"Oldham Council love to waste money": Residents react after Mumps plans axed AGAIN

Oldham residents have reacted with disappointment and resignation after a town centre regeneration scheme has been scrapped for the second time.

Prince's Gate at Oldham Mumps was set to undergo a 'game-changing' transformation, with plans drawn up to build a Lidl supermarket and a hotel on the site. But Lidl's contract was cancelled earlier this week by the council cabinet after the supermarket said it could no longer deliver the hotel under the contract.

It comes after plans to build a new Marks and Spencer store fell through in 2016, two years after being announced. Oldham residents now say they are fed up with the 'constant changing' - but the Council say they are committed to redevloping the site and it is a 'good time' to reconsider the plans

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Cath Brayshaw, from Oldham, said she wasn't surprised by the news of the plans being scrapped, and she didn't have much faith in regeneration schemes from the council.

"Oldham Council just love to waste money," she told the M.E.N. "They keep planning things, and then they just fall though. Why do they do that?"

It was a sentiment echoed by Joan, Barbara, and their friends, who were out in Oldham shopping. They called Oldham's town planners 'dreadful' and said they felt Oldham had bigger problems than Prince's Gate.

"I just think the whole place is a mess, and that needs sorting before they start doing other things," Barbara said. "I've no time for Oldham Council," Joan added.

Tina and Martin work in the Oldham Mumps area. They said they felt disappointed by the decision to scrap the plans as they hoped a cheap supermarket would be built in Oldham town centre.

"We would have liked an Aldi here," Tina