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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 ...
Oldham Council elections (20 P) Pages in category "Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Oldham council's coat of arms, seen here at the Civic Centre. Following the 1974 reorganisation, a new coat of arms was granted to Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, based closely on that of the predecessor Oldham County Borough Council. Like the county borough's arms, which dated from 1894, the new coat is derived from the arms of the Oldham ...
Greater Manchester was created as a metropolitan county composed of ten metropolitan boroughs on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972.From its investiture through to 31 March 1986, the county had a two-tier system of local government; district councils shared power with Greater Manchester County Council.
McMahon in 2015. McMahon was first elected as a Member of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council for Failsworth East in a by-election on 20 November 2003. He held various posts on Oldham Council before becoming the council's Labour group leader in 2008 after the Liberal Democrats won control of the authority.
The facility had its own Cold War nuclear bunker built to protect senior councillors, council officers, police officers, engineers, doctors and communications experts in the event of a nuclear attack. [7] [8] The tower in the facility, which now forms the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, is 175 feet (53 metres) high. [9]
The main road from Oldham to Huddersfield passes through the locality, which also facilitated this urbanisation. Greenacres Cemetery is one of Oldham's largest municipal cemeteries ; the land was purchased by Oldham Municipal Borough Council in 1850 and it opened in 1857.
Tourist attractions in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Metropolitan Borough of Oldham" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.