News & Blog

On Saturday 26 August as part of HouseProud North West and Rainbow Roofs, Great Places participated in Manchester Pride! Our float was decorated in line with our spin on this year’s theme ‘Queerly Beloved’ – with Bee balloons and letters carried by our walkers spelling ‘Bee Proud, Bee Loved, Bee Home’ to reflect the Manchester […]

The community centre in Sheffield was once a thriving building, but became unused over the pandemic. Over the past year, we've revitalised the place, and hosted a Family Fun Day to celebrate its reopening and found out more about what's on at the centre.

Building contractors, construction services consultants and clients working in new build housing in the North of England can find out more about the soon to be issued tender for the renewal of our Innovation Chain North (ICN) framework at an event on Wednesday 13 September (10.00 – 11.30am; arrivals from 09.30am). The framework tender will […]

Andy Bonnington, who recently joined us as our new Director of Sustainable Assets provides an update on last year’s programme in terms of achievements and highlights and looks to what will be the key priorities in the year ahead. 2022 was an eventful year in the world of social housing assets and investment programmes, leading […]

Customers from across Lancashire have been sharing gardening tips around communal food growing. A group of customers from Bowland House in Blackburn travelled to Thorncross in Fleetwood where they met another Great Places customer who is running a similar project. Aateeka Bashir, Community Partnership Manager, said: We had a really good session with some peer-to-peer […]

Great Places is urging customers to be aware of the potential dangers posed by lithium-ion batteries in e-bikes and e-scooters, following a rise in the number of related incidents in Greater Manchester.

Rents are changing in 2023 and for most of our customers will go up by 7%. Here are 5 things you may not know about what your rent pays for.

Work has started on our £3.2 million new build specialist supported living development in Stalybridge. Our specialist development on Grosvenor Street, will provide 17 self-contained apartments with 24 hour on-site care commissioned by the Tameside Adult Social Care Team. The plans will provide much-needed homes for adults within the local community needing health and wellbeing […]

Maximising customer benefits from start to finish A central tenet to the new Wybourn Community Centre is that the local community have a sense of ownership in it, that the Centre will not just provide much needed services but that it will be a fulcrum for enhanced community pride and a belief that the local […]