News & Blog

Great Places recently hosted the MP for Stalybridge & Hyde and local councillors on a visit to its recently completed £2.5 million specialist housing development in Stalybridge. Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP, councillors and council officials joined our Chief Executive, Alison Dean and members of the project team on a tour of the development in […]

Great Places Housing Group has helped a Burnley social enterprise gain £180,000 in National Lottery funding to help people in two of the town’s most deprived wards. Enterprising Habits, based on Abel Street, will use the money to help 150 people who are either economically inactive, unemployed or people in low paid jobs over the […]

Introducing Multiply Adult Numeracy Programme, a ground-breaking initiative designed to improve numeracy skills across the UK.

Great Places helps Colne social enterprise create £343,000 community gym High Sherriff of Lancashire Helen Bingley OBE helped to officially open a new £343,000 community gym in Colne – thanks to a little help from Great Places. Elisha House, on Burnley Road in Colne, helps people with a history of substance misuse and features supported […]

Funding to look at improvements to the John Atkinson Court heat network Great Places has been fully funded to carry out an optimisation study to review the performance of its heat network at our independent living scheme at John Atkinson Court in Salford as part of the sixth round of funding awarded under the Government’s […]

In Partnership with InCommon we were delighted to run our first ever intergenerational workshop in Manchester last month as part of the Empower programme. Children from Prospect House Primary Specialist Support School visited their neighbours at our Extra Care scheme, The Byrons (just a one-minute walk away!). The children and residents will be meeting on […]

This International Day of Older People, we are celebrating the positive impact that our older customers have on our schemes and communities. Moving into an Independent Living scheme is just another chapter to help you live your life as freely as anyone else with a helping hand should you need it. Your front door is […]

Great Places and Citu launch shared ownership for low-carbon family homes at Kelham Island, Sheffield Great Places has partnered with Yorkshire based property developer Citu to deliver 16 new, zero-carbon homes for shared ownership in Kelham Central, located in Sheffield’s Kelham Island neighbourhood. The new homes, part funded by Homes England, are a mix of […]

Plans approved for UK’s ‘first of a kind’ majority LGBTQ+ Extra Care scheme Plans have been approved for the UK’s ‘first of a kind’ purpose-built majority LGBTQ+ Extra Care social rent housing scheme in Whalley Range, south Manchester. Our proposals for the site of the former Spire Hospital on Russell Road, Whalley Range were approved […]