03/11/2022
Our teams, together with colleagues from Oldham Council and our contractor Casey were out in force tackling fly tipping and waste again last week - this time in the West Street/Vale Drive neighbourhood. The session on 26 November was set up to help local people to get rid of bulky items. Our cont...
02/11/2022
Annual Report 2021/22 We're delighted to share with you our Annual Report 2021/22. Improving lives in Oldham is at the heart of everything we do, and this report covers how we performed against our three main priorities for the year: Building new homes Creating thriving communities Delivering ex...
01/11/2022
We have received reports that some of our customers are being targeted by cold callers falsely claiming to be from First Choice Homes Oldham and asking to discuss issues with repairs at their home. On some occasions these callers have been aggressive. These people are visiting customers’ homes an...
31/10/2022
Our partnership with affordable food service, The Bread and Butter Thing, has meant we’ve been able to give our customers access to great value food for a fraction of the price since 2019. We currently operate from five hubs across Oldham, but when demand for the service began to increase drastic...
30/10/2022
Our Neighbourhood Care team is getting ready to bring some extra spring colour to Derker next year, by planting thousands of flower bulbs in the neighbourhood. You may have seen our groundwork contractor busy at work planting up almost 2000m2 of green space at Whetstone Hill Road.
26/10/2022
Exciting news! We currently have 297 new build homes under construction across 11 development schemes in Oldham, Rochdale and Kirklees, as well as 40 homes in Rochdale in the development pipeline – helping us tackle the shortage of affordable housing locally and achieve our ambitious development...
18/10/2022
We’re getting behind Challenge Poverty Week 17-23 October and highlighting our work with our partners including Oldham Council to help tackle and prevent and poverty here in our borough. Our specialist teams can help you make the most of your money, support you to pay your rent and charges, assis...
17/10/2022
We’re putting housing fraud in the spotlight as we support Charity Fraud Awareness Week.
13/10/2022
Our investment team has invested £50k in its first major clean-up of the West St neighbourhood, as part of regeneration work in the area. We know how important it is for us to invest in existing homes and green spaces around them, alongside progressing our new build West Vale development. Over t...
07/10/2022
We are celebrating after September was our highest performing development month to date, helping us keep up momentum on supply of much-needed, new affordable homes and moving us closer to the targets set out in our development strategy 2020-26. Our team took handover of 28 great new homes in Royt...