Council chiefs are NOT planning to build a third shopping centre in the town, a leading councillor has said. Coun Farooq Ahmed said proposals to regenerate the area around the current bus station were ...

The first meeting of the innovative Rochdale High Street Foundation on Wednesday night has inspired local businesses and stakeholders boroughwide to get behind the bid to become a Portas Pilot town.

Street artists from across the world have descended on Rochdale for a week-long mural festival. The Common Walls International Mural Festival will see renowned artists painting 10 new murals on ...

Digital Edition: Rochdale Council to re-tender £250m town centre scheme after EU ruling Rochdale Council has been forced to rip up its £250m agreement with Wilson Bowden for the redevelopment of ...

Ignite Fire Festival, which was staged for the first time in 2023, will again be transforming the square and gardens around ...

More than a decade ago, Rochdale was regarded as one of the only towns in Greater Manchester where McDonald’s couldn’t survive. A piece written in The Guardian in 2011 described how the only chain in ...

Rochdale Council has gone back to the market for a developer for its £250m town centre regeneration scheme, after an EU ruling made its earlier choice of Wilson Bowden untenable.