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Topping out ceremony at Hatters Yard in Stockport

20/07/2026

Topping out at the Hatters Yard development

Partners including the Leader of Stockport Council recently came together to celebrate a key milestone at Hatters Yard, our landmark £41 million affordable housing development in Stockport town centre.

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Homeswapper logo

20/07/2026

Homeswapper service gets a relaunch

Great Places customers can soon access the newly updated Homeswapper service, making it easier to find and arrange a mutual exchange with another social housing tenant anywhere in the UK.

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Check list building safety

20/07/2026

Keeping you informed about home safety checks

We’re improving how we let you know about important safety checks and servicing in your home or building. These checks help us keep you safe. We want to make sure you know what’s happening, why it matters and when to expect us. What’s changing? You’ll start to receive clearer and more timely updates about work […]

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Mural at Coalbrook

08/07/2026

Residents shape new mural at Coalbrook Court

A new mural designed with input from local people has been installed at our Coalbrook Court development in Beswick, helping to brighten the view for households living next to the Grey Mare Lane regeneration project while work continues on site. Great Places and construction partner Caddick Construction worked with neighbours and Manchester-based artist Yasaman Mollasalehi […]

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Two people sat in a garden

01/07/2026

Winnipeg’s garden is blooming again

A Blackpool community garden is blooming thanks to some green-fingered customers and a little help from Great Places.

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Victoria, IPP customer and Floating Support Worker, Jake.

01/07/2026

Victoria and Jasper are ready for a new tomorrow

When Victoria lost her partner, her life spiralled out of control. But when she entered Blackburn's InPartnership Project (IPP), a couple of years ago, things began to change.

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26/06/2026

Putting the community into the hub

Six months into the Pat Midgley Community Hub Foundation running as an independent organisation, it's thriving under local management.

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Communal area

24/06/2026

Customers welcome refreshed communal spaces

Customers at Meadow Heights in Ramsbottom, Bury, are enjoying newly refreshed communal areas following a five-week programme of improvement works to internal hallways and shared spaces across two leasehold-managed blocks.  The scheme, which covers 15 homes, included internal decoration and replacement flooring, delivered as part of Plumlife Management’s lease obligation to carry out communal cyclical […]

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17/06/2026

Always an Alternative – the Wybourn Youth Bus

Our Employability Programme, Wybourn Works, has funded the mobile youth club, 'Always an Alternative' to set up each week in Wybourn.

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