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Great Places Affordable Development and Environmental Teams are celebrating being shortlisted for the prestigious Inside Housing Development Awards. Our Affordable Development team’s work with ENGIE, Rotherham Council, Sanctuary Homes and Wise Living on £28m redevelopment of a brownfield site at Whinney Hill and Chesterhill Avenue, in the Thrybergh area has been shortlisted for a best […]

THE £3.4million Bowland House refurbishment project in Blackburn will transform lives in more ways than one. For Great Places tenant Nicola Campbell, it’s been a step on to the employment ladder thanks to the More Positive Together project. Nicola, 50, a mum-of-four, signed up to MPT project to help her find a job that she […]

1 April marks the first anniversary of our new business following the merger between Great Places and Equity Housing Groups on 1 April 2020. One year on we’re continuing to deliver on our vision of Great Homes, Great Communities, Great People as a bigger and stronger organisation. We are still vision-driven and values-led. Our new Corporate Plan is […]

Longsight’s iconic Co-op Building has recently had a £300 thousand update as part of Great Places Housing Group’s annual investment works programme. Originally home to the Beswick branch of the co-operative movement the building, it now houses 19 flats, 3 retail outlets and Northmoor Community Association’s (NCA) Community Centre which offers a wide range of […]

The Mayor of Salford Paul Dennett joined Great Places Housing Group and contractors Seddon on a visit to the recently completed Foxwood development in Salford, which looks to address the need for additional affordable housing in the city. The Mayor along with the Deputy Mayor and Lead Member for Housing & Neighbourhoods Cllr Tracy Kelly, […]

Work has begun on Great Places' £3.4million refurbishment project at Bowland House in Blackburn.

Plans are underway for Great Places to pay tribute to local councillor Pat Midgley, who sadly passed away in March last year, by naming a new community centre in the Wybourn neighbourhood in Sheffield in her honour. It is hoped that the £2.5 million centre on Manor Oaks Road, Wybourn will become a fitting tribute to the local […]

The last year has been a year like no other as the whole of the world has battled a pandemic. Although this has been a time of great sadness and uncertainty, it has also shown us so many good things such as the kindness from individuals, at times to complete strangers. There have been many […]

If you receive Universal Credit, you will need to update your online journal with your new rent after 5 April 2021– please do this only after you receive a prompt from DWP. If you do this before this date then you will need to resubmit it again. Rents will generally go up by 1.5% from April […]