Latest Oldham plan for 11,560 homes - and where they'll be

A huge new plan to build more than 11,000 homes across Oldham over the next two decades has been drafted.

The Oldham Local Plan is currently under review and is directly related to the Places for Everyone scheme - the wider housing plan for 175,000 new homes in Greater Manchester. This local plan, hoping to deliver 11,560 homes by 2039, delves deeper into the significance this could have on the borough itself.

Although there are many factors taken into consideration in this 206-page document, housing, offices, and industry form the main focal points of the plan.

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Through improved housing and greater work opportunities, this plan hopes to create a better borough for those living within it. According to the local plan, the population of over 240,000 suffers with significant health inequalities, higher unemployment and is the 19th most deprived local authority area in the country.

The delivery of 11,560 new homes forms a key part of this ambitious plan to break this mould, whilst maintaining Oldham’s control over what this would look like. It is believed that greater investment in the area through housing and industry can help create more jobs and opportunity in the future as well as when development is going on over the next two decades.

The local plan stated: “Through delivering Oldham Council’s bold vision for Oldham town centre and the wider borough and the ambitions of Creating a Better Place by 2030 Oldham will be a place where business and enterprise can thrive and where people will want to live, visit, relax and work.

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