News & Blog

Savills Financial Consultants has helped Great Places secure three new deals worth a total of £284m with Santander, NatWest, and ABN Amro. Funding of £109m and £100m has been agreed with existing lenders Santander and NatWest Bank, respectively. New partner ABN AMRO has lent 25,000-home Great Places £75m. All loans are revolving credit facilities (RCFs). […]

Salford City Council has approved our plans for 71 new affordable homes in Little Hulton. The new homes will be delivered as part of our ongoing partnership with Stonebond. The homes will be offered for shared ownership and affordable rent tenures and built to M4(2) accessibility standards, making them accessible to a range of future […]

Knutsford’s young people are being given the chance to help shape future youth services in the town by taking part in a survey being organised by Great Places. In response to customers’ feedback on youth services in the area Great Places, in collaboration with Knutsford Town Council and Cheshire East Youth Service, is running a […]

In the next few months we will be writing our new Customer Experience Strategy. This is the document that sets out how we will make sure that we put our customers first, and ensure that we listen to and hear the voice of customers. This is central to our aim of delivering excellent services that […]

Athelstan Primary School is a big part of our key neighbourhood of Richmond Park, Sheffield, educating many of our customers’ children aged 4-11. Recently, we’ve provided the school £4,000 as part of our Community Resilience Fund, which has been used to purchase iPads for pupils who do not have the same access to online learning […]

Did you know your rent is changing from Monday 1 April?  You don’t need to fill out a change of circumstances – this will over complicate things.  Universal Credit will prompt you via your journal after Monday 1 April so that you can advise them of your new rent and service charge.  This is the […]

Cllr Tom Hunt, Leader of Sheffield Council and Chief Executive Kate Josephs recently joined us on a visit to view progress on our £8.2m development of 51 new affordable homes at London Road close to Sheffield city centre. Delivered in partnership with Beluga Group Ltd, the site occupies a prominent location in Sheffield city centre. […]

Leader of Manchester City Council, Cllr Bev Craig joined us at an event to mark the official opening of our affordable housing development at the newly renovated Ancoats Dispensary building close to Manchester city centre. Cllr Craig was joined by guests including Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central, Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s Executive […]

Great Places plans approved for 148 affordable apartments in Stockport’s regeneration district Our plans to build 148 high-quality affordable homes in the Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) Town Centre West regeneration area have been approved. The proposals for the £35 million development on Chestergate will be Great Places’ second site in Stockport’s regeneration area in […]