News & Blog

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, […]

Blackpool Council has approved Great Places Housing Association’s proposals to build an additional 67 affordable homes to complete the West site of the Council’s flagship Foxhall Village development located on Rigby Road. The plans to build a mix of 2, 3 and 4-bed homes were developed in consultation with Blackpool Council, working in partnership with […]

The works on Dickson Road have been completed. Our Investment Team has successfully finished the improvement plans on six flats of the building in Blackpool.

Picture caption: Katy Whitehead, James Tait, Helen Spencer, Mark Mellor, Rob Gaffney, Tony Clayton and Eleanor Ogilvie with Cllr Amanda Chadderton.   Leader of Oldham Council and local Councillor for Royton South, Amanda Chadderton, visited the first of the new two and three bedroomed houses at Vernon Gardens in Royton to officially mark the start […]

Electric Vehicle owners in Oldham can now take advantage of a new electric charging point at Crossley Community Centre on Denton Lane in Chadderton. Crossley Community Association, who manages the Crossley Community Centre on behalf of Oldham Council but is run on a day-to-day basis by Great Places Housing Group, has recently installed two electric […]

Cllr. Gavin White, Executive Member for Housing and Development at Manchester City Council joined Great Places Housing Group to mark the official start of work on Great Places’ latest £12.8m flagship affordable development scheme in New Islington. Cllr. White was joined by our Chief Executive Matthew Harrison, council officials and members of the project team […]

Today we’re officially launching our Annual Report for 2022. There is no doubt that the past year has presented challenges for the whole of society, as we are faced with an unpredictable and often volatile world. Despite the global difficulties we continue to face, Great Places has nevertheless seen some significant achievements in the last 12 months. […]