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 1,959 of 16,227 decisions
Notting Hill Genesis (202121009)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s dissatisfaction with being issued a Notice of Seeking Possession (NOSP) after an electrical safety check.
Shepherds Bush Housing Association Limited (202112342)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: the resident’s anti-social behaviour (ASB) reports; adaptations to the resident’s property; the related complaint.
A2Dominion Housing Group Limited (202101814)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of: repairs required to the electrics in the property including the associated removal of asbestos material. clearance of rubbish from the garden the related complaint.
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (202126465)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of repairs to the resident’s letterbox. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Ongo Homes Limited (202124519)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports about the affordability of his heating system.
Orbit Group Limited (202200204)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about its responsibility for repairs and maintenance in the grounds of his estate under the terms of his lease. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of communal repairs …
Richmondshire District Council (202104410)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about: Whether the resident was given the opportunity to postpone the works to her bathroom in January 2021. A discrepancy between the Risk Assessment and Method Statement for those works. Rubbish being left in the resident’s property …
Thirteen Housing Group Limited (202126558)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
This complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request to purchase her home under the Right to Buy scheme (RTB).
Wakefield And District Housing Limited (202123680)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Occupancy Rights
The complaint is about the landlord’s request for the resident to rehouse her pet cat.
Derby Homes Limited (202125471)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The resident complains about the level of redress offered by the landlord in relation to a fly infestation in his property.
Beyond Housing Limited (202118761)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of enquiries concerning the resident’s contents insurance policy.
Cannock Chase District Council (202106467)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The resident has complained about: The landlord’s response to reports of ASB and counter allegations. The landlord’s handling of his concerns about staff conduct.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202105519)
Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s concerns about charges for use of an electrical vehicle charging point.
East Midlands Housing Group Limited (202116488)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord's handling of repairs to the external rendering of the resident’s property.
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (202005143)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of a leak into his property. The landlord’s complaints handling.
Network Homes Limited (202125240)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s concerns about the condition, safety and security of her garden when she moved into her property.
Newlon Housing Trust (202123300)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s report of pests in her home.
Onward Homes Limited (202107346)
Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s report of potholes in the communal carpark. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Tower Hamlets Homes (202205210)
Outside Jurisdiction
Complaint: Financial
The resident’s complaint is about major works carried out at the resident’s building, specifically: The landlord has failed to fulfil its obligations under Sections 19 and 20 of the Landlord Tenant Act. The scope of the repairs expended after work …
Haringey Council (202106442)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of a leak.
Innisfree Housing Association Limited (202112421)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) from a neighbour.
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (201702669)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The resident has complained about: The landlord’s response to the complaint about the incorrectly registered gas meters. The landlord’s response to the complaint about the management of the building. The landlord’s response to the questions about the service charges. The …
Sanctuary Housing Association (202016075)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint concerns: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of noise nuisance from the neighbour in the upstairs flat. The related complaint handling.
Tower Hamlets Homes (202200653)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for her front door to be replaced and her request for compensation.
Wolverhampton City Council (202113087)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of rubble in her rear garden; concerns about the landlord’s operatives attending unannounced; reports of a rodent infestation; request to for a property transfer. The complaint is also about …
Hammersmith and Fulham Council (202102546)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to multiple repairs in the resident’s property (including the windows, the smoke detector, the extractor, the roof leak, and mould). The landlord’s complaint handling.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council (202204059)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of roof repairs.
Jigsaw Homes Tameside (202106221)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is regarding the landlord’s: Handling of the resident’s anti-social behaviour (ASB) reports, and allegations made against him. Response to the resident’s previous concerns over staff conduct. Decision not to consider various new complaints. Decision to impose contact restrictions …
Midland Heart Limited (202108007)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of disrepair issues, including (but not limited to): a rodent infestation; a blocked drain; lighting in kitchen and bathroom; request for a property transfer.
Notting Hill Genesis (202105526)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s: reports of a pest infestation and the associated repairs reports of dampness in the property the related complaint
The Guinness Partnership Limited (202113535)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of ivy growing onto her property from a neighbouring property.
Vivid Housing Limited (202120265)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of damp and mould within the property. Repairs needed to the communal lifts within the building and the support offered to the resident. The resident’s request for a management …
Wandle Housing Association Limited (202120180)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s application for a mutual exchange.
Westminster City Council (202120284)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled repairs to the ceilings in the property.
Catalyst Housing Limited (202114965)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of the resident’s concerns regarding the temperature in one of the bedrooms in the property. Complaint handling.
Habinteg Housing Association Limited (202012489)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s request for the windows in the property to be renewed. The associated complaint.
Hyde Housing Association Limited (202127047)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s report of a leak underneath her kitchen sink and the subsequent repair issues.
Peabody Trust (202016218)
Maladministration
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of a gas safety check at the resident’s property. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s complaint.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202014997)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaints referred to this Service are about: Rent and service charge increases since the start of the resident’s tenancy and the landlord’s administration of the resident’s rent account. The landlord’s decision to serve a Notice of Seeking Possession (NOSP) …
Southwark Council (202118163)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s reports of damp and mould in her property and in the basement below it. Complaint handling.
The Riverside Group Limited (202113445)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for the replacement of a chain-link fence in the property.
Thurrock Council (202116791)
Outside Jurisdiction
Complaint: Managing Relations
REPORT COMPLAINT 202116791 Thurrock Council 16 August 2022 Our approach What we can and cannot consider is called the Ombudsman’s jurisdiction and is governed by the Housing Ombudsman Scheme. The Ombudsman must determine whether a […]
Your Housing Limited (202113237)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision to increase the service charges. The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about the standard and frequency of its communal service provision.
Bristol City Council (202127683)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for it to reimburse the cost of a private contractor the resident hired to repair a faulty aerial.
Broadland Housing Association Limited (202101362)
Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about: the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of ASB from January 2020 onwards. the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of ASB between December 2017 and December 2019. a lack of clarity relating to the property’s …
Hammersmith and Fulham Council (202127081)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of mould in her toilet bowl.
Havering Council (202112977)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
REPORT COMPLAINT 202112977 Havering Council 12 August 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 is set […]
Leeds City Council (202125900)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damp and leaks following a repair to her roof.
Town and Country Housing (202121309)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB). The resident’s reports of being exposed to Covid-19 by a contractor . Repairs required in the resident’s former property. The associated complaint.
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the level of compensation the landlord offered in relation to its handling of repairs and its contractor’s conduct.