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 1,955 of 16,227 decisions matching "borough"
Royal Borough Of Greenwich (202121354)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Old Complaints Handling categories
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s reports of water ingress from her roof and resulting damage to her ceiling, damp and mould. Handling of the resident’s reports of a faulty oven. Response to the resident’s report …
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (202128113)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of water ingress at his property. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s handling of the associated complaint.
London Borough of Ealing (202213529)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of damp and mould. The resident’s reports of leaking taps. The decant process. The associated complaint.
London Borough of Hackney (202121330)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about: Missing belongings from her previous property following an emergency transfer and related staff conduct. Its refusal to replace a blind at her current property. Complaints handling.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (202120447)
Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident's: Requests for major works information. Concerns about workmanship quality.
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (202216776)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Information and data management
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of: its subcontractor removing and disposing of her furniture and personal belongings; repairs. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s: complaint handling; record keeping.
Haringey London Borough Council (202223203)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about: The level and reasonableness of the landlord's service charges for major works for a fire door and alarms at the resident’s property. The landlord’s handling of outstanding works to replace the resident’s flat entrance door. The …
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (202206884)
Maladministration
Complaint: Information and data management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of repairs to fix a leaking roof. Complaints handling. Knowledge and information management.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council (202125602)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to: The resident’s reports of damp and mould and outstanding repair issues at the resident’s property. The resident’s insurance claim. Staff behaviour. Complaint handling.
Charnwood Borough Council (202215660)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s decision to terminate his tenancy due to concerns about antisocial behaviour (ASB) and damp and mould at the property.
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council (202126740)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of damp and mould. The associated formal complaint.
London Borough of Brent (202204732)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
This complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s reports of leaks from the roof and subsequent internal damage to his property. Response to the resident’s concerns about his insurance claim for the damage to his property.
London Borough of Ealing (202210609)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord's handling of the resident’s: Reports of damp and mould while it arranged a temporary decant. Request for alternative, permanent accommodation. Offers of temporary decant properties. Subsequent decant to a hotel, specifically regarding food allowance …
London Borough of Hackney (202119231)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of repairs to the front door and extractor fan. Handling of reports of damp and mould in the property. Decision not to allow the resident to move into her parent’s three-bedroom property.
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of repairs following a leak. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Haringey London Borough Council (202228697)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damaged windows. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
London Borough of Harrow (202207870)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: Pigeon proofing works at the property. The landlord’s handling of flooring works, carried out as part of major works. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s complaint.
Haringey London Borough Council (202123994)
Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) and noise. The associated complaint.
London Borough of Redbridge (202208497)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The landlord’s handling of: Reports of a leak coming from the property above, damp and mould in the property. The associated complaint.
London Borough of Ealing (202117829)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: A roof leak and the associated repair works. The associated complaint.
London Borough of Hackney (202207096)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is regarding the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of leaks into his property and resultant damage. A decant application. This investigation has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (202013480)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of repairs and information the landlord provided from the start of the tenancy. The associated complaint.
London Borough of Croydon (202216848)
Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about: The landlord's handling of proposed actions from multi agency meeting to address reported antisocial behaviour. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s complaint.
London Borough of Ealing (202229501)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of a water leak into the property and the maintenance of the roof. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Eastbourne Borough Council (202213599)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Information and data management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: response to the resident’s concerns about multiple property moves prior to her latest move; response to the resident’s concerns about the conduct of her previous housing officer; response to the resident’s concerns about incorrect …
Haringey London Borough Council (202120142)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of: Antisocial behaviour. Noise from the neighbour’s toilet. We have also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
Swindon Borough Council (202125858)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of repairs to the resident’s property. Complaint handling.
London Borough of Sutton (202127305)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint relates to: The landlord’s handling of reports of a pest infestation. The landlord’s handling of the complaint.
Dartford Borough Council (202203494)
Severe Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
REPORT COMPLAINT 202203494 Dartford Borough Council 18 October 2023 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. […]
Complaint: Occupancy Rights
This complaint is about the landlord’s decision to end, and not regrant, the resident’s tenancy. The landlord became aware that the spouse was seeking housing in April 2020 and that the relationship had broken down. At the time, the landlord …
London Borough of Newham (202103663)
Severe Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: response to the resident’s report of an ongoing leak. complaint handling. This investigation will also consider landlord’s record keeping.
London Borough of Hillingdon (202201619)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of reports of poor workmanship relating to balcony repairs.
London Borough of Enfield (202220213)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of repairs to the resident’s property, including: damp in the bedroom, loose windows, cracks to the outside of the property, and, mice. The Ombudsman has also considered the associated complaint handling.
Haringey London Borough Council (202212612)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damp and mould.
London Borough of Brent (202124195)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord’s handling repairs at the property, including: The roof and guttering issues reported between June 2021 and February 2022. The drain and holes in the driveway identified in July 2021. The leak reported in …
Ipswich Borough Council (202119978)
Mediation
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about: The condition of the property at the beginning of the tenancy. The landlord’s handling of the complaint.
Haringey London Borough Council (202202560)
Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: a request that it provide a service charge refund; the associated complaint.
London Borough of Hackney (202102368)
Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The resident’s request for a new bathroom and a new front door. The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of mould in her bathroom. The Ombudsman will consider the landlord’s complaint handling.
London Borough of Newham (202115536)
Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlords handling of the residents reports of noise nuisance. This investigation has also considered the landlords complaint management.
London Borough of Newham (202227845)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: Reports of damp and mould in the resident’s property. The associated complaint.
Waverley Borough Council (202217773)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord's decision to use part of a communal car park as a storage and welfare area for its contractor.
Dartford Borough Council (202303482)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: Reports of anti-social behaviour involving the resident’s neighbour including noise nuisance, smell from the neighbour’s property and the storing of bulky items and household waste in the garden. The resident’s neighbour accusing …
London Borough of Croydon (202118843)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of anti social behaviour (ASB). The resident’s management transfer request. The associated complaint.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (202128246)
Reasonable Redress
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The landlord’s handling of: Damp and mould within the resident’s property and request for new windows. The resident’s request to be rehoused on medical grounds.
Waverley Borough Council (202219548)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint concerns: How the landlord handled a leak in the resident’s property. How it handled the repairs in the property following the leak. The conduct of its staff members who spoke to the resident about the leak.
London Borough of Croydon (202204220)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The resident’s complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about his toilet and drains. The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about asbestos in his property. The resident’s request to move. The Ombudsman has investigated the landlord’s …
London Borough of Hillingdon (202230250)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of hot water and heating loss.
London Borough of Ealing (202221355)
Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of a broken communal main entrance door, to the building of her property. associated complaint.
London Borough of Hackney (202225107)
Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is regarding the landlord’s; Handling of the resident’s concerns about his service charge account. Complaints handling.
Royal Borough Of Greenwich (202225827)
Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damp and mould in the property.