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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 […]

Great Places has joined a group of 70 banks, investors and housing providers that have become early adopters of an industry-led sustainability reporting standard

The Plumlife Sales team has achieved the Affordable Housing Provider of the Year award and received highly commended in the Best Off-Plan Development category for a mixed-tenure development in Salford

Great Places customer Bill Moss from Openshaw Court in Swinton, was one community member featured in a recent article in The Guardian about the UK’s first LGBTQ+ extra care housing scheme. The scheme will look to support older LGBTQ+ people whose loneliness has been exacerbated by the pandemic. In the article, Bill shares his honest […]

This week is National Customer Services Week. We’re highlighting the services that we provide to our customers to make life easier and help us improve. Find out more about our online customer portal, learn about Live Chat, how to join our Insight group and how to tune in to our Q&A session. Online customer portal […]

Great Places Housing Group is excited to announce that 13 community groups and charitable organisations* have been successful in their bid to take home a share of the £100,000 Resilience Fund. The fund, which was set up following the COVID-19 outbreak, will help the groups provide much-needed support to those customers who have been hit […]

On Monday we’ll be celebrating National Customer Services Week, themed around “˜Every experience counts’- and we’re inviting you to submit questions about our services. As part of National Customer Services Week (5-9 October), we’re giving our customers the opportunity to ask questions on a range of service-related issues ranging from accessing our services, to digital options to the […]