MARKET STREET SHAW AREA – TEMPORARY CLOSURE NOTICE 2019 – Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June

Shaw & Crompton Family Weekend Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June 2019

The Oldham Borough Council hereby gives Notice that no person shall cause any vehicle to proceed in that part of 

Market Street from High Street to Rochdale Road

Farrow Street East from High Street for 30 metres westerly

Milne Street from high Street for 20 metres easterly

The restrictions are required to facilitate the Shaw and Crompton Family Weekend Event and will be in force from 6am on Saturday 22nd June 2019 until 6pm on Sunday 23rd June 2019.

The alternative route for those affected by the restriction shall be Beal Lane/Eastway/Greenfield Lane – in both directions

High Crompton Post Office is Open!

Councillor Diane Williamson and her Crompton Councillor Colleagues have welcomed the news that High Crompton Post Office and Londis has re-opened following a ram raid which saw the well-used community asset put out of action for several months.

Diane said “the loss of this building had a massive impact on local residents that’s why my colleagues have been working with the owners of Post Office to put measures in place so that hopefully it will never happen again”

In a joint operation with Councillors, Council Officers, Highway Engineers and the owners a raised reinforced kerb will be installed in the front of the building.

Cllr Williamson added “we are also using this opportunity to install a number of railings at the side of the car park to prevent users of the car park exiting over the footpath instead of going back out the way they came” 


Oldham urged to use recycled plastic bottles and bags to build roads

Plastic bottles and bags are being recycled into an asphalt mixture to produce roads that are kinder to the environment and, manufacturers claim, longer lasting.

A process that creates plastic pellets from waste bottles and bags and melts them into asphalt makes for stronger roads and less waste.

A number of councils around the UK are testing the ‘plastic roads’.

The process involves making plastic pellets from bottles and bags that would otherwise be destined for landfill sites. The pellets are then melted into the asphalt mix to act as a binding agent plastic makes up roughly 0.5% of the mixture.

Cllr Dave Murphy Shadow Cabinet Member for Neighbourhood Services said I understand that Highway Officers from Oldham Council have previously looked at this idea but have concerns over the plastic leaching out in to the water course but I believe this idea has merit and I have asked that Officers revisit the scheme and have provided them with a contact at a company who specialise in the product so they can obtain more information.

This can only be a positive move that we are encouraging Oldham to use. There will be less maintenance so we will be saving money. The formula makes the performance of the road much greater and part of the bitumen in the mix, that is fossil fuel is replaced by single use plastic.

Our analogy is that traditional bitumen is a bit like a Pritt Stick – what we have is a superglue. It binds the material together to form a much stronger and longer lasting bind, so we have less flaking or anything coming off”.

Councillor Hazel Gloster member for Shaw ward, added “There would also be less landfill tax because we’re not sending plastic into landfill. Although, at the moment, the pellets are slightly more expensive than bitumen, bitumen depends on the price of oil so that wouldn’t necessarily always be the case. Also, it uses a lot less binder or using our analogy glue, so there’s a saving there. It’s really quite exciting. Instead of using bitumen, which is a product of the oil industry, it uses plastics which would normally go into landfill so it’s environmentally friendly as well as being a good, hard surface for the road.”

Cllr Murphy concluded by saying “the world is using more plastics than it can responsibly dispose of we have seen shocking images in the media of plastics in our oceans and it is only right that as a local authority we look at innovative ways to dispose of our waste plastics.”