuss the draft Case for a New Greater Manchester Clean Air Plan – one that would not include daily charges for drivers.
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Man who allowed fires on his land ordered to pay more than £2,400
Oldham Council has successfully prosecuted a man who allowed burning to take place on land he owned – polluting the air for local residents.
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Want to improve your community? Then why not apply to the Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund
Oldham Council is urging residents to go greener.
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Inspection uncovered dead cockroaches throughout takeaway
A takeaway owner has pleaded guilty to food hygiene offences after dead cockroaches were discovered in his Failsworth eatery.
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Dirty food business was operating illegally
Magistrates have ordered a food business – and its owner – to hand over more than £8,700 after they operated illegally.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: Four prosecuted for environmental crimes
Oldham Council has successfully prosecuted four residents after they discarded waste and litter in the borough.
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Operation AVRO: former takeaway owner arrested and sentenced all in one day
The former owner of a dirty takeaway has been arrested, appeared in court and sentenced in just one day.
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Oldham leading the way to deliver clean and affordable energy
Oldham’s former coal mines could soon be heating buildings across the town centre thanks to an innovative scheme to tap into an unused, renewable energy source.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: Young people give back through Restorative Justice
Young people are supporting Don’t Trash Oldham and ‘giving back’ to the community.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: 6 months in and 144 tonnes of rubbish removed and 1,755 streets cleaned
Our Don’t Trash Oldham campaign continues to improve communities daily.
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Green Oldham: Environmentally friendly council trials solar panels on vehicles
Oldham Council has teamed up with local firm TRAILAR to trial new solar panel technology aimed at reducing fuel costs and making our vehicle fleet more environmentally friendly.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: café owner told he faces jail if waste fine isn’t paid
A café owner who thought it was ok to put his rubbish in other people’s bins rather than pay to have it collected – like everyone else does – has been ordered to pay £4,162.50.
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Our Don’t Trash Oldham campaign is supporting the Great British Spring Clean. Are you?
Our staff are out seven days a week cleaning up the borough.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: three more in court after their rubbish found dumped
Oldham Council continues to take action against residents who think it’s okay to dump their rubbish and blight the borough without repercussion.
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Don’t Trash Oldham: Man fined after waste found dumped on Ashton Road
Oldham Council has successfully prosecuted a resident for blighting his neighbourhood with rubbish.