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.

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Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s concerns regarding his ceiling and report of a water leak.
Case 202016813 · 27 Nov 2021
Complaint: Financial
This complaint is about: The level of a service charge, following the time taken to set up a service charge account. The redress offered to the resident, following a complaint about the time taken to set up the service charge …
Case 202102186 · 22 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: report of a water leak into her property. associated complaint.
Case 202015723 · 20 Nov 2021
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
This complaint is about the landlord’s decision to withdraw its discretionary offer to the resident of a management transfer to another property.
Case 202005639 · 19 Nov 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about the level of redress the landlord offered in respect of its acknowledged delays and failures whilst handling repairs and the resident’s subsequent complaint.
Case 202012533 · 19 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
REPORT COMPLAINT 202112196 London & Quadrant Housing Trust 19 November 2021 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. […]
Case 202112196 · 19 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: response to the resident’s reports of a leak at his property and the amount of compensation subsequently offered; complaints handling.
Case 202100123 · 18 Nov 2021
Complaint: Occupancy Rights
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: request to succeed her late father’s tenancy. concerns about the condition of her late father’s property. concerns about repairs at her property including damp and mould.
Case 202003307 · 16 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: the landlord’s handling of the resident’s report of a faulty boiler. the landlord's complaint handling.
Case 202017302 · 15 Nov 2021
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
REPORT COMPLAINT 202100650 London & Quadrant Housing Trust 11 November 2021 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. […]
Case 202100650 · 15 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s request for repairs. Associated complaint handling.
Case 202005641 · 11 Nov 2021
Complaint: Financial
The complaint concerns the landlord’s response to enquiries the resident has made about their liability to pay a service charge for a fire risk assessment.
Case 202016830 · 11 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s application for re-housing. The landlord’s associated complaint handling. The landlord changing its housing allocation policy.
Case 202014974 · 9 Nov 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
REPORT COMPLAINT 202104391 London & Quadrant Housing Trust 8 November 2021 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 202104391 · 8 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about how the landlord handled the resident’s request to assign his tenancy. The Ombudsman has also investigated the landlord’s complaint handling in relation to the above matter.
Case 202104947 · 3 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of repairs to her front garden brick wall. The landlord’s handling of the associated complaint.
Case 202015115 · 2 Nov 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The level of compensation offered by the landlord for its handling of a repair to the resident’s balcony door. The landlord’s handling of the associated complaint.
Case 202108116 · 2 Nov 2021
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about how it handled her rent and council tax accounts, following a decant from her permanent property.
Case 202008020 · 26 Oct 2021
Complaint: Local Authority / ALMO or TMO
The landlord's response to the resident’s reports about the condition of his porch roof.
Case 202012846 · 21 Oct 2021
Complaint: Estate Management
This complaint is about the landlord’s refusal to provide the resident with access to allow them to park in their garden.
Case 202001148 · 21 Oct 2021
London Borough of Hackney (202016460) Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision to no longer include water rates in rent. The level of rent and the amount of the rent increase. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202016460 · 20 Oct 2021
Complaint: Financial
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for a reimbursement of inaccurate service charges she paid in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
Case 202002452 · 7 Oct 2021
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s concerns regarding service charges applied to her account. Complaint handling.
Case 202002423 · 4 Oct 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint concerns how the landlord dealt with: The resident’s reports of a water leak into her bathroom. Reports of disturbed asbestos in the roof tiles and pipework serving her property. The formal complaint into these matters.
Case 202103839 · 4 Oct 2021
Complaint: Financial
This complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of issues with heating and hot water from the communal plant room. The landlord’s overall management of the servicing of the heat interface units (HIUs). The landlord’s decision to reintroduce a heating and …
Case 202003604 · 30 Sep 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of: Damp at the property and subsequent repairs. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202007697 · 30 Sep 2021
Complaint: Estate Management
This complaint is about the landlords handling of the resident’s: Reports of overgrown trees depositing debris in his garden. Reports of boiler repairs in October 2020. Request for assistance with the costs of home improvements/disability adaptations. Subsequent formal complaint. Reports …
Case 202014685 · 30 Sep 2021
Complaint: Financial
The complaint concerns: The landlord charging the resident for a service charge he was not liable for. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s enquiries and complaint.
