Almost 100 new affordable homes in a 'vital location' have been completed in Oldham.

Construction has finished on a £21m project by First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO), which has brought 88 new houses and apartments to a new neighbourhood named 'West Vale'.

The development, by Caddick Construction, is at the 'gateway' of Oldham town centre, on a pocket of land off West Street.

There are 26 two, three and four bedroom houses for shared ownership and 62 one and two bedroom apartments for affordable rent, though some of the new pads are already occupied.

Visible from the tram between Freehold and Westwood, the houses have an eye-catching design with three alternating brick colours, shared green areas and a small number of parking spaces. The new seven-storey apartment block echoes the design

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