Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
| Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council | |
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| Third of council elected three years out of four | |
| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | Unicameral |
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Term limits
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None |
| History | |
| Founded | 1 April 1974 |
| Structure | |
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Joint committees
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Greater Manchester Combined Authority Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel |
| Elections | |
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Last election
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2014 (one third of councillors) 2015 (one third of councillors) 2016 (one third of councillors) |
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Next election
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2018 (one third of councillors) 2019 (one third of councillors) 2020 (one third of councillors) |
| Website | |
| www |
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Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in Oldham.It is composed of 60 councillors, three for each of the 20 electoral wards of the borough.
Currently the council is controlled by the Labour Party, Cllr Jean Stretton, the council's first-ever female leader.
Carolyn Wilkins became the local authority’s first-ever female chief executive, having been formally appointed to the post in summer 2014.
Many, but not all, of the council’s staff are based at the Civic Centre in Oldham town centre.
Oldham Council is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. The borough is named after its largest town, Oldham, but also includes the outlying towns of Chadderton, Failsworth, Royton and Shaw and Crompton, the village of Lees, and the parish of Saddleworth.
The borough was formed in 1974 as part of the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972. It is an amalgamation of the former County Borough of Oldham with the Chadderton, Crompton, Lees, Royton urban districts of Lancashire and the Saddleworth Urban District of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
For its first 12 years the borough had a two-tier system of local government: Oldham Council sharing power with the Greater Manchester County Council.
Since the Local Government Act 1985 Oldham Council has effectively been a unitary authority, serving as the sole executive, deliberative and legislative body responsible for local policy, setting council tax, and allocating budget in the district. The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham has two civil parishes and 20 electoral wards. The parish councils are involved in planning, management of town and parish centres, and promoting tourism. In 2001, 46,072 people lived in Oldham's two civil parishes—Saddleworth and Shaw and Crompton—20.9% of the borough's population. The rest of the borough is unparished.
Since 2011 Oldham is one of the ten member authorities of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) which is a top tier local authority with responsibility for Transport, Health, Housing and Economic matters. The membership of the Combined Authority is drawn from the Leaders or Executive Mayors of each of the ten councils.
In 2011 Oldham declared its ambition to become a Co-operative Council, which it describes as “one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough and create a confident and ambitious place...Put simply, becoming a co-operative borough is about everybody doing their bit and everybody benefitting.”
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