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
Total Decisions
11,758
Maladministration Found
2,212
No Maladministration
161
Severe Cases
Decisions by Year
Top Landlords by Volume
Clarion Housing Association Limited
817
Peabody Trust
522
London & Quadrant Housing Trust
517
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q)
488
Sanctuary Housing Association
360
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTV)
313
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Common Topics (last 2 years)
Top Landlords
Clarion Housing Association Limited (817)
Peabody Trust (522)
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (517)
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) (488)
Sanctuary Housing Association (360)
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTV) (313)
Hyde Housing Association Limited (309)
The Guinness Partnership Limited (299)
Southern Housing (273)
Southwark Council (266)
A2Dominion Housing Group Limited (239)
Notting Hill Genesis (229)
Showing 1,419 of 16,227 decisions
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.
Lambeth Council (202229266)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of a replacement door.
LiveWest Homes Limited (202229671)
Reasonable Redress
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.
One Housing Group Limited (202311150)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of leaks, damp, and mould.
Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association Limited (202229316)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of repairs to a communal lift. Complaint handling.
Vivid Housing Limited (202222069)
Reasonable Redress
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.
Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) (202302192)
Reasonable Redress
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.
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTV) (202219881)
Reasonable Redress
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.
Richmond Housing Partnership Limited (202226529)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about the proposed location of refuse ramps.
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).
London Borough of Newham (202305405)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s service charge queries. The associated complaint.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202302116)
Reasonable Redress
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.
Richmond Housing Partnership Limited (202214075)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response following a fire at the property. Complaint handling.
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.
The Guinness Partnership Limited (202301691)
Reasonable Redress
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.
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.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202300819)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Information and data management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s communication preferences.
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.
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.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202210484)
Reasonable Redress
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) (202305135)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the remedial works to the property following a flood.
Platform Housing Group Limited (202231124)
Reasonable Redress
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.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202213067)
Reasonable Redress
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.
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.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202229282)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: Latent defects in the resident’s bathroom. The associated complaint.
Stevenage Borough Council (202216063)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident concerning a fire at the block.
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.
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.
Nottingham City Homes Limited (202228693)
Reasonable Redress
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.
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) (202219957)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of repairs to the property’s heating and hot water. Complaint handling.
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) (202314354)
Reasonable Redress
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.
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.
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.
Golding Homes Limited (202213912)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of a staircasing application made by the resident.
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) (202208759)
Reasonable Redress
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.
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.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202206428)
Reasonable Redress
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.
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.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202204869)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of a burst pipe and subsequent damage.
Optivo (now Southern Housing) (202123226)
Reasonable Redress
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.
Community Gateway Association Limited (202209378)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Decision to increase the property’s rent. The landlord’s communications with the resident.
Sovereign Network Homes (202220575)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of vermin in her property.
Tamil Community Housing Association Limited (202123536)
Reasonable Redress
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 …
Sovereign Network Homes (202214095)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s provision of information relating to: Parking. Snags and defects.
A2Dominion Housing Group Limited (202212450)
Reasonable Redress
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.
Stockport Homes Limited (202213837)
Reasonable Redress
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.
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.