Bins update Shaw and Crompton Fri 19 May

Following a vehicle breakdown this afternoon I have been informed there are two very small pockets of work outstanding as follows: paper/card collections on Rochdale Road, near to Crompton House School and Alfred Street, Shaw area.

Given this is a small amount of work we will return first thing Monday – leave bins out or re-present before 07:15 on Monday.

Lib Dem Opposition Leadership Team for 2017/18 announced – Oldham Council

Following a Group meeting on 15 May, the Oldham Borough Liberal Democrat Group has announced their appointment, unanimously and un-opposed, of Councillor Howard Sykes MBE as their Leader and Councillor John McCann as their Deputy Leader.

Councillor Sykes has also announced the appointment of his Shadow Cabinet Team for 2017/18.

Councillor Howard Sykes said: “I am delighted and honoured that John and I have once again received the unanimous support of our party colleagues. The Liberal Democrats remain the only effective opposition holding Labour to account on Oldham Council.”

“Under my Leadership, and with the support of my Shadow Cabinet Team, we will continue as a group to speak up and work hard for the residents of this Borough, particularly those who are marginalised or disenchanted with Labour, who want to hear an independent, common sense voice speaking out for them for better and more accountable public services.”

“As the Liberal Democrat Opposition, we shall oppose further central government cuts on Council finances and help fight our corner in negotiations with the new Greater Manchester Mayor and devolved authority so that Oldham gets its fair deal.”

“In June, we shall face a difficult General Election. The Liberal Democrats are a growing party of over 100,000 members with a dynamic leader in Tim Farron and a radical policy agenda for a stronger economy and a fairer society, including more financial support for local government. We also want to see the right deal in place on Europe that preserves cross-Channel trade on fair terms and leaves us on friendly relations with our continental neighbours.”

“I am confident that everyone in the party will be fighting hard to return as many of our Liberal Democrat colleagues as possible. I wish all of our Liberal Democrat candidates well in the forthcoming battle, especially those fighting the three Parliamentary seats in our Borough.”

Notes: details of positions are below.

The Lib Dem Group:

Leader – Cllr Howard Sykes;
Deputy Leader – Cllr John McCann;
Group Chair – Cllr Chris Gloster;
Group Vice-Chair – Cllr Rod Blyth;
Political Secretary – Cllr Garth Harkness;
Treasurer – Cllr Derek Heffernan;
Group Secretary – Cllr Diane Williamson

Shadow Cabinet (Shadow Executive Members):

Howard Sykes Economy and Enterprise (Opposition Leader);

Julia Turner Education and Early Years;

Garth Harkness Employment and Skills;

Rod Blyth Social Care and Safeguarding;

Chris Gloster Health and Well-being;

Diane Williamson Neighbourhoods and Cooperatives;

Dave Murphy Environmental Services;

John McCann Finance and HR.

GM Fire and Rescue: Cllr Derek Heffernan

Transport for Greater Manchester: Cllr Howard Sykes

Audit Committee: Spokesperson – Cllr Garth Harkness

Overview and Scrutiny Board: Spokesperson – Cllr Diane Williamson

Performance and Value for Money Committee: Spokesperson – Cllr Rod Blyth

Planning Committee: Spokesperson – Cllr Rod Blyth

Licensing Committee: Spokesperson – Cllr Chris Gloster

Standards Committee: Spokesperson – Cllr Diane Williamson

Health and Well-being Board: Spokesperson – Cllr Rod Blyth

Petitions and Traffic Regulation orders: Spokesperson – Cllr Chris Gloster

District Executive: Shaw and Crompton – Chair Cllr Diane Williamson;

Saddleworth and Lees – Spokesperson Cllr Garth Harkness.

Liberal Democrat Leader welcomes Dementia Awareness Week

The Leader of the Opposition and Liberal Democrat Group on Oldham Council, Councillor Howard Sykes MBE, has welcomed the start of Dementia Awareness Week (14-20 May).

Councillor Sykes, wants to raise public awareness of this important event:

“With most of the media focus on the uncertainty of Brexit and the outcome of the General Election, it might be easy to overlook this campaign launched yesterday as part of the Dementia Friends’ initiative by the Alzheimer’s Society, yet, with our aging society, dementia represents a massive health time bomb that we all need to know about and act upon.”

Councillor Sykes added:

“For the seven days, people across the nation of all political persuasions and none will be working to shine a spotlight on the devastating consequences of dementia.  More details about the week can be found on the Alzheimer’s Society website – the link is shown below.  Here you can find out more about what you can do to help combat this terrible disease.”

“In July last year, the Liberal Democrat Group brought forward a motion to Council identifying a programme of practical steps to help make Oldham Council and its public sector partners more dementia friendly, but we cannot do this alone – we want and need every one of our Borough’s residents to get involved so I would urge everyone to get involved to help make the awareness week a resounding success.”

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/info/20167/dementia_awareness_week

Green waste collections ‘rural’ and hard to reach areas Shaw and Crompton

Please be aware that the organic country round vehicle suffered a major fault breakdown on Thursday 11th May.

This means that the council have a half a day’s work from Thursday (11th May) and all of Friday’s (12th May) food and garden collections outstanding.

Please be advised that they will be sending vehicles out on Saturday and hope to clear all outstanding work.

Please advise leave waste containers out for collection.