Case 202017452 · 29 Sep 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The condition of the property when the resident moved in there. The landlord’s handling of the subsequent repairs to the resident’s property. The landlord’s associated complaint handling.
Case 202015079 · 22 Sep 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the level of compensation the landlord offered the resident for repair delays.
Case 202102187 · 16 Sep 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: repairs to the resident’s rear door and stairway handrail. the resident’s request to be reimbursed for additional heating costs associated with the rear door repair.
Case 202105179 · 15 Sep 2021
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the time taken for the landlord to inform the resident that a potential buyer had pulled out of the purchase of her property.
Case 202103724 · 13 Sep 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns the landlord’s response to the resident’s requests for it to replace her poorly performing heating system.
Case 202012737 · 10 Sep 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
REPORT COMPLAINT 202011249 London & Quadrant Housing Trust 2 September 2021 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. […]
Case 202011249 · 3 Sep 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of fumes from the vehicle garage below her home.
Case 202015465 · 3 Sep 2021
London Borough of Hillingdon (202103112) Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Local Authority / ALMO or TMO
The complaint refers to: The landlord’s handling of adaptations needed within the resident’s property. The resident’s concerns about the recommendations made by Occupational Therapy. The landlord’s handling of the associated complaint and record keeping.
Case 202103112 · 2 Sep 2021
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s concerns over fire safety in her property. Response to the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) from her neighbours. Associated complaint handling.
Case 202012367 · 1 Sep 2021
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: the landlord's response to the resident’s reports of cracks and subsidence at the property and the back door not closing properly. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202007527 · 20 Aug 2021
Complaint: Local Authority / ALMO or TMO
REPORT COMPLAINT 202012859 Hackney Council 16 August 2021 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 […]
Case 202012859 · 16 Aug 2021
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s concerns that it removed her bikes from the bike shed without her consent or notice. Complaint handling.
Case 202013618 · 13 Aug 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The resident is complaining about the landlord’s handling of repairs in their property.
Case 201800178 · 10 Aug 2021
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the level of rent at the property.
Case 202102841 · 5 Aug 2021
Complaint: Local Authority / ALMO or TMO
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of repairs to the property, involving plumbing leaks, damp, and asbestos. The landlord’s decision to suspend the replacement of kitchen and bathroom works in the property.
Case 202012302 · 30 Jul 2021
London Borough of Hillingdon (202004603) Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Local Authority / ALMO or TMO
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of the replacement of the front door. Handling of the installation of an extractor fan. Response to the resident’s reports of damp and mould. Response to the resident’s reports of defects to the …
Case 202004603 · 26 Jul 2021
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint refers to: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of a water leak into her property. The resident’s concern that she should be paying her service charge directly to the managing agent of the building instead of the …
Case 202002368 · 22 Jul 2021
Complaint: Health and Safety (inc. building safety)
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s concerns regarding the requirement to carry out fire safety remedial works in the building which he owns a property in. Response to the resident’s concerns that it was not responsible …
Case 202017370 · 22 Jul 2021
Complaint: Financial
The complaint refers to: The landlord’s handling of repairs following a leak from the roof of the resident’s building. The landlord’s response to the resident’s request for compensation for distress and inconvenience and costs incurred as a result of the …
Case 202009045 · 21 Jul 2021
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint refers to: The landlord’s introduction of a communal caretaking service and service charge for this. The resident’s concerns about the level of service charge and her request for this to be removed. The resident’s concerns about the frequency …
Case 202000245 · 20 Jul 2021
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The resident has complained that the landlord has offered insufficient compensation after upholding their complaint about the condition of the property when let, and about the handling of the resulting repairs.
Case 202007908 · 13 Jul 2021
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB).
Case 202014608 · 6 Jul 2021