Housing complaints

If you have a problem with your council housing, you can make a complaint. Find out more about the process on our complaints page.

If we are unable to resolve the issue, you can contact the Housing Ombudsman. They will investigate complaints about:

  • housing management
  • repairs
  • leaseholder complaints
  • transfers
  • mutual exchanges

For unresolved problems with housing allocations or the Housing Register, you need to contact the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman. The Housing Ombudsman has a Complaint Handling Code. Landlords must carry out an assessment each year against this mandatory code. As part of the code we are required to complete a self assessment against the complaint handling code, produce a complaint performance and service improvement report and present this to councillors at Cabinet.

Social housing complaints

The Make things right website guides tenants through the stages of a complaint and includes a video with British Sign language.

Visit the Make things right website to find out how to make a complaint

You can watch the know how to complain You Tube video with British Sign Language from the Make things right website.