News & Blog

Great Places has teamed up with a Football League club to help people live a healthier lifestyle. The FIT Blackpool Programme is a weight management initiative which helps educate people around improving fitness levels, nutrition and general wellbeing, being run by Blackpool FC. The programme, which will run in different cohorts across 2025, runs separate […]

Great Places Housing Group hosted Stockport MP, Navendu Mishra, on a visit to a specialist housing scheme and recent affordable housing developments in his constituency. Mr Mishra was joined by Great Places’ Chief Executive Alison Dean, Executive Director of Growth Helen Spencer, and representatives from Homes England’s Affordable Housing Delivery team. The first part of […]

Energy prices are set to rise 6% on April 1st with many households facing higher energy bills. The price cap, which sets the maximum rate that energy suppliers can charge for each unit of energy and daily standing charges, will increase, bringing the annual cost for a typical household to £1,849. For the majority of […]

Insight recently started a scrutiny review to test what it’s like if a customer has to report anti-social behaviour to Great Places. The group are gathering evidence to understand more about this service, and shortly plan to contact customers to ask about their experiences. Customer feedback is crucial to the success of scrutiny reviews, it’s […]

On Friday (14 March), we hosted a Greater Manchester Housing Partnership customer voice session at our Head Office with customers from across the region. The GMHP customer voice group is made up of 24 housing organisations from across the city who work together to share knowledge and good practice for the benefit of our customers […]

Alongside our partners, Sigma, Countryside and Vistry, we were delighted to welcome Jim McMahon (MP for Oldham and Minister of State for Housing Communities and Local Government), to Hartshead View in Fitton Hill, Oldham. Mr McMahon met with project partners and a new resident to learn more about the development. The project is delivering 365 […]

The Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS), also known as the Dynamic Teleswitch Service (DTS) is reaching the end of its operational life and will be switching off nationally in June.

Salford City Council’s Deputy Mayor and Lead Member for Housing and Anti-Poverty, Councillor Tracy Kelly has joined us at an event to mark the completion of our new development in Worsley. The £4.3 million scheme is made up of a mix of two and three-bed homes for shared ownership along with a neighbouring supported housing […]

Great Places was one of the exhibitors at a huge Blackpool jobs fair, organised by the local MP. Blackpool South MP Craig Webb was joined by Employment Minister Alison McGovern to welcome more than 4,000 people through the doors at the Winter Gardens. We were one of more than 100 employers and voluntary organisations to […]