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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2,212
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161
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Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s compensation request in respect to structural works, for which she was decanted from her property for seven weeks.
Case 202109659 · 31 Aug 2022
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of various repairs in the property. reports about a boundary dispute with a neighbour.
Case 202005287 · 31 Aug 2022
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Handling of the resident’s concerns about the condition of the property including her understanding that it was in a noise-controlled area. Handling of the resident’s reports of various repair issues including those relating to …
Case 202009510 · 31 Aug 2022
Peabody Trust (202112807) Partial Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled: Noise nuisance from a scrapyard near the property. The sale of the property to the resident. The associated formal complaint into these matters.
Case 202112807 · 31 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s report of recurrent leaks from the property above.
Case 202112913 · 31 Aug 2022
Stoke-on-Trent City Council (202113456) Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to: The resident’s reports of water ingress. The resident’s reports concerning the lift shaft, broken Perspex, trees outside the property and damp and mould. The associated complaint.
Case 202113456 · 31 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s report of a pest infestation in her property.
Case 202200377 · 31 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about: The length of time the resident had to wait to move into the property. The landlord’s response to the resident’s requests for reasonable adjustments whilst waiting for Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funded adaptations to be carried …
Case 202100386 · 31 Aug 2022
Vivid Housing Limited (202104383) No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint concerns how the landlord allocated the parking bays for the resident’s property.
Case 202104383 · 31 Aug 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint concerns the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s leak reports and related compensation claim for damage caused to the property. The related complaint.
Case 202011026 · 30 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlords handling of the residents reports of a moth infestation in the property.
Case 202114070 · 30 Aug 2022
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of water ingress, damp, and other repairs to the property. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s temporary decant and his request for a permanent move. The landlord’s complaints handling.
Case 202111856 · 30 Aug 2022
Lambeth Council (202108805) Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The resident’s complaint was about: The landlord’s handling of repairs to the resident’s property. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s concerns regarding the removal of the neighbour’s garden wall. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202108805 · 26 Aug 2022
Leeds City Council (202100672) No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
This complaint is about: The resident’s request to be rehoused; The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about the condition of the property.
Case 202100672 · 26 Aug 2022
Complaint: Estate Management
The resident’s complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reported defects in her property including the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of damage caused to her property and personal belongings by contractors. The landlord’s response to the …
Case 201906959 · 26 Aug 2022
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about landlord's response to the resident’s request: to run a business from her property; for the landlord to waive its fees for the sale of the property.
Case 202125794 · 26 Aug 2022
Stafford & Rural Homes (202110240) Partial Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the: resident’s reports of the outstanding repairs required to the property resident’s request to be transferred. the related complaint.
Case 202110240 · 25 Aug 2022
LiveWest Homes Limited (202202129) Outside Jurisdiction
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint concerns information about the ‘right to buy’ provided by the landlord when the property was let to the resident and their accepting the tenancy understanding that they had the ‘right to buy’ the property.
Case 202202129 · 24 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition categories
The complaint is about the standard and quality of work carried out at the property, including to the bathroom and kitchen.
Case 202109511 · 24 Aug 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s attempts to access the resident’s property to carry out an inspection. The landlord’s handling of the complaint.
Case 202110871 · 24 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
This complaint is about how the landlord responded to the resident’s concerns about the roofing works to her building, including: The removal of asbestos roof tiles and damage to potentially asbestos containing materials in her ceiling. Her request that the …
Case 202108830 · 24 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports of subsidence at the property. Associated repair issues believed to be caused by the subsidence.
Case 202109799 · 23 Aug 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports about a leak into the property. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202115349 · 23 Aug 2022
Haringey Council (202107523) Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of damp and mould at the property, and its handling of associated repairs.
Case 202107523 · 23 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202112342 · 23 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202101814 · 22 Aug 2022
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 …
Case 202104410 · 22 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202125471 · 21 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202116488 · 19 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202005143 · 19 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202125240 · 19 Aug 2022
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 …
Case 202113087 · 18 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202102546 · 17 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202108007 · 17 Aug 2022
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
Case 202105526 · 17 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202113535 · 17 Aug 2022
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 …
Case 202120265 · 17 Aug 2022
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled repairs to the ceilings in the property.
Case 202120284 · 17 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202114965 · 16 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202012489 · 16 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202016218 · 16 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202118163 · 16 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202113445 · 16 Aug 2022
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 …
Case 202101362 · 15 Aug 2022
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.
Case 202121309 · 15 Aug 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about its handling of ventilation repairs in her property. The landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202111942 · 12 Aug 2022
Leeds City Council (202106197) Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of repairs at the property. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
Case 202106197 · 12 Aug 2022
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s: handling of a rat infestation; response to the resident’s request for garden works; handling of various reported repairs to the property’s plumbing and heating systems; handling of the resident’s concerns around anti-social behaviour (ASB); …
Case 202103674 · 12 Aug 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Response to the resident’s reports about the condition of the windows at the property. Complaints handling.
Case 202106094 · 12 Aug 2022
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of repairs following a fire at the property below the resident. Specifically, the complaint relates to: The landlord’s handling of works to the resident’s floorboards. The landlord’s handling of repairs to the ceiling …
Case 202111440 · 11 Aug 2022