Making complaints count
We are committed to a positive complaint handling culture, making it simple and easy for you to get your concerns resolved.
Our complaints policy sets out our commitment to you and our local Tenant Voice Teams are on hand to support you throughout the complaint process. Find out more below.
What we promise
- You (or your representative) can tell us about your complaint in a way that is convenient to you (see below).
- We will acknowledge and log your complaint within five working days of receipt.
- Our Tenant Voice Team, will talk to you to try and agree a fair resolution to your complaint within 10 working days (or advise you if they can’t).
- We will regularly communicate and monitor any outstanding actions through to completion.
- A simple two stage process means you’ll have the opportunity to escalate if you are unhappy with our response to your complaint.
- We will advise you if and why we are unable to deal with your matter as a complaint.
What's excluded?
There are some things that we do not consider to be a complaint:
- Complaints where the issue occurred over six months ago
- Something we have no control over such as Local Authority property allocations
- Complaints that have already been considered under our complaints process
- Insurance claims for damages and/or legal proceedings (associated complaints regarding service failures are not excluded in these cases)
- Matters already being dealt with by the Ombudsman service
How we're doing
We measure our performance on an ongoing basis, and below you can find our quarterly complaints performance results.
January - March 2024
A total of 215 complaints received (January - March 2024)
This is 29 less than last quarter
Delay in service
(111 complaints)
Lack of communication
(47 complaints)
Missed appointment
(14 complaints)
97.8% were responded to within 10 working days
1.4% less than last quarter
17 complaints were escalated to stage two
That is seven more than last quarter
The top theme for escalated complaints was delay in service/action
We received one determination
Learning & improvements driven by complaints and customer feedback
Improvements have been made to our text messaging service to make sure you know when we're coming to complete a repair. This includes messaging you when we've needed to rearrange your appointment as well as messaging you to let you know that our engineer is on route.
How to make a complaint
If you have a complaint about the standard of our service, actions or lack of action, our staff or those acting on our behalf we will deal with your issue as a formal complaint.
We want to make it as easy as possible, and you can do it in a way that suits you, and we will make any reasonable adjustments to help make things easier.
Report a neighbourhood issue
If you'd like to report or complain about something happening in your community, your neighbours or anti-social behaviour, please don’t use the complaints form. Click the link below to be taken to our ASB form so we can help you with these issues.
You can also let us know about domestic abuse happening in your home or in your neighbourhood here.
Our commitment to complaints
We are committed to a positive complaint handling culture and are members of the Housing Ombudsman Scheme. The scheme enables tenants have complaints about members investigated by a Housing Ombudsman and aims to resolve disputes.
The Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code sets out requirements to allow us to respond to complaints effectively and fairly. Our Self-Assessment against the Complaint Handling Code can be found here.
Contacting the Ombudsman
Your complaint can be referred to the Housing Ombudsman once it has exhausted our two stage complaints process, but further guidance and advise on their services can be found here (https://www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/residents/)
Contact details for the Housing Ombudsman are:
- Online complaint form: www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/residents/make-a-complaint/
- Phone: 0300 111 3000
- Email: info@housing-ombudsman.org.uk