01/03/2021
From this week our Neighbourhood Care team will be out in neighbourhoods getting ready for the grass cutting season to begin later in March. Among the jobs you’re likely to see the team doing is spraying weeds in FCHO owned areas. You’ll be able to spot them because they will be dressed in protec...
26/02/2021
Great news! We’ve recently achieved a fully compliant G1/V1 rating for our governance and viability following the Regulator of Social Housing’s Stability Check. The regulator’s role is to make sure all registered providers of social housing in England: Protect social housing assets Ensure provid...
24/02/2021
We have launched our fifth The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) hub today, 24 February at Bethesda Church in Royton, making affordable food available to our customers five days a week. Our partnership with TBBT helps increase the amount of disposable income in our customers' pockets, so they don’t h...
23/02/2021
Our organisation is led by our Board made up of between eight and 12 non-executive directors. Their role is to lead, direct, scrutinise and evaluate our work and help us to deliver high quality services to our customers and be the excellent landlord we strive to be. Over the coming months we will...
22/02/2021
Thanks to everyone who got in involved in our public consultation on plans to redevelop land off Vale Drive, Oldham where the towerblocks, Crossbank House and Summervale House, now stand. In total we received 22 responses during the consultation period 8-22 January 2021. These came from a range...
19/02/2021
This winter our Grounds Maintenance team has been using battery operated machinery to keep neighbourhoods looking great - and the new kit helps our team to stay safer at work and offers better environmental performance, too! The team has been using the new equipment – which includes hedgecutters...
18/02/2021
Strengthening our relationships with you, our customers, is so important to us, which is why we have signed up to the National Housing Federation’s (NHF) Together with Tenants Charter. This charter was drawn up by the NHF after speaking to lots of social housing customers and housing providers. I...
16/02/2021
Competition now closed We’re encouraging people in the Alt neighbourhood to take part in our competition to name a street at our new development off Cherry Avenue and make their own piece of history. We are transforming a plot of land off Cherry Avenue which was formerly vacant. In its place we a...
15/02/2021
Our Neighbourhood Officer Lisa joined GMP’s Central Oldham team on Monday for a mini-operation in Coldhurst to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB). The operation, organised by GMP, saw Lisa join officers on patrols around the area following a recent rise in ASB-related crime and incidents by youth...
09/02/2021
If you live in Oldham, Oldham Council want to hear your views on their plans to redevelop the Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre. The council has recently purchased the shopping centre and has announced plans to relocate Tommyfield Market into the centre. The site of the current Tommyfield Mar...