After morning meetings it was a real tonic to attend one of our regular clean up events. Residents around Kimberley Street, Hollinwood mucked in to really make a difference.
I’m so proud of our town and the people who make it a great place to live. We know we have some people who don’t take the care we deserve, and littering and fly tipping has gone too far in places. But the vast majority of decent people shouldn’t have to live with it.
By working together as one community we can make big jobs like alleyway clean ups easier to do. But we need those landlords, residents and businesses who contribute to the mess to step up. If not the council will need to make an example out of more people whose actions ruin the town.
I am really pleased to see the council pledging more investment in street cleaning and getting the basics right. We all deserve to live in a clean and safe neighbourhood and every child should have somewhere to play safely too.
We’ll keep going, and I hope more and more join the march to clean up Oldham with us #loveoldham
Jim McMahon OBE MP 