News & Blog

Great  Places and Greater Manchester and Rescue Service are sending a vital message: Smoke Alarm Testing and Escape Route Planning save lives

Cllr Tracy Kelly, Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member for Housing, Property and Regeneration at Salford City Council, joined us to view progress on the site at our new £3.8m development at Highfield Road in Little Hulton. Cllr Kelly and local councillors Cllr Teresa Pepper and Cllr Rob Sharpe joined our Chief Executive, Matthew Harrison […]

We’re delighted to have now launched Our Voice – our exciting new digital platform that will make it easier than ever to share your views with us! Our Voice is a place where customers and colleagues of Great Places Housing Group can come together to share ideas, participate in consultations and help shape the services […]

Work continues on a range of projects across our regions through our £22m major works programme.   In Stockport work continues on our Clifford Court scheme. From July 2022, our Sustainable Assets team has made great progress with the improvements promised to customers, and the ‘new and improved look’ is really starting to take shape. […]

Great Places Housing Group teams up with Manchester Histories to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Gateways to Oldham.

We take our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments very seriously and were an early adopter of an industry-led sustainability reporting standard designed to unlock institutional investment to help tackle the UK’s deepening housing crisis. As part of our commitment to the new standard, from 2021 we’ve committed to report against the standard annually. Our […]

You don’t need to do anything in your Universal Credit journal until after 3 April and when they send you a prompt. Have questions? Click here to get answers to your questions.

Some Great Places and Plumlife customers who are on a heat network and pay a service charge will receive a letter from us about the Energy Bill Relief Scheme shortly. This is a Government scheme introduced to provide financial support for energy bills. The scheme is giving financial relief to commercial gas buyers like us […]

Our Affordable Development Team has started work on a flagship development of 160 new affordable homes on Worrall Street in Salford. The site is located close to the Manchester Ship Canal and forms part of the Ordsall Waterfront regeneration corridor which stretches from Salford Quays to Regent Road. The site’s historic use was as a […]