News & Blog

Rising energy costs are making it difficult for people nationwide to cook nutritious meals. In response, The Crossley Centre with support from Great Places has secured funding from HUBBUB to deliver a new project in partnership with Cracking Good Food to provide slow cookers to people in need from The Crossley Centre in Oldham. Slow cookers […]

Innovation Chain North’s (ICN) pan-Northern construction framework valued at £1.5bn is now open for bids from consultant and contractor suppliers interested in delivering mixed-use housing and associated social infrastructure across the North of England. The latest procurement framework from ICN will run for four years (2024 – 2028) and suppliers will be able to secure […]

Our Chief Executive Matthew Harrison recently joined project partners and local councillors at an event to mark the start of work at Fitton Hill ‘Hartshead View’ which will deliver 365 new homes at the development in Oldham. Matt was joined by partners from Countryside Partnerships, Sigma, and Oldham Council to the site situated on the […]

Building on the previous success of our grants to organisations offering support to Great Places customers and the local community with the cost-of-living crisis, we are pleased to launch our Resilience Fund for 2023. £100k in grants will be available through this year’s Greater Together Foundation Resilience Fund. These will be distributed on a commissioning […]

Our joint venture, Forge New Homes has been granted planning permission for its fourth development in Sheffield City Region and completed the purchase of the site from Harworth Group plc. Its latest venture is at the heart of Harworth Group’s Olive Lane mixed-use development at Waverley, which aims to transform the area into a new […]

We continue to take our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments seriously, and our ESG Report for 2022/23 is now live. Published as part of our commitments to the Sustainability Reporting Standard for social housing providers, our latest annual update outlines how we’re doing as an organisation in relation to the standard’s 48 criteria, covering […]

Great Places has appointed Mike Gerrard as our new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) joining us in the new year. Mike is currently Chief Financial Officer at Onward Homes Limited and extensive experience in the not for profit and private sectors. Over the past 15 years he has held a number of senior finance roles in […]

Great Places Housing Group’s customers are among the thousands of customers set to benefit from government support to upgrade old, inefficient heat networks announced last week (Tuesday 26 September). The Housing Group’s heat network that serves 299 of its customers in the Richmond Park area of Sheffield, is one of the projects set to receive […]

Cornish Close customers to see additional £32k of improvement works Customers at Great Places’ Cornish Close scheme in Manchester are benefiting from an additional £32k worth of improvement works that will help make the scheme more accessible and allow vulnerable customers to remain in their homes for longer. The scheme is owned by Great Places […]