Housing Ombudsman Decisions

Formal casework decisions from the Housing Ombudsman Service on complaints against social landlords in England. Decisions include maladministration findings, reasonable redress, and cases outside jurisdiction.

16,227
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11,758
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2,212
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161
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Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord's response to the resident's request to cut back trees in the back garden of the resident’s property.
Case 202203195 · 11 Apr 2023
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s administration and communication in relation to the resident’s service charge query.
Case 202211416 · 6 Apr 2023
Complaint: Estate Management
This complaint is about the landlord’s: Decision not to install a particular style of fence. Response to the resident’s concerns about the boundary line. Response to the resident’s concerns that he had been discriminated against.
Case 202124288 · 4 Apr 2023
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for a management move.
Case 202219504 · 31 Mar 2023
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to a complaint about communal cleaning provision. The landlord not providing a breakdown of service charges.
Case 202201833 · 31 Mar 2023
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of blocked drains outside her property. The landlord’s complaints handling.
Case 202124509 · 30 Mar 2023
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about it referring her to a mental health agency. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB).
Case 202104146 · 30 Mar 2023
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision to remove the communal porch doors to the resident’s property. its associated complaint handling.
Case 202114834 · 29 Mar 2023
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports concerning antisocial behaviour. The resident’s request for a management transfer. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202120262 · 29 Mar 2023
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s maintenance of communal grounds; The landlord’s handling of reports of poor staff conduct toward the resident.
Case 202116152 · 27 Mar 2023
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) and his request for a management transfer.
Case 202111421 · 14 Mar 2023
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the consultation process with residents, prior to the 2021 partnership between the landlord and another housing association. The Service has also considered any associated complaint handling.
Case 202121870 · 7 Mar 2023
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of noise disturbance and anti-social behaviour (ASB).
Case 202122912 · 27 Feb 2023
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s property transfer application.
Case 202208879 · 24 Feb 2023
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord's handling of repairs to the kitchen taps of the property and her complaint about the conduct of the contractor undertaking the repair.
Case 202113020 · 21 Feb 2023
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of noise nuisance.
Case 202120451 · 16 Feb 2023
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The applicant’s application to purchase a shared ownership property. The applicant’s complaint.
Case 202121006 · 13 Feb 2023
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision to include the cost of decontaminating bins within the service charge; The landlord not providing individual bins to residents; and The landlord’s refusal to install CCTV.
Case 202120347 · 8 Feb 2023
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for a replacement shed.
Case 202210331 · 1 Feb 2023
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request to pave her back garden to prevent pests from burrowing.
Case 202205088 · 1 Feb 2023
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: the priority awarded to the resident’s transfer application. the repairs to the resident’s property following the leak into the lounge; the related complaint.
Case 202105061 · 30 Jan 2023
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of, and response to, the resident’s application for a mutual exchange.
Case 202205746 · 27 Jan 2023
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns related to staff conduct. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202109046 · 23 Jan 2023
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of defects with his new build property.
Case 202000668 · 19 Jan 2023
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s Right to Buy (RTB) application.
Case 202109170 · 15 Dec 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about: Flooring in the property. A tree in the garden of the property. The shower at the property.
Case 202115661 · 9 Dec 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord's handling of external redecoration works to the property. The landlord’s complaint handling has also been considered.
Case 202015276 · 18 Nov 2022
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s application to be rehoused.
Case 202016991 · 13 Nov 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the resident’s concerns that that the landlord has withheld consent for adaptations works to be carried out.
Case 202102182 · 11 Nov 2022
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for succession to the tenancy at the property.
Case 202108787 · 9 Nov 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of issues with her boiler and a mouse infestation; concerns about its staff member’s conduct, in particular the advice provided on the condition of her property.
Case 202200995 · 2 Nov 2022
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord’s handling of her reports of Anti Social Behaviour (“ASB”) by a neighbour. The landlord’s complaint handling has also been considered.
Case 202106822 · 31 Oct 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about the quality of the carpet in the property.
Case 202121725 · 6 Oct 2022
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s refusal of a request for a management transfer.
Case 202102884 · 3 Oct 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for a bathroom replacement.
Case 202200310 · 30 Sep 2022
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s response: to the resident’s report of anti- social behaviour (ASB) from her neighbours. to the resident’s report of staff conduct. to the related complaint.
Case 202016189 · 28 Sep 2022
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request to install a boundary fence around her garden.
Case 202127389 · 27 Sep 2022
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: response to a request to install a driveway to the front of the resident’s property; response to a request for a fence in the resident’s back garden; complaint handling.
Case 202116974 · 23 Sep 2022
Complaint: Information and data management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports that the landlord falsified documents. The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of staff conduct. The landlord’s response to the resident’s request for a move. The landlord’s handling of …
Case 202002958 · 13 Sep 2022
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s decision to recharge the resident for damage caused to temporary accommodation.
Case 202121373 · 13 Sep 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled reports of damp and mould in the property and its decision not to offer compensation for damage caused to the resident’s personal items .
Case 202128330 · 12 Sep 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint concerns: The landlord’s decision to issue a letter and email relating to its intention to begin possession proceedings and its handling of the resident’s concerns about its decision. The amount of compensation offered by the landlord for delays …
Case 202123803 · 12 Sep 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
REPORT COMPLAINT 202121737 Hyde Housing Association Limited 9 September 2022 Our approach The Housing Ombudsman’s approach to investigating and determining complaints is to decide what is fair in all the circumstances of the case. This […]
Case 202121737 · 9 Sep 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s compensation request in respect to structural works, for which she was decanted from her property for seven weeks.
Case 202109659 · 31 Aug 2022
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s compensation claim about leaks which resulted in a decant.
Case 202014672 · 31 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of repairs relating to her shed.
Case 202122653 · 24 Aug 2022
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) from a neighbour.
Case 202112421 · 18 Aug 2022
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s: Request for a refund of the service charges and details of the costs. The landlord’s management of the resident’s rent account. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling …
Case 202117113 · 10 Aug 2022
Complaint: Occupancy Rights
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Decision not to add the resident’s two children as members of the household on the tenancy. Response to a report of mice in the property.
Case 202107472 · 10 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports concerning the condition of the kitchen at her property. The landlord’s response to the resident’s request for the kitchen to be replaced.
Case 202100264 · 1 Aug 2022