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Planning has been approved on our joint venture Forge New Homes’ first site in Pilsley. The group, a partnership between five Sheffield housing providers, formed in September last year, has had approval to move forward with plans for a 98 home development in Pilsley, North East Derbyshire The development, close to Clay Cross and Chesterfield, […]

Eight modular housing suppliers have been successfully appointed to a new Dynamic Purchasing System offered as part of Great Places Housing Group’s £750m Innovation Chain North (ICN) procurement framework. A total of eight firms were successful in the first wave of appointments. The successful suppliers selected are Ilke Homes ltd, Adston, Cygnum Timber Frame Ltd, […]

The Great Places Community Investment Team has risen to the challenge of the COVID pandemic and has been supporting customers with their employment needs. Since the beginning of the Pandemic, Great Places has helped almost 400 households into work, training and volunteering which includes more than 80 people securing jobs. The good work carries on […]

Recognising the increased financial pressure the COVID-19 pandemic was going to bring to communities, early in the first lockdown Great Places developed an enhanced partnership with National Energy Action, a national charity who work to ensure that everyone in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is warm and safe at home. National Energy Action website Customers […]

Great Places has secured three years of European Social Fund grant from the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) to build on the success of our existing MPT (More Positive Together) service in Lancashire. The service is delivered across Lancashire as part of a consortium of 14 Registered Providers and other services – Great Places […]

Alcohol Awareness Week is a chance for the UK to get thinking about drinking. It’s a week of awareness-raising, campaigning for change, and more. The week runs from 16-22 November and the theme this year is ‘Alcohol and mental health’. The week will promote discussion on the link between alcohol and mental health and the […]

Raymond Kinsella, our Head of Neighbourhoods for the Sheffield region, recently joined Cabinet Member for Housing, Councillor Dominic Beck and partners on site to celebrate the official start of work on a £28m affordable housing development in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The partnership led by energy and regeneration specialist ENGIE will transform two brownfield sites at […]

The plans to transform a derelict site close to Blackburn town centre into a much-needed new housing development of 16, two and three bed affordable homes for local families are now underway with the arrival of the first modular homes on site. The former Laneside care home site on Shorrock Lane had been left empty […]

Four new partners have been appointed to the Greater Manchester Housing First pilot – for which Great Places is the accountable body – following an exhaustive selection process. In designing the pilot, there was always an intention to add new partners, in order to be able to facilitate responsive commissioning to emerging cohort needs and […]