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Work begins on £23.6m social housing development in Salford

|Date: 3 November, 2025

Work begins on £23.6m social housing development in Salford

Construction has officially started on a new £23.6m development at Pendleton House on Broughton Road, Sal ...

Construction has officially started on a new £23.6m development at Pendleton House on Broughton Road, Salford, which will deliver 88 high-quality homes for social rent. The scheme, developed by ForHou ...

3 November, 2025
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Great Places Hosts Stockport MP for tour of flagship affordable housing developments in Town Centre West

|Date: 11 September, 2025

Great Places Hosts Stockport MP for tour of flagship affordable housing developments in Town Centre West

Great Places Housing Group has hosted Navendu Mishra, MP for Stockport, on a tour of its two landmark hou ...

Great Places Housing Group has hosted Navendu Mishra, MP for Stockport, on a tour of its two landmark housing developments that will deliver 221 new affordable homes in the heart of Stockport’s Town C ...

11 September, 2025
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Green light for first Grey Mare Lane regeneration scheme

|Date: 6 August, 2025

Green light for first Grey Mare Lane regeneration scheme

Great Places’ proposals for the first scheme to be delivered as part of the masterplan for the Grey Mare ...

Great Places’ proposals for the first scheme to be delivered as part of the masterplan for the Grey Mare Lane neighbourhood in east Manchester were approved at Manchester City Council’s planning meeti ...

6 August, 2025
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Greater Manchester to pursue area-based retrofit success

|Date: 16 July, 2025

Greater Manchester to pursue area-based retrofit success

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) recently united with the National Home Decarbonisation Group ...

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) recently united with the National Home Decarbonisation Group (NHDG) and the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) to discuss how devolved funding can be use ...

16 July, 2025
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Greater Manchester signs new five-year collaboration agreement with Daikin

|Date: 9 July, 2025

Greater Manchester signs new five-year collaboration agreement with Daikin

On 17th June the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, signed a new collaboration agreement with Dai ...

On 17th June the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, signed a new collaboration agreement with Daikin to further the company’s work in the city-region, building on a long-term relationship to g ...

9 July, 2025
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Greater Manchester puts Housing First as Good Landlord Charter reaches half of all rented homes

|Date: 7 July, 2025

Greater Manchester puts Housing First as Good Landlord Charter reaches half of all rented homes

More than half of all rented homes in Greater Manchester are now covered by the UK’s first ever Good Land ...

More than half of all rented homes in Greater Manchester are now covered by the UK’s first ever Good Landlord Charter — a key pillar of the city-region's Housing First ambition to increase supply, dri ...

7 July, 2025
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ForHousing set to complete £3.5m development of 18 homes in Worsley

|Date: 12 June, 2025

ForHousing set to complete £3.5m development of 18 homes in Worsley

ForHousing is set to complete works on a new development at Mayfield Avenue, Walkden, delivering 18 homes ...

ForHousing is set to complete works on a new development at Mayfield Avenue, Walkden, delivering 18 homes in Worsley for social rent. The development consists of 12 one-bedroom apartments and six two- ...

12 June, 2025
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Homes in Oldham set to benefit from energy efficiency improvements

|Date: 1 May, 2024

Homes in Oldham set to benefit from energy efficiency improvements

Northwest housing association Onward Homes has partnered with a leading national contractor to deliver en ...

Northwest housing association Onward Homes has partnered with a leading national contractor to deliver energy efficiency measures to 47 homes in Oldham. Working with consultant Michael Dyson Associate ...

1 May, 2024
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Work starts on Laystall Street apartment scheme

|Date: 26 April, 2024

Work starts on Laystall Street apartment scheme

Great Places Housing Group has started work on its £20m apartment scheme at Laystall Street just off Grea ...

Great Places Housing Group has started work on its £20m apartment scheme at Laystall Street just off Great Ancoats Street, in Manchester city centre. The new nine-storey residential development, being ...

26 April, 2024
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ForHousing to build 38 urgently needed homes across two new sites in Salford

|Date: 2 April, 2024

ForHousing to build 38 urgently needed homes across two new sites in Salford

Social housing landlord ForHousing has begun building on two sites in Swinton and Irlam to bring 38 much- ...

Social housing landlord ForHousing has begun building on two sites in Swinton and Irlam to bring 38 much-needed affordable homes to Salford. With the demand for social housing outstripping supply, the ...

2 April, 2024
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