News & Blog

We know how important your home is to you. It should feel safe, comfortable and well looked after—and if something goes wrong, you need it putting right. Recently, you may have seen adverts from companies encouraging people to make housing disrepair claims. While everyone has the right to seek independent advice, we want to reassure […]

Great Places and Keepmoat have started work on site for 120 new affordable homes at Midland Road in Rotherham. The development will transform a brownfield site formerly used as a bus depot into a high‑quality new residential neighbourhood, delivering much‑needed homes for social rent and supporting the regeneration of the area. Great Places is investing […]

This fund will support vital projects like House to Home and Household Assistance in Northmoor.

Our Community Investment Team are committed to building healthy communities in our neighbourhoods. This has seen a real shake up in Richmond Park, with Healthwatch Sheffield consulting with local residents to find out what provisions they’d most like to see, as well as hosting drop-in wellbeing events. One key theme that kept coming up was […]

The Bread and Butter Thing has relocated to The Welcome Café in Knutsford, bringing its service to even more local families.

Work is set to begin on a new development of 65 affordable homes in Wigan, as Great Places and Stonebond move forward with plans for the Christopher Street site. Following planning approval, Great Places and Stonebond are preparing to start on site in the coming weeks, bringing a long-vacant brownfield site back into use. Located […]

Great Places has partnered with Oldham College students to transform communal spaces at Oak and Beech House, key worker accommodation located within the grounds of The Royal Oldham Hospital. Oak and Beech House provide 52 single rooms with shared lounges, kitchens and bathrooms, offering temporary accommodation for NHS staff, including doctors and nurses from overseas. […]

Great Places has secured national funding to carry out a fully funded optimisation study of the heat network at Fernbank House in Blackburn. The funding comes from the Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES), which has awarded £15.6 million across England and Wales to improve heating and hot water systems for more than 10,400 residents. At […]

We have recently delivered two successful working from home courses, designed to support customers who are interested in exploring remote employment opportunities. The sessions took place at our Oldham Office, with six customers attending the first session. A second session followed, with a further seven customers in attendance. Each workshop ran for three hours and […]