News & Blog

Our approach to “No Access” – enforcement What this means to you, our customer: Your health and safety is our priority. If we have arranged an appointment with a customer for an issue in their property, including where this puts them at risk and we cannot gain access (e.g. not being home when arranged, to let us in) […]

Our Sustainable Assets Team continues to be making steady progress through our annual improvement works plan. Work at Clifford Court in Stockport is progressing well and the project is being managed by K Hussain.  This is a scheme made up of 87 flats, spread across 10 blocks providing both sheltered and rented accommodation, thus K […]

Since May, Esh Construction have been working on a Great Places development to bring 20 new affordable homes to Sheffield. As part of their work, they’ve been getting involved to deliver Social Value in the local area. Following their call off from the ICN framework, Esh Construction pledged to create £121,000 of Social Value within […]

Great Places Housing Group and Clowes Developments have submitted plans for a development of 157 new homes to be built in Heald Green. The planning application to Stockport Council follows a public consultation on the scheme during the summer of 2022. The site, between Wilmslow Road and Stanley Green takes in a mix of previously […]

A cash injection of £20,000 from Sheffield Housing Company (SHC) - which is Sheffield City Council’s joint venture development company with private sector partners Keepmoat and Great Places Housing Group – has been given to Southey Owlerton Area Regeneration (SOAR) and Manor Castle Development Trust (MCDT).

Forge New Homes, our partnership with four other housing associations, has secured planning permission for its third development in Beckingham. The venture is set to invest £13m into 57 bungalows on a seven-acre site off Station Road, west of Gainsborough. The development, located in rural Lincolnshire, will comprise a mixture of dormer, detached, and semi-detached […]

Great Places Housing Association has been successfully appointed onto the Homes England Delivery Partner Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) (Large and Small Sites). Great Places’ Affordable Development Programme has been added onto the DPS, a primary route for Homes England’s land disposal which offers housing providers the exclusive opportunity to bid for Homes England sites. The […]

Legal service providers interested in providing sector specific support for North West housing providers, can now tender to be part of Great Places Housing Group’s legal services framework. The four-year framework will look to provide specialist legal advice to Great Places Housing Group. The framework is also available to other North West social housing providers […]

Great Places joined partners Countryside and Councillor Gavin White, Executive Member for Housing and Development at Manchester City Council last week (Thursday 10 November) to celebrate 130 much needed affordable homes and the opening of show homes at Belle Vue Place. Built on the former greyhound and speedway tracks, Belle Vue Place forms part of […]