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Universal Credit is a welfare benefit to help people with living costs. It must be claimed online and you will be responsible for managing your claim in your Universal Credit journal. Help to Claim can support you in the early stages of your Universal Credit claim, from the application through to your first payment. Help […]

Insight customer scrutiny group has just finished their review looking at how communal space in and around neighbourhoods and blocks of flats are managed to ensure these are places people wish to live. What Insight heard from customers is that it is important these spaces are maintained, kept clean, safe, and free from hazards or […]

Savills Financial Consultants has helped Great Places secure three new deals worth a total of £284m with Santander, NatWest, and ABN Amro. Funding of £109m and £100m has been agreed with existing lenders Santander and NatWest Bank, respectively. New partner ABN AMRO has lent 25,000-home Great Places £75m. All loans are revolving credit facilities (RCFs). […]

Salford City Council has approved our plans for 71 new affordable homes in Little Hulton. The new homes will be delivered as part of our ongoing partnership with Stonebond. The homes will be offered for shared ownership and affordable rent tenures and built to M4(2) accessibility standards, making them accessible to a range of future […]

Knutsford’s young people are being given the chance to help shape future youth services in the town by taking part in a survey being organised by Great Places. In response to customers’ feedback on youth services in the area Great Places, in collaboration with Knutsford Town Council and Cheshire East Youth Service, is running a […]

In the next few months we will be writing our new Customer Experience Strategy. This is the document that sets out how we will make sure that we put our customers first, and ensure that we listen to and hear the voice of customers. This is central to our aim of delivering excellent services that […]

Athelstan Primary School is a big part of our key neighbourhood of Richmond Park, Sheffield, educating many of our customers’ children aged 4-11. Recently, we’ve provided the school £4,000 as part of our Community Resilience Fund, which has been used to purchase iPads for pupils who do not have the same access to online learning […]

Did you know your rent is changing from Monday 1 April?  You don’t need to fill out a change of circumstances – this will overcomplicate things.  Universal Credit will prompt you via your journal after Monday 1 April so that you can advise them of your new rent and service charge.  This is the only […]

Cllr Tom Hunt, Leader of Sheffield Council and Chief Executive Kate Josephs recently joined us on a visit to view progress on our £8.2m development of 51 new affordable homes at London Road close to Sheffield city centre. Delivered in partnership with Beluga Group Ltd, the site occupies a prominent location in Sheffield city centre. […]