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In the next few months we will be writing our new Customer Experience Strategy. This is the document that sets out how we will make sure that we put our customers first, and ensure that we listen to and hear the voice of customers. This is central to our aim of delivering excellent services that […]

Athelstan Primary School is a big part of our key neighbourhood of Richmond Park, Sheffield, educating many of our customers’ children aged 4-11. Recently, we’ve provided the school £4,000 as part of our Community Resilience Fund, which has been used to purchase iPads for pupils who do not have the same access to online learning […]

Did you know your rent is changing from Monday 1 April?  You don’t need to fill out a change of circumstances – this will over complicate things.  Universal Credit will prompt you via your journal after Monday 1 April so that you can advise them of your new rent and service charge.  This is the […]

Cllr Tom Hunt, Leader of Sheffield Council and Chief Executive Kate Josephs recently joined us on a visit to view progress on our £8.2m development of 51 new affordable homes at London Road close to Sheffield city centre. Delivered in partnership with Beluga Group Ltd, the site occupies a prominent location in Sheffield city centre. […]

Leader of Manchester City Council, Cllr Bev Craig joined us at an event to mark the official opening of our affordable housing development at the newly renovated Ancoats Dispensary building close to Manchester city centre. Cllr Craig was joined by guests including Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central, Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s Executive […]

Our plans to build 148 high-quality affordable homes in the Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) Town Centre West regeneration area have been approved. The proposals for the £35 million development on Chestergate will be Great Places’ second site in Stockport’s regeneration area in addition to its neighbouring King Street West development which started on site […]

Customer scrutiny group, Insight, has looked at how we manage and maintain estates and neighbourhoods. Findings will be revealed in May.

Cllr Colin Macalister, Stockport Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing, recently joined us on a visit to our affordable development at King Street West. Cllr Macallister accompanied by Paul Richards, Chief Executive, Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) were joined by Matthew Harrison, Chief Executive of Great Places, and members of the project team on a tour […]

Over the past few months, we have been gathering information about Northmoor, its residents and their needs. These are the results so far.