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Forge New Homes, our partnership with four other housing associations, has secured planning permission for its third development in Beckingham. The venture is set to invest £13m into 57 bungalows on a seven-acre site off Station Road, west of Gainsborough. The development, located in rural Lincolnshire, will comprise a mixture of dormer, detached, and semi-detached […]

Great Places Housing Association has been successfully appointed onto the Homes England Delivery Partner Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) (Large and Small Sites). Great Places’ Affordable Development Programme has been added onto the DPS, a primary route for Homes England’s land disposal which offers housing providers the exclusive opportunity to bid for Homes England sites. The […]

Legal service providers interested in providing sector specific support for North West housing providers, can now tender to be part of Great Places Housing Group’s legal services framework. The four-year framework will look to provide specialist legal advice to Great Places Housing Group. The framework is also available to other North West social housing providers […]

Great Places joined partners Countryside and Councillor Gavin White, Executive Member for Housing and Development at Manchester City Council last week (Thursday 10 November) to celebrate 130 much needed affordable homes and the opening of show homes at Belle Vue Place. Built on the former greyhound and speedway tracks, Belle Vue Place forms part of […]

The Sustainable Assets Team continues to make steady progress in delivering our Improvement Works Programme for 2022, including work at our supported housing scheme at Mill View in Oldham. Managed by Oldham Council, Mill Hill has eight individual flats and two bungalows providing supported housing for customers with learning difficulties, with a main building that […]

Great Places Housing Group has commissioned a documentary on knife crime created by young people from Salford

From mid-November 2022, Great Places are carrying out our new customer satisfaction survey. If you are contacted, please share your views.

Great Places, working with Salford based builder Watson Homes, has submitted plans to build 97 affordable homes on Green Street, Radcliffe. The planned development will form part of the latest ambitious masterplan for Radcliffe. A total of 132 new homes will be created with a proposed mix of one and two-bedroomed apartments, which are designed […]

Great Places hosted Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves on a tour of its New Islington and Ancoats developments, as part of her recent visit to the region to hear about Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s (GMCA’s) commitment to build 30,000 zero-carbon social rented homes by 2038. Great Places’ Chief Executive Matthew Harrison and Executive Director of Growth, […]