Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The council styles itself Oldham Council rather than its full formal name of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council. [10] From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater Manchester's ...
The Coat of Arms of the Oldham County Borough Council, as found at Oldham Police Station. The station predates the merging of Oldham Borough Police into Lancashire Constabulary in 1969, and thus still displays the redundant arms. Prior to 1894, the town council made use of the arms of the Oldham family. The arms were blazoned as:
The district was granted honorific borough status on 23 November 1973 by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, which allowed the council to have a mayor. [10] The new dual local authorities of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council and Greater Manchester County Council had been running since elections in 1973 however. [11]
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time. Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, generally known as Oldham Council , is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester , England.
In the financial year 2019/20, local authorities received 22% of their funding from grants, 52% from council tax and 27% from retained business rates. [61] In the financial year 2023/24, 51% of revenue expenditure is expected to come from UK Government grants, 31% from council tax and 15% from retained business rates. [27]
In the 2011 United Kingdom census Oldham Built-up area subdivision, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, had a population of 96,555 and an area of 1,687 hectares (6.51 sq mi), giving a population density of 57.2 inhabitants per hectare (14,800/sq mi), [8] while the Borough of Oldham had a population of 224,897, an area of 14,236 ...
Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton (known as Oldham West and Royton prior to 2024) [2] is a constituency [n 1] in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. [ n 2 ] It has been represented by the Labour Party since its creation in 1997.
Former chairman of Essex County Council: Lord Black of Crossharbour: Non-affiliated: 9 July 2024 Life peer Businessman, former newspaper publisher, convicted fraudster Baroness Corston: Labour 9 July 2024 Life peer Former MP for Bristol East and Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party: Lord Davies of Oldham: Labour 9 July 2024 Life peer