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
Maladministration Found
2,212
No Maladministration
161
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Peabody Trust 522
London & Quadrant Housing Trust 517
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Tower Hamlets Homes (202303030) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of reports of a blocked sink and the resulting damage.
Case 202303030 · 25 Apr 2024
Lambeth Council (202229266) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of a replacement door.
Case 202229266 · 24 Apr 2024
Complaint: Occupancy Rights
The complaint is about how the landlord handled the resident’s request for its support with a neighbour dispute about access to her property.
Case 202229671 · 22 Apr 2024
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of leaks, damp, and mould.
Case 202311150 · 22 Apr 2024
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of repairs to a communal lift. Complaint handling.
Case 202229316 · 19 Apr 2024
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about the landlord's handling of reports of damp and mould within the resident’s home.
Case 202222069 · 19 Apr 2024
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s offer of compensation in relation to its handling of the: Works required to the resident’s front door. Formal complaint.
Case 202302192 · 18 Apr 2024
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlords handling of the resident’s request for her windows to be replaced. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202219881 · 16 Apr 2024
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about the proposed location of refuse ramps.
Case 202226529 · 16 Apr 2024
Regenda Limited (202321067) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for assistance in relation to the issuing of two meter point reference numbers (MPRN).
Case 202321067 · 15 Apr 2024
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s service charge queries. The associated complaint.
Case 202305405 · 12 Apr 2024
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for a permanent decant due to damp and mould in the property. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202302116 · 11 Apr 2024
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response following a fire at the property. Complaint handling.
Case 202214075 · 11 Apr 2024
Aster Group Limited (202310554) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The landlord’s handling of reports of repairs to the roof, and damp and mould issues.
Case 202310554 · 9 Apr 2024
Complaint: Old Property Condition categories
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of a rat infestation and related repairs.
Case 202301691 · 9 Apr 2024
Peabody Trust (202210230) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the compensation offered by the landlord for its handling of the resident’s reports of drainage issues affecting his toilet. The Ombudsman has also considered the compensation offered for its complaint handling.
Case 202210230 · 28 Mar 2024
Complaint: Information and data management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s communication preferences.
Case 202300819 · 27 Mar 2024
Peabody Trust (202300330) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of the resident’s request for rehousing on medical grounds. Complaint handling.
Case 202300330 · 21 Mar 2024
Stonewater Limited (202305674) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of a silverfish infestation linked to damp in and around the property.
Case 202305674 · 21 Mar 2024
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision to evict the resident and dispose of her personal belongings from the property. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202210484 · 20 Mar 2024
Islington Council (202234306) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damp and mould.
Case 202234306 · 19 Mar 2024
Aster Group Limited (202209256) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s prospective purchase of a shared ownership property.
Case 202209256 · 18 Mar 2024
Stonewater Limited (202303389) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
REPORT COMPLAINT 202303389 Stonewater Limited 15 March 2024 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 202303389 · 15 Mar 2024
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the remedial works to the property following a flood.
Case 202305135 · 14 Mar 2024
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s: Reports of repairs required at the property. Request for rehousing.
Case 202231124 · 11 Mar 2024
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of the annual gas safety inspection at the resident’s property and its communication. Complaint handling.
Case 202213067 · 8 Mar 2024
Peabody Trust (202226388) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s reports of fleas in the property. Complaints handling.
Case 202226388 · 1 Mar 2024
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: Latent defects in the resident’s bathroom. The associated complaint.
Case 202229282 · 28 Feb 2024
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident concerning a fire at the block.
Case 202216063 · 28 Feb 2024
Stonewater Limited (202231044) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of a leak in the kitchen and the level of compensation offered.
Case 202231044 · 28 Feb 2024
Peabody Trust (202207942) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the condition of the property at the start of the tenancy.
Case 202207942 · 26 Feb 2024
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damage to her kitchen cupboards.
Case 202228693 · 23 Feb 2024
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of repairs to the property’s heating and hot water. Complaint handling.
Case 202219957 · 21 Feb 2024
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The complaint is about the landlord letting a property to the resident without a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm.
Case 202314354 · 21 Feb 2024
Tower Hamlets Homes (202214609) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of leaks into his property in 2022.
Case 202214609 · 21 Feb 2024
Peabody Trust (202200342) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of noise nuisance. The Ombudsman has also investigated the landlord's complaint handling.
Case 202200342 · 15 Feb 2024
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of a staircasing application made by the resident.
Case 202213912 · 14 Feb 2024
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: response to the resident’s concerns regarding the allocation and size of parking spaces; handling of the resident’s complaints concerning maintenance and refurbishment works.
Case 202208759 · 14 Feb 2024
Peabody Trust (202205908) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: Requests for a refurbished bathroom. Reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) and noise nuisance from a neighbouring property.
Case 202205908 · 14 Feb 2024
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s: Concerns about not being consulted prior to introducing alternative parking enforcement on the estate. Associated formal complaint.
Case 202206428 · 9 Feb 2024
Abri Group Limited (202206759) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: handling of the resident’s requests to adapt its communication to meet her accessibility needs. complaint handling.
Case 202206759 · 31 Jan 2024
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of a burst pipe and subsequent damage.
Case 202204869 · 31 Jan 2024
Complaint: Estate Management
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s complaint about the reduced size of a disabled parking bay.
Case 202123226 · 29 Jan 2024
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Decision to increase the property’s rent. The landlord’s communications with the resident.
Case 202209378 · 26 Jan 2024
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of vermin in her property.
Case 202220575 · 23 Jan 2024
Complaint: Old Complaints Handling categories
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s: reports of a leak affecting their property. request for suitable alternative accommodation while works to the repair the leak were undertaken. concerns regarding the conduct of its staff. The Ombudsman …
Case 202123536 · 11 Jan 2024
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s provision of information relating to: Parking. Snags and defects.
Case 202214095 · 8 Jan 2024
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports concerning the conduct of its contractor’s staff and the resulting ‘duty of care’ alert raised against the resident by its contractors. The associated complaints.
Case 202212450 · 3 Jan 2024
Complaint: Estate Management
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s concerns about the standard of communal cleaning. The associated complaint.
Case 202213837 · 21 Dec 2023
Thurrock Council (202202533) Reasonable Redress
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of anti-social behaviour (ASB) against his neighbour. The landlord’s handling of counter-allegations of ASB against the resident made by the neighbour.
Case 202202533 · 21 Dec 2023