OMBC has signed an agreement with property investment and development firm Langtree to bring business and leisure developments to four sites. Yippee! the town centre will be all a-buzz again! Er, sorry, No. When we said just around the corner it's actually three miles down the road in Hollinwood.
Plans include attracting new businesses at the former mill site in Albert Street — including a cinema.
Oldham’s last picture house was the now-demolished Roxy just pissing distance from the proposed new development, which closed its doors in 2005 after 69 years of business. Mainly because of some grandiose hidden agenda that the Lie-bour council had up it's sleeve and also because business had fallen dramatically.
Council leader Jim
“By signing on the dotted line Oldham Council has signalled its commitment to work with Langtree to transform this area into a destination which will attract investors and new businesses.”, said the clueless fucker. Where will it attract investors and new businesses from and why would they want to come here? There is no infrastructure in place to accommodate new companies. There is no business plan for Oldham. No-one on Oldham Council has the faintest idea of 'business'.
Langtree was chosen as the council’s development partner in 2007 but the credit crunch forced both parties to review their plans. They are now ready to return to the market....... But hold a moment.
Our own Charlie Chuckles "Turd" Parker was previously the director of investment and performance at English Partnerships and a member of its executive management board. Two members of langtree's board were also at English Partnerships: From langtree's website: John Downes. John is the Managing Director of Langtree. Before joining Langtree he held a senior position with English Partnerships in Liverpool.
Stephen Barnes. Stephen Barnes is a Chartered Surveyor and Langtree’s Board Director (Development). He has been with Langtree for 8 years. During this time, Stephen has been heavily involved in growing Langtree's development business and encouraging the Company's partnership with the public sector. Previously, Stephen spent 5 years with the North West Development Agency and English Partnerships.
Coincidence.....or what?????
Managing director John Downes said: “Hollinwood’s proximity to the M60 and other key gateways makes it an incredibly desirable proposition for ambitious investors.” Don't think much of HIS judgement then. It is a cramped site with difficult access. Methinks the keyword here is 'investors', think tax write offs.
Does anyone in the Lie-bour administration ever give a moments thought to all these new fangled ideas they keep coming up with? A bee in their bonnet from 2007 and they're off and running again, can't wait to start squandering OUR money. In case you've forgotten Sunny Jim and your band of pillocks it's supposed to be the town we're regenerating cos the MissingLink is going to bring people in in vast hordes. Or has this been the agenda all along, let's have the trams so we can shift people out of town?
To show that there are people still left in Oldham, capable of rational thought, we reproduce a comment from the OEC Thurs 23/6. This comment was sent by ProDriver who seems to have more planning nous than the whole of OMBC. Read it you numb brainfarts of council drones! Read it Sunny Jim! It might not be the complete answer, but by fuck it's a lot better idea than yours.
THINK - THINK - THINK -THINK - THINK- THINK - THINK - THINK - THINK
Anyone agree with us? If so contact your councillor. Let them know what WE think, what WE want. What we need are facilities within easy reach of the whole borough not holed up in a field, miles away at the side of a motorway!
"Good grief Jim, are you mad? Spending all this
money on Metrolink to the town centre, then going back to the site of a
failed cinema??
Instead of a park and ride on the old B&Q site, that whole area
should have been prime leisure development land. Right by the dual
carriageway, right on a main route into Oldham from densely populated
areas and right by Metrolink. Are you people for real?"
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