12/01/2022
Great news to start the year! We have signed a contract with Tameside-based housebuilder, John Southworth Builders to bring new, green homes for affordable rent to Chadderton. We're investing £1million to build nine one-bedroom apartments on a brownfield site off Burnley Lane. The new homes are d...
12/01/2022
Do you want to shape services to make them better for you, your family and other First Choice Homes Oldham customers? If the answer’s yes, then join our Customer Voice Panel (CVP) this month and make a difference to how our services are delivered to you, your home and community. Our next CVP meet...
22/12/2021
We’d like to say a huge thank you to businesses in our supply chain, local partners and colleagues who this year have donated a tremendous £3,600 plus a mountain of presents to help make our Christmas gift collection our biggest yet!Your generosity means that more than 1,000 customers and people...
21/12/2021
We want you to love where you live and know fly tipping is an issue in a number of specific neighbourhoods, which is why we are leading on our own initiatives and also working with Oldham Council to take action.
17/12/2021
Great news! We have completed 20 new homes in Littleborough, Rochdale in time for Christmas.Four one-bedroom apartments, eight two-bedroom houses and eight three-bedroom houses at the Phoenix Ironworks development on Howarth St have been built by our development partner, Rochdale-based, Casey.The...
16/12/2021
The snow was no match for our teams up in Holts recently. Birch Hall Close and Crowhill View were chosen as the locations for our second environmental day held on 29 November 2021. The session was designed to help tidy up the streets, which are known to be fly tipping hotspots, educate customers...
14/12/2021
Great news! After standing at the gateway to Oldham town centre for almost 50 years, work to demolish two tower blocks, Crossbank House and Summervale House, has begun. The much-anticipated work signals the start of our transformation of the neighbourhood west of Oldham town centre. Following the...
13/12/2021
Keeping customers and colleagues safe is our priority, and this week we've become a registered signatory of the Building a Safer Future Charter. This strengthens our commitment to putting people’s safety first in how we plan for, design, build, maintain, and look after the safety of our homes. Th...
07/12/2021
A Failsworth tenant who has made neighbours’ life a misery has been evicted from his FCHO home. Gary Brookes, aged 32 of Old Rd, Failsworth was evicted from his flat for breaching his tenancy agreement with a catalogue of antisocial behaviour (ASB) incidents. Disturbances were a common occurrence...
06/12/2021
Our Annual Report 2020/21 is now available! Putting our customers first is at the heart of everything we do, and the report covers how we’ve performed in delivering our services to you and your neighbourhoods. 2020/21 was a year like no other and the pandemic hit our borough hard. Throughout our...