Would you like to get more involved in your local area?
Would you like to volunteer at events or activities within the Shaw & Crompton area like the Christmas Lights Switch On ?
Are you interested in setting up new groups or supporting existing local community groups and organisations such as Friends of Dunwood Park
For more details please contact Anne Fleming on 0161 770 8172 / anne.fleming@oldham.gov.uk
Support and training will be offered.
Dear resident,
We are writing to let you know that we hope to undertake a wildflower and poppy meadow near to your home at Shawside/Milnrow Road.
The attached plan shows which area we are thinking of. Shawside Nursing Home site
We will need to go through the following stages to establish the meadows:
The meadows will take two years to establish and will be maintained appropriately. If after the two year period, residents are unhappy with the meadow, we will reinstate it as utility grass.
If you would like any further information about the process we will go through or the type of wildflower planting proposed, please do not hesitate to contact: Liz Fryman, District Coordinator, 0161 770 5161, elizabeth.fryman@oldham.gov.uk
We would like to seek the views of local residents before going ahead with the scheme, so please would you complete and return the attached form within seven days of receiving this letter.
Dear resident,
We are writing to let you know that we hope to undertake a wildflower and poppy meadow near to your home at Shawside/Milnrow Road.
The attached plan shows which area we are thinking of. Milnrow Road site
We will need to go through the following stages to establish the meadows:
The meadows will take two years to establish and will be maintained appropriately. If after the two year period, residents are unhappy with the meadow, we will reinstate it as utility grass.
If you would like any further information about the process we will go through or the type of wildflower planting proposed, please do not hesitate to contact: Liz Fryman, District Coordinator, 0161 770 5161, elizabeth.fryman@oldham.gov.uk
We would like to seek the views of local residents before going ahead with the scheme, so please would you complete and return the attached form within seven days of receiving this letter.
Before the road closure on Shaw Road due to the Gas Main works I asked that the signals at the above location could be altered to allow maximum flows from Shaw to Oldham/Oldham to Shaw.
Below is a summary of the current position I have received from Highways about this matter.
The signal timings have been stretched to accommodate through traffic.
The problem is the volume of traffic using the one main road due to the closures.
The closures are due to last two more weeks. It is the right turners at the junction that hold up traffic, but that was always the case even prior to the closures.
The Council had an initial problem on day one due to BT turning up unannounced and setting up temporary signals near to Heyside Avenue and a highway incursion barriered off on the bends at Heyside. They were quickly removed from site. Also, it can take four or five days for motorists to get used to the new routes and look at alternatives or varying their journey start times.
The Council was aware there would likely be severe disruption due to the volume of traffic but unfortunately there is not a lot that can be done about this. Some vehicles will use Royton / High Crompton and some will cut through estate roads on to Cornish Way / Blackshaw Lane. These routes are not sign posted.
We will experience similar problems when Crompton Way starts, as we will have two main roads of traffic approaching the roundabout and then traffic management on Crompton Way. At times I can see that we will have traffic queuing on the roundabout and down both Oldham Road and Manchester Road. Although the hours of working are off peak (9.30am-3.30pm) traffic will build up during the day and it could take some time to clear afterwards.
On a positive note, the contractor has informed us that he is ahead of schedule, so the temporary signals that were planned to last up to the end of October after the closures have come off, will not be as invasive as first thought.
On Tuesday, 21 July Shaw and Crompton held its first Community Market Place.
The Community Market Place is a different sort of meeting for the public. It is an informal setting where various organisations set up a ‘stall’ which allows members of the public to browse and stop and chat with them as they wish. It was held in the main hall of the Lifelong Learning Centre, High Street, Shaw and over 50 people and about 15 organisations attended.
Local Lib Dem Crompton Councillor Diane Williamson and Chair of the District Executive said: “Tuesday’s meeting was different from what we have done before. Local Shaw and Crompton Councillors decided to try this new approach as a way of allowing residents to talk with other organisations they frequently use as well as direct them to organisations that they may need to use in the future.”
Attending the event were the Shaw and Crompton Councillors, as well as Metrolink, First Bus, Housing 21, FCHO, Guinness, Oldham Community Leisure, Mahdlo, Macmillan, Community Safety and the Police, Environmental Services, plus Shaw & Crompton Parish Councillors
“We are looking at holding a similar event in about six months’ time, where we are hoping more organisations and residents attend,” said Shaw Lib Dem Councillor Howard Sykes MBE.
Once the Market Place event was over local Councillors then held the more formal and traditional District Executive.
At that meeting Councillor Diane Williamson and Councillor Howard Sykes proposed and seconded a resolution asking Oldham Council to bring forward proposals about improving highway and pedestrian safety at the junction of Fraser Street, Chamber Road and Rochdale Road.
“Both Shaw and Crompton Councillors are contacted regularly about this junction and we are doing what residents are asking us; which is to see what can be done to make that bit of Rochdale Road safer,” said Councillor Diane Williamson.
The tennis courts are now open after patching up work was completed.
SHAW & CROMPTON COMMUNITY FORUM and DISTRICT EXECUTIVE
Tuesday 21 July 2015
Community Forum at 6.00pm
Followed by
District Executive meeting to start 7.00pm
Shaw Lifelong Learning Centre,
High Street, Shaw OL2 8TB
ALL WELCOME
Come along and talk to the Councillors and Officers Who work in and for your local area
(Police, Highways, Environmental Services, Housing Providers, Youth Service and more)
Working together we can address:
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Life Long Learning Centre, High Street, Shaw.
There will be information, hints and tips on:
For young people:
Workshops on:
Pop along to this great event.
I have been informed by Oldham Council that there are some very small pockets of work outstanding on our garden and food waste collections in the following areas:
Kendal Drive area
The Orchards
Wood Street area
I have been told this work will be completed tomorrow.
