News & Blog

Since our merger took place on 1 April with Equity Housing Group, we have been working to bring the two customer scrutiny groups from the legacy organisations together under the “˜Insight’ banner and we’re pleased to say this has now been achieved. The “˜Insight‘ group provides a real opportunity for customers to help shape our […]

Hive Homes, our partnership with 9 other housing associations and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), has exchanged contracts with Homes England on its second site – the former CarCraft site on Nixon Street in Rochdale. The site had been vacant for 8 years before Homes England acquired it. Hive’s proposed new development would provide […]

Great Places has joined forces with a group of housing associations in the North to form an alliance with the ambition of delivering 9,000 offsite homes per year. The newly launched Offsite Homes Alliance (OSHA) consists of 18 housing providers including Great Places, which have agreed to work together with offsite suppliers to increase the […]

Great Places is set to build 130 affordable homes in conjunction with developers Countryside on the former Belle Vue Greyhound Stadium in East Manchester. The building work follows planning permission being issued in November 2020 for the creation of 80 apartments and 167 houses, which includes 130 affordable homes through Great Places Housing Group. The […]

It’s our responsibility as landlord to insure the structure of your home but this does not include what’s inside, like your furniture and personal possessions. As a customer of Great Places you are eligible for a home contents insurance scheme, created just for Great Places starting from just £2.99 a fortnight for £9,000 Standard cover*. […]

Great Places has appointed eight companies to its approved panel of consultants to deliver valuations and market analysis advice. The partners will support Great Places ambitious development and sales programmes through the supply of market analysis reports and valuations of land and property. The successful companies include Aspin and Company Chartered Surveyors and Thomson Associates […]

Here at Great Places, we are committed to supporting our customers and communities and we recognise that the recent COVID-19 pandemic has had a detrimental impact across some of our neighbourhoods. Earlier this year we launched our Community Resilience Fund, aimed at providing the much needed financial support to charities, community groups and social enterprises […]

Great Places is continuing to transform the streetscape of Blackburn’s Mill Hill area by investing an additional £6million in another housing development. The social landlord will build 42 new homes, all for affordable rent, on a brownfield site on the junction of New Wellington Street and Queens Terrace. This new scheme will add to Great […]

Our social value programme is helping to improve lives across our communities thanks to the organisations we work with. When we tender our various workstreams, we place significant emphasis on social value, whilst maintaining value for money and quality. This has had a positive impact across all our services, creating opportunities in our communities and […]