Private meeting decides future of Beal Valley tip

A DECISION on the future of the Beal Valley tip will be taken behind closed doors on Monday.

Councillors will have to vote on a number of issues and decisions about the land on the borders of Royton and Shaw.

But because it involves commercially sensitive information, the report to Oldham’s Cabinet will be in private.

Members will vote on whether to lease the Beal Valley site to P and C Casey, which has been contracted to use the land for tipping inert waste since the 1990s.

The council re-negotiated the deal with Casey’s, at a cost of £6.3 million, in 2000 in order to stop noxious waste being tipped there.

In 2004, the council voted for the land to be turned into a municipal golf course at the end of the tipping period, possibly by 2011.