Complaints

Making complaints count

We're committed to a positive complaints 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 teams are on hand to support you throughout the complaints process. 

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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 Customer Service 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?

  • Complaints where the issue occurred over twelve 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
  • A service request; when we have been asked to take action and put something right (which we have not previously failed to address)
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Our commitment to complaints

We are committed to a positive complaint handling culture and are members of the Housing Ombudsman Scheme. The Housing Ombudsman Service is a fair and impartial service which was set up by law to look at complaints about housing organisations that are registered with them.

The Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code 2024 sets out requirements to ensure we respond to complaints effectively and fairly.

We have carried out a self-assessment against the Complaint Handling Code and produced an Annual Complaints Performance and Service Improvement report.

Read our self-assessment here
Read our Complaints Report here

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.

Make a complaint

Contacting the Housing Ombudsman

Your complaint can be referred to the Housing Ombudsman once it has exhausted our two stage complaints process, but further guidance and advice on their services can be found here (https://www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/residents/)

Contact details for the Housing Ombudsman are: