Misplaced Pages

Great Places is a housing association in the United Kingdom, formerly the Manchester Methodist Housing Association. Great Places provides 25,000+ homes mostly in North West England. The organisation is an industrial and provident society headquartered in Manchester.

In 2020, Equity Housing Group merged into Great Places. The combined organisation has 25,000 homes.

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

Its developments include:

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

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

References

1. http://www.greatplaces.org.uk/Publication/Great%20Places%20annual%20report%202011%20for%20email%20and%20web.pdf
2. http://www.greatplaces.org.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Great%20Places%20Housing%20Group%20-%20map%20of%20where%20we%20work.pdf
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.

This article related to a non-profit organization is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Housing associations based in England
• Organisations based in Manchester
• Non-profit organization stubs