Surgery details
Thursday 14 September 2023
7.30pm – 8.30pm
Councillors Hazel Gloster and Howard Sykes (Lib Dem)
Lifelong Learning Centre
High Street
Shaw
Oldham OL2 8TB
Thursday 21 September 2023
7.30pm – 8.30pm
Councillors Hazel Gloster and Howard Sykes (Lib Dem)
Lifelong Learning Centre
High Street
Shaw
Oldham OL2 8TB
If you have any queries or problems that need to be discussed with your Lib Dem Councillors, please contact:
Councillor Howard Sykes
T: 0161 770 4016
E: howard.sykes@oldham.gov.uk
W: http://howardsykes.mycouncillor.org.uk
Twitter: @Howard_Sykes
Facebook: /Councillor Howard Sykes
Contact information
Correspondence address:
Oldham Council
Room 338
Level 3, Civic Centre
West Street, Oldham
OL1 1UL
Bus. phone:
0161 770 4016
Email:
howard.sykes@oldham.gov.uk
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Cllr Howard
Sykes – ShawWard
My Ward priorities
Delivering a new Health Centre for
Shaw and Crompton
- Listening to residents
- Protecting Green Belt/spaces
- Public rights of Way
- Litter, fly-tipping, and dog
fouling
- Environmental improvements
- Local policing ASB/crime
- Bus and tram services
- Highways, footways, and speeding
traffic
Training completed
- Safeguarding Refresher
- ALDC/LGA Councillor weekend
- LGA training and briefings
- LGA Conference
- Diversity Workshop
- Supporting Residents with Cost of Living
- Community Engagement

Work in
thecommunity
This Annual Report gives an account of
some of my activities. I am proud to say along with my Shaw and
Crompton Liberal Democrat colleagues I have remained fiercely
dedicated to representing Shaw and Crompton Ward residents and we
have continued to champion them and their issues.
Listening to
residents:
- I keep up to date with residents’
concerns by offering regular face to face Ward Surgeries, door
knocking, walkabouts and community meetings.
- I keep communication open with residents
I am contactable.
- I reach out to the community and share
important information on Twitter, Facebook, and my Web
Site.
Some examples of my
work:
- I manage a range of issues on behalf of
residents such as, road repairs, housing repairs, rehousing
requests, public rights of way, school applications, healthcare
complaints, council bins and rubbish removal, dog waste and street
litter, and grit bins.
- I work closely with our local Police, the
District Partnership, Parish Council, voluntary sector, faith
groups, residents, and businesses of Shaw to resolve the problem of
anti-social behaviour.
- I continue to challenge the Places for
All framework that is going to force building on Green Belt and our
green spaces. We do need new homes but not at any price and not in
the numbers suggested which will result in the appalling loss of
our green spaces.
- I am a member of Greater Manchester
Transport Committee. It is a constant battle to maintain key bus
services for residents and to make to make our trams safer by the
introduction of conductors.
- I formally object to planning
applications if I believe they are inappropriate or not a benefit
to residents.
- I work constructively with developers who
wish to build new homes in Shaw. However, such building projects
require infrastructure improvements for them to work for example,
new schools, better highways, and more health provision. Achieving
these provisions is an ongoing battle for myself and my
colleagues.
- My colleagues and I were instrumental in
achieving a new Health Centre for Shaw and Crompton. Construction
starts in 2023.
- I continue to request regular vehicle
speed monitoring on roads such as Buckstones Road, Crompton Way, Hillside Avenue and
elsewhere.
- I work with the Highways Department and
regularly request to have the potholes, blocked grids and poor
footpaths resurfaced or repaired. Many of our roads urgently need
repairs and resurfacing and I will continue to push for
them.
- I regularly pursue complaints of fly
tipping around Shaw, and I work very closely with the Environmental
Health Department on this matter.
- I continue to work with residents and a
variety of agencies for a resolution to on-going flooding problems,
primarily in the areas of Dunwood Park,
Woodend, Smallbrook Road, Grains Road,
Grains Bar and Jubilee. Much needed improvements by the Environment
Agency to Pencil Brook at Duchess Street and near the Park should help.
- As Chair of the Crompton Moor Users Group
and in my role as Ward Councillor, I
meet regularly with the group, working closely for this area of
countryside that within our community remains very important. I
continue to ensure that this area is maintained and safe to use by
all.
- I am a Governor at St Joseph’s
school and as a parent myself I strive for our children’s
right to receive an education appropriate to their
needs.
- I am Chair of the A V Davies Charity
which works to help those in need and financial difficulty in
specifically in Shaw and Crompton.
- I am a member of the LGA Councillors
Forum, the LGA Audit Committee, LGA General Assembly and a Board
member of Local Partnerships.
- I am a member of Groundwork GM and Vice
Chair of its Audit Committee.
- On Oldham Council I serve on the Health
& Wellbeing Board, Selection Committee, Appointments Committee,
Clayton Playing Fields, and Full Council. I also serve on Corporate
Safeguarding, Group Leaders, Mayor’s briefings, Community
Safety and Cohesion Board, Oldham Distress Fund, Oldham Leadership
Board and Oldham Property Partnership.
Surgeries
Shaw and Crompton Advice
Surgeries (no
appointment necessary) held on
Thursdays –
7:30pm to 8:30pm.
Lifelong Learning Centre, High
Street, Shaw,
Oldham OL2 8TB
January: 5, 12, 19, 26
February: 2, 9, 16, 23
March: 2, 9, 16, 23,
30
Dates beyond the above have yet
to be agreed by the Council
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Contact me:-
E:
howard.sykes@oldham.gov.uk
T: 0161 7704016
Team
Oldham Helpline: 0161 770 7007
Website: http://howardsykes.mycouncillor.org.uk
Twitter: @Howard_Sykes
Facebook: @Councillor.Howard.Sykes

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