News & Blog

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 […]

Great Places is set to invest £4.6million in a new 28-home development in Lytham St Annes after purchasing the site following the collapse of the previous developers in 2019. The Heyhouses site, just off Bowden Lane, was included in a previous outline and reserved matters planning application in 2013 for 162 homes, a retail unit, […]

A year like no other As the year draws to a close, 2020 has without doubt been a year like no other. The Coronavirus pandemic has affected everyone and changed the way we live our day to day lives, however despite the challenges, there has been some fantastic progress made this year that has made […]

As part of an improved service offer, Great Places has looked at the way that it speaks to its customers to improve both digital and printed magazines. The brand new digital magazines are now ready to read online and can be easily accessed on computers, smartphones and tablets. The magazines show the work we are doing in […]

The Social Impact Bond (SIB) a three-year project Great Places has partnered in to tackle homelessness in Greater Manchester ends this month and has exceeded all expectations thanks to its new and innovative approach to tackling the issue of entrenched rough sleeping. Led by GM Homes Partnership and working with the support of the Greater […]

Great Places social value programme has helped to make the lives of those on the Greater Manchester Housing First a little easier. Organisations who carry out services for Great Places agree to deliver a social value investment to our tenants through our service networks. And these have been of massive benefit to Greater Manchester Housing […]

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*. […]