Pleased to report this fly-tipping has now been removed, following my intervention, including the asbestos.
If anybody has any information about who might have done this or other fly-tipping in Shaw and Crompton please let me or the authorities know.
This costs council tax payers hundreds of thousands pounds every year, money that could be better spent. Cowboy’s like this need bring to book, hopefully there will be something in this waste that allows it to be traced where it came from and the fly-tippers can be made to pay.
Shaw Liberal Democrat Councillors have written to the residents of Dunwood Park Courts and along Milnrow Road asking them to sign a petition in support of restoring a bus service along the whole of Milnrow Road.
Councillor Howard Sykes MBE, who also serves as Oldham’s representative on the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee, is co-ordinating the effort to get as many residents as possible to support the campaign.
Councillor Sykes said: “From January, the 181/2 bus services coming from Manchester terminated at Wrens Nest and the 408 now turns onto and off Buckstones Road so no bus travels along the whole of Milnrow Road to Wrens Nest.”
“Shaw Councillors have received many complaints from residents who rely on public transport who are now finding it more difficult to connect with other bus services. If they are unable to walk to Wrens Nest, they have to use taxis to get a bus, which means more expense and inconvenience for people who are in many cases retired and living on a pension or have a low income.”
Residents of Milnrow Road, Dunwood Park Courts, Railway View, Bridge Street, and Goats currently have no bus connection with Wrens Nest, and Councillor Sykes thinks a petition will help him get their voices heard.
Councillor Sykes added: “From before the changes were made, I was lobbying Transport for Greater Manchester to step in and plug this gap. I have raised this issue in committee meetings and in private conversation with officers to try and rectify the matter. However, nothing has changed for the better.
“I am asking constituents to help put this right by signing this petition. The more signatures we raise the better. Bus services are just that services, and at present Dunwood Park Court and Milnrow Road residents are not being served.”
Paper copies of the petition can be obtained from howard.sykes@oldham.gov.uk or an online version can be used at:
Come and try your hand at the historic art of dry-stone walling. This is the perfect opportunity to have a go, and learn how to take down and re-build a dry-stone wall within the beautiful setting of Crompton Moor.
No experience is necessary, and all tools, protective eyewear, and materials will be provided.
Please dress, according to the weather, and you will require stout outdoor footwear and work gloves. Please bring a packed lunch and something to drink.
We will meet in Brushes Clough car park, on Crompton Moor, at 10:30 am and finish around 3:00 pm.
If you have any questions, please let us know by email – romptonmoor@gmail.com, or you can call us on 07792 156295.
Booking is essential for this popular event.
Kind Regards, Marian Herod, Secretary – Friends of Crompton Moor
As yet another wildfire ravages Marsden Moor, Saddleworth North Liberal Democrat Councillor Garth Harkness is backing the No Moor BBQs campaign of the British Mountaineering Council for a complete ban on disposable barbecues, and wants to see more action and powers to tackle the arsonists who deliberately or inadvertently set fire to precious moorland.
Councillor Harkness is standing for election again next month and intends to take this issue up as a priority if returned to office.
“We have all seen the devastation caused by idiots who start fires deliberately or irresponsibly use and leave disposable barbecues,” councillor Harkness said. “Too much of our precious and beautiful moorland has over the years already been lost to this madness and along with it sadly much of our wildlife.”
It is estimated that since 2007 over 77km2 of moorland in the Peak District alone has been destroyed as a result of wildfires, many of which were caused through disposable BBQs.
Councillor Harkness added: “The government needs to outlaw portable barbeques and allow the Courts to impose a heavy fine upon those who are prosecuted. The current penalties are simply not enough. That is why I am backing the British Mountaineering Council campaign for No Moor BBQs.”
Oldham Council Planning Committee, on Wednesday 21 April, have deferred a decision on the proposed change of use to a hostel for the former Weavers Answer Public House, Milnrow Road Shaw in order for the developers to answer questions raised by a local resident Suzanne Booth and councillor Chris Gloster at the meeting.
