News & Blog

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 […]

New exhibition celebrates 10th anniversary of Gateways to Oldham PFI initiative The Mayor of Oldham, Councillor Zahid Chauhan, was one of the guests to attend an event hosted by Great Places and award-winning local history charity Manchester Histories at Gallery Oldham on 16 September to mark the launch of an exhibition to commemorate the tenth […]

Our dedicated Money Advice Team is on hand to provide a range of support and advice for customers who may be struggling with the rising cost of living, trying to navigate what benefits they may be entitled to, or just needing general budgeting advice. Cara Chisholm from the Team shares some of the recent stories […]

Regrettably, the planned merger between Great Places and MSV is no longer going ahead and the two organisations have ended discussions about coming together to form a new business. Matt Harrison will stay on as Chief Executive of Great Places, and Charlie Norman will remain at MSV. The joint statement from Tony Davison, Chair of […]

As part of our Greater Together Resilience Foundation Fund, we've supported St. Vincent's Furniture Store in Sheffield to meet their rising demand with a £6,000 grant.

Manchester-based developer, McCauls, has completed the transformation of the Grade II-listed Armitage Showroom at 32-34 Laystall Street, located just off Great Ancoats Street, into 5,000 sq ft of into high quality office space. The Armitage Showroom is the first completed project for the site with two other phases to come at Laystall Street. This includes […]

The Assets Team has continued to be hard to deliver a range of improvement projects across our regions as part of our ongoing major works programme. Works to our Clifford Court development in Stockport are now complete. The £1 million 12-month programme at the scheme has included significant improvements to the scheme of 87 flats […]