Greater Manchester & Cheshire

Greater Manchester & Cheshire

Getting the basics right and listening to you, your priorities and aspirations remain the foundation for everything we do. Our Corporate Plan, The Onward Difference, is all about enabling you to be your best, in a home you love and place you are proud of. 

Explore updates about the changes we’ve made, as well as examples of how we are making The Onward Difference in your local area. 

Rochdale

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Cheshire East

Enabling people to be there best 

Our partnership with Lovell has seen work restart at our Signallers Croft development of 54 Shared Ownership, 62 Rent to Buy and 23 Affordable Rent homes near Crewe. Work is progressing well on the large site, which has the potential to deliver up to 449 new homes in the coming years. 

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Bolton

Enabling people to be there best 

At Danesway Court, one of our Older Persons schemes in Bolton, customers came together for crafting sessions and over at Crompton Court, another scheme, customers came together to celebrate Easter with games, food and entertainment both designed to boost wellbeing. 

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Creating places people are proud to call home 

During antisocial behaviour week, we delivered a series of series of impact days and walkabouts across Greater Manchester with local police forces and teams across Onward to raise awareness. 

Customers from The Pewfist neighbourhood in Bolton alongside colleagues from Social Investment and Onward Environmental came together with City of Trees at a planting day, which saw native tree species planted to create a more attractive, greener environment for the community to enjoy. 

Bury

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Creating places people are proud to call home 

During antisocial behaviour week, we delivered a series of series of impact days and walkabouts across Greater Manchester with local police forces and teams across Onward to raise awareness. 

Colleagues from across Onward came together to help refurbish a cabin at the Eden Garden Allotments in our Rivers neighbourhood. Malcolm, one of the garden volunteers said: “Please convey our thanks and appreciation to your team for the tremendous work that was carried out yesterday. The transformation of our shabby old cabin into a shiny new one is just brilliant.”   

High Peak

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Manchester

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Oldham

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Creating places people are proud to call home 

During antisocial behaviour week, we delivered a series of series of impact days and walkabouts across Greater Manchester with local police forces and teams across Onward to raise awareness. 

Salford

Enabling people to be there best 

Colleagues from across Onward met with students at Salford City College to share information about careers in the construction industry at an event on International Women’s Day. 

The young people heard about our colleagues’ experiences, were provided with career advice and gained an insight into employment opportunities in the sector. 

Onward, SHAPES, Salford Media Club, Clarion Futures, Great Places and Salix Homes came together to support a free training programme for young people interested in media and podcasting.   

The programme, led by The Reporters’ Academy, empowered local young people with hands-on media training at MediaCity, boosting their confidence, employability, and aspirations through podcast production, real-world experience, and industry exposure. 

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Stockport

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Tameside

Enabling people to be there best 

At Birch Lea Park, our new Extra Care Scheme in Hattersley, during a gardening session designed to support wellbeing, customers came together to fill planters with flowers donated by Vintage Worx Community Development Trust. 

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Creating places people are proud to call home 

During antisocial behaviour week, we delivered a series of series of impact days and walkabouts across Greater Manchester with local police forces and teams across Onward to raise awareness. 

In Hattersley, we held a community clean up day in support of the Great British Spring Clean. Colleagues from Onward, the NHS and Hattersley Environmental Action Team volunteered alongside community members from the Go Green Hub to clear over 50 bags of rubbish and a large skip donated by Rowlinsons. 

Trafford

Providing homes our customers love 

Since April this year, we have made improvements to our existing homes across Lancashire. This has included 56 new kitchens, 60 new bathrooms and 4 new roofs. 

Creating places people are proud to call home 

During a recent neighbourhood inspection at one of our schemes in Trafford, customers told us about issues with overflowing bins. We worked with Trafford Council to address these concerns and have ordered more bins to improve waste management in the area. 

 

Get involved

We want to make sure that your voice is at the heart of everything we do and our Customer Engagement Community helps us do just that. We already have over 3,400 customers from across the North West who help make our homes and neighbourhoods better places to live. You can join them and have the opportunity to:  

  • Shape and improve services  
  • Take part in activities to help improve your neighbourhood and local area 
  • Share concerns, views and ideas 
  • Help to shape policies and strategies 
  • Gain useful experiences, develop new skills and increase your confidence  

Want to get involved? Please email customerengagement@onward.co.uk or sign up via our online form. 

 

Neighbourhood plans

Take a look at the old neighbourhood plans for your area.

The latest progress report on delivering our neighbourhood plans in Greater Manchester & Cheshire:

December 2022

May 2022

January 2022

October 2021

june 2021

OCTOBER 2020

See the original plans for your neighbourhood so you can measure them against our progress. The plans set out what we aim to achieve and improve, and were produced using customer feedback gathered through our STAR survey.

BOLTON NORTH

BOLTON SOUTH

BRUNSWICK

BURY AND RAMSBOTTOM

cheshire east

handforth

haTTERSLEY AND MOTTRAM

MANCHESTER

OLDHAM NORTH

OLDHAM SOUTH

RIVERS

ROCHDALE

SALFORD EAST

SALFORD WEST

STOCKPORT

TAMESIDE

TRAFFORD

WESTHOUGHTON