Issues raised related to the unsuitability of rooms with in the premises, inappropriate location of main entrance, lack of recreational facilities such as a residents lounge, arrangements for location and storage of waste and finally lack of information to reassure the community as to the intended ‘care’ element of the premises in order that the premises do not become an ‘unregulated doss house’ as described by the Chair of the Committee.
Councillor Gloster said: “residents have a genuine fear that these premises could introduce crime and disorder into the community and seek reassurance from the developers that this will not be the case, and are simply asking that they are open and transparent with them as to what actions the developers will take if permission is granted to allay the residents fears.”
The developers will be expected to return to the committee with the answers so the application can be properly considered.
Oldham Liberal Democrat councillors have welcomed the call by General Lord Dannatt, former Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, for March 23, the date upon which the first national Lockdown was introduced in 2020, to be designated as Britain’s Annual Covid-19 Memorial Day. Lord Dannatt wants the new day to be marked with a minute’s silence and a new emblem like the poppies that symbolise Remembrance Sunday.
The Local Government Association (LGA), which is the national body representing local authorities; and councillor Sykes serves as Vice Chair and Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group; are also backing the national campaign for the creation of Coronavirus monuments in every area, along with a national memorial in Whitehall.
At the last meeting of Oldham Council 24 March 2021, Councillor Sykes asked the Leader of the Council to work with him to create a local COVID-19 memorial to remember the “sacrifice, suffering, courage and selflessness in our borough in the future.” He spoke in support of the proposal for both a local and national memorial and an annual day: “We have war memorials in our cities, towns and villages, and remembrance gardens, like in my own Shaw Ward, and we hold Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day commemorations to remember the sacrifice of those who in past wars laid down their lives to safeguard our freedoms.”
“COVID-19 represents the worst post-war national crisis this country has faced. Now it is time that we look to do the same in remembrance of the victims of COVID-19 and in recognition of the courage, selflessness, professionalism, and fortitude of those medical, emergency and key workers who have given so much to save lives, ease suffering, and keep our country going during this last long terrible year,” added councillor Sykes.
“A memorial in every area and an annual day for our nation will represent a place and an opportunity to people to come together to reflect, to grieve, to remember but also to be thankful and to hope.”
Local Liberal Democrats are continuing to lead the fight to protect our public green spaces. Oldham and Saddleworth Liberal Democrats are saying NO to Conservative Government plans to replace the local management of National Parks with a so-called National Landscape Service, states Saddleworth North Liberal Democrat Councillor Garth Harkness.
The Conservative Government is expected to make an announcement shortly (may be after May 6) on the future of National Parks, like the Peak District, as well as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty after a two-year delay following the Glover Review in 2019.
17 April marked the seventieth anniversary of the Peak District National Park, and Councillor Harkness is greatly concerned about plans to scrap, or downgrade, the National Park Authorities in favour of a centrally controlled and distant National Landscape Service.
“This is one unwanted anniversary present that the Peak District National Park could do without,” said Councillor Harkness. “Parts of Saddleworth are included within the Peak District National Park and I know the Park is precious to everyone, both the people who live and work in it but to the thousands of visitors.”
“The Liberal Democrats believe strongly that local public organisations like the National Parks should be managed and be accountable locally. At present, Oldham Council has an elected member on the Board. How can the Peak District and our other National Parks be better preserved and protected by a new National Landscape Authority which there will be no local representation and that is accountable to no-one?”
“I will campaign to stop this Conservative Government from transferring control over the Peak District National Park from local authorities to Whitehall civil servants,” added Councillor Harkness. “Liberal Democrat councillors in Oldham and Saddleworth will be totally opposed to the abolition of the Peak District National Park Authority and we will fight any plans to do so.”
FCM have another drystone walling event and some more wetland / leaky dam work this Saturday the 24th of April.
Meet in Brushes Clough car park at 10:30 am.
If you have gloves please bring them, but no worries if not as we do have supplies. Sturdy boots are a must for this event. All other tools are provided.
Come for an hour, or stay till the finish. No experience necessary.
Please let me know if you are able to come along as we need to make sure we have enough tools etc for everyone.
Best regards,
Marian Herod, Secretary – Friends of Crompton Moor, www.cromptonmoor.co.uk; 07792 156295
