Neighbourhoods

Creating cleaner, greener spaces

3 things you can do today

Re-route one journey. Pick a car journey you take regularly and try walking, cycling or taking public transport instead.
Meet your neighbours. Discover something good going on near you and get involved. You'll share your skills, meet someone new and help create stronger a community. This is a good place to start.
Plant something. Trees and plants are great for making our neighbourhoods more inviting, and they clean the air too. Silver birch trees are particularly good for reducing pollution levels. NASA did a study into great ways to clean the air and revealed English ivy, philodendrons, spider plants and golden pothos are great options for growing at home.

Go a bit further - run your own campaign.

Join #LoveWhereYouLive Oldham

Fly-tipping is a big issue in Oldham, costing the council a whopping £1 million per year to clean up.

#LoveWhereYouLive is a project to tackle fly-tipping by creating cleaner, greener communal spaces around the town. Here are some ways that you can get involved:

1) Visit the alleyway transformation exhibition

Join us for a pop-up exhibition showcasing the transformed alleyways and free events. Come along to see what your neighbours have been up to and how they've managed to transform wasted space into communal gardens for relaxing and playing. For timings and details click here.

2) Dispose of bulky items

responsbily
3) Transform your alley

If you’re feeling inspired to transform your alleyway then download our inspiration guide containing tips, advice and instructions to get you started.

To help you on your way we're also giving away the contents of the pop-up alleyway garden as well as support from Oldham Council. For a chance to win just send an email with the subject ‘ALLEY APPLICATION' to [email protected] by the 31st July 2018.

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Start: 7^th June, 2018 at 12:00am

End: 1^st July, 2018 at 12:00am

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