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.http://www.greatplaces.org.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Great%20Places%20Housing%20Group%20-%20map%20of%20where%20we%20work.pdf 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.Place North West https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/great-places-completes-merger-despite-far-from-ideal-circumstances/
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[ing the development] as the archetypal regeneration project of the Blair years". Park Hill, Sheffield.
In 2008, it managed a pilot home zone in Northmoor, Manchester.
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