This isn’t just a quick tidy-up. It’s proper deep cleaning, rapid fly-tipping removal, and a zero-tolerance approach to environmental crime – street by street, alleyway by alleyway, covering the whole of our borough.
𝗪𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗵, 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲, 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘁 & 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱 have already seen major clean-ups, with teams tackling long-neglected alleyways, roads and hotspots. Just as important, it’s great to hear that council teams have been knocking on doors, listening to residents and working through the real causes of fly-tipping, from poor alleyway design to bin storage and high tenant turnover.
The message from residents has been clear: the clean-ups are welcome, confidence is growing, and people want to help keep their neighbourhoods looking better. That’s exactly the culture change we need.
Since the campaign relaunch in November, community involvement has really taken off. Our Labour-led Council deserve huge credit for putting real time, effort and resources into tackling fly-tipping & focusing on the issues that matter most to local people when they open their doors and stand on their doorstep everyday.
And this is just the start: more streets, more wards, and more progress to come as Don’t Trash Oldham continues rolling out across 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧 & 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐭𝐨𝐧 in the weeks and months ahead 💪
📩 Fly-tipping reports are continuing to go up and we are encouraging local people to keep on reporting concerns to my team at jim.mamchon.uk@parliament.uk so that we can end this crime for good.
Jim McMahon OBE MP 