News & Blog

Great Places has launched a public consultation on our proposals for a plan to create the UK’s first purpose-built and co-produced majority LGBTQ+ Extra Care housing scheme in Whalley Range, south Manchester. The development is planned for the site of the former Spire Hospital in Russell Road, Whalley Range, which was demolished in 2019 and […]

Councillor Graham Greenhalgh, the Mayor of Stockport, was the guest of honour at festive celebrations to mark the completion of a £1 million improvement works project at our Clifford Court development in Heaviley. Councillor Greenhalgh was joined by Councillor Colin McAllister, Cabinet Member for Housing, and local Ward Councillor, Helen Hibbert at the scheme of […]

The December update from our Money Matters Team.   Introducing Conversational Platform technology into Universal Credit (UC) telephone On 30 November the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) introduced a new technology called Conversational Platform onto the Department’s telephony channels, starting with Universal Credit. This will transform the customer journey by replacing traditional Interactive Voice […]

Great Places’ In Partnership (IPP) unit teamed up with home furnishing giant Dunelm to make Christmas a little brighter. IPP provides support and accommodation for women aged 16 – 55 who are homeless and who also need help with drug or alcohol issues in Blackburn and Olaiyah Yousaf, Housing and Wellbeing Manager, reached out to […]

Insight has completed their third scrutiny review of 2023, they looked to assess Great Places offer to support customers with the increasing costs of living. Members found customers who had received direct support from the Financial Resilience Team fed back positive comments saying the support had helped to manage finances and contact debtors. There were […]

In 2022 we asked customers what worked about the anti-social behaviour (ASB) service and what didn’t. Since then, we have been working really hard to put improvements in place to the ASB service to help improve the customer experience. We also have a new ASB Policy detailing our new commitments. You said, we listened – […]

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Hive Homes, a Joint Venture of which Great Places is a member, launched its latest development, the 102-home Weavers Fold off Nixon Street in Castleton, Rochdale.  The scheme turns the eight-acre former Carcraft car supermarket site, which had laid dormant for eight years, into a neighbourhood with 85 three-bedroom and 17 four-bedroom homes, a mix […]

Great Places Housing Group has cut the ribbon on 67 affordable homes at its £9.6million Heathfields development in Darwen. The homes, a mix of shared ownership and affordable rented properties, form part of a much larger, new neighbourhood being developed by East Lancashire-based McDermott Homes. The Miner’s Gate site, formerly the Ellison Fold Colliery, off […]