Great Places

  • Manchester
Region served
North West England, Yorkshire
Budget
£68.5 million[1]
Staff
629Websitewww.greatplaces.org.uk

Great Places is a housing association in the United Kingdom, formerly the Manchester Methodist Housing Association. Great Places provides 19,000+ homes mostly in North West England.[2] The organisation is an industrial and provident society headquartered in Manchester.

In 2020, Equity Housing Group merged into Great Places. The combined organisation has 24,000 homes.[3]

Pakistani Billionaire Sir Anwar Pervez is the largest private donor to this social housing group.[4]

Its developments include:

  • Islington Square in east Manchester.[5] This was designed by the architects Fashion Architecture Taste, who in 2014 were described as "fondly remember[ing the development] as the archetypal regeneration project of the Blair years".[6]
  • Park Hill, Sheffield.[7]

In 2008, it managed a pilot home zone in Northmoor, Manchester.[8]

References

  1. ^ http://www.greatplaces.org.uk/Publication/Great%20Places%20annual%20report%202011%20for%20email%20and%20web.pdf [dead link]
  2. ^ http://www.greatplaces.org.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Great%20Places%20Housing%20Group%20-%20map%20of%20where%20we%20work.pdf [dead link]
  3. ^ Place North West https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/great-places-completes-merger-despite-far-from-ideal-circumstances/
  4. ^ "Top 50 political donors who bankrolled the UK election 2019".
  5. ^ Rose, Steve (17 April 2006). "Give us a frill". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  6. ^ Fearn, Hannah (4 February 2014). "'The race to build new homes drives down quality', says leading architect". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  7. ^ Cooke, Rachel (23 November 2008). "How I learnt to love the streets in the sky". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  8. ^ Ward, David (1 August 2001). "Pioneering 'home zone' transforms neighbourhood". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2023.


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