Performance summary based on published UK Housing Ombudsman determinations. Figures reflect
only complaints that reached a formal determination and are not a complete measure of service.
Key statistics
Decisions
34
Published determinations
Maladministration rate
59%
Decisions with an adverse finding
Severe maladministration
1
Most serious findings
Compensation ordered
£8,799
Total across decisions
Adverse findings
20
Decisions against
Outcome breakdown
Count of outcomes reached across complaint heads in 34
published decisions.
No maladministration11
Reasonable redress1
Service failure10
Maladministration15
Severe maladministration1
Mediation / settlement1
Outside jurisdiction9
Haringey Council's maladministration rate (59%) is lower than the average for local authority / almo / tmo (71%) across published Ombudsman determinations.
The Ombudsman found no maladministration in the landlord's response to reports of anti-social behaviour, as it took reasonable steps including warning letters and support referrals. However, there was service failure…
The landlord accepted service failure regarding damp and mould repairs but then took over two years to complete the works, missed appointments, failed to communicate, kept poor records, and miscalculated its…
The Ombudsman found service failure by Haringey Council in its handling of a resident's reports of a leak from her shower. The landlord took too long to resolve the issue (October 2019 to March 2020) and failed to…
The Ombudsman found maladministration in the landlord's handling of contact restrictions. The landlord unfairly refused three complaints for not using the SPOC without properly applying its UCC policy. While…
The Ombudsman found service failure in the landlord's handling of repairs following a leak, due to inconsistent record-keeping and lack of clarity about what work was completed. Maladministration was found in the…
The Ombudsman found no maladministration by Haringey Council in its response to the resident's reports of noise nuisance and ASB, and in its decision to decline the resident's request for a management transfer. The…
The Ombudsman found maladministration by Haringey Council for its handling of a leaseholder's reports of a water leak from the property above, which took nearly 10 months to resolve, and for its handling of the…
The Ombudsman determined the complaint about the Council's assessment of the resident's housing application (banding priority) was outside its jurisdiction, as it falls properly within the jurisdiction of the Local…
The Ombudsman found no maladministration in the landlord's response to the resident's concerns about fire safety works at her leasehold property, as the landlord followed proper consultation procedures and kept the…
The Ombudsman found maladministration by Haringey Council in its response to a leaseholder's reports of disrepair to a bathroom 'pod' extension. While the landlord carried out inspections and assessed temporary…
The Ombudsman found maladministration by Haringey Council regarding its response to a roof leak, its compensation offer, and delays to remedial works. While the landlord attended to the leak and offered £200…
The Ombudsman found maladministration by Haringey Council for delays in responding to the resident's August 2020 repair report, including a three-month gap before inspection, a one-month delay in communicating the…
The Ombudsman determined the complaint was outside its jurisdiction. The complaint about property suitability was raised too late (17 years after the tenancy began) and concerns local authority housing allocation, which…
The Ombudsman found maladministration by Haringey Council for its handling of a leaseholder's reports of rainwater ingress. The landlord took approximately seven months to complete external repairs, failed to keep…
The Ombudsman determined the complaint was outside its jurisdiction because the disputed parking space was not part of the resident's tenancy agreement and therefore did not concern the resident's occupation of their…
The Ombudsman found service failure by Haringey Council in its response to a leaseholder's reports of antisocial behaviour. While the landlord took reasonable practical steps (repairing the communal door, arranging…
The Ombudsman determined the complaint was outside its jurisdiction because the garages were rented under separate commercial agreements, not forming part of the resident's leasehold occupancy of their home.
The Ombudsman found that the landlord offered reasonable redress for delays in repairing roof and bathroom leaks (£400 compensation), but found maladministration for repeated delays in handling the resident's reports of…
The Housing Ombudsman determined that the complaint about the Council's handling of the resident's re-housing/transfer request falls outside its jurisdiction because it concerns an application under Part 6 of the…
The Ombudsman found severe maladministration for the landlord's handling of reports of leaks, damp and mould, and maladministration for its complaint handling and record keeping. The landlord failed to communicate…
The Ombudsman found maladministration by Haringey Council for failing to properly handle kitchen upgrade works (not responding to health and safety concerns or a layout change request for over 18 months) and for failing…
The Ombudsman found service failure by Haringey Council in its response to a leaseholder's reports of wastewater upsurges in her kitchen sink. There were delays in clearing blocked drains, the complaint response did not…
The Ombudsman found maladministration for the landlord's excessive 17-month delay in handling repairs to the resident's guttering, roof and windowsill, and service failure for its unreasonable delay in responding to the…
The Ombudsman found no maladministration by Haringey Council regarding its request for a leaseholder to remove a security grille from her front door. The landlord's request was reasonable, based on fire safety guidance,…
The Ombudsman found maladministration by Haringey Council for its handling of a resident's reports of damp and mould (unreasonable delay, poor record-keeping, failure to address compensation request) and a mouse…
The Ombudsman found no maladministration in the landlord's handling of ASB reports between November 2019 and July 2020, and no maladministration in its response to a water supply issue in November 2019. Two other…
The Ombudsman found no maladministration across all five complaint heads: handling of ASB reports, response to soundproofing request, complaint handling (despite a significant stage-one delay), delay in replacing…
The Ombudsman found service failure in the landlord's handling of the resident's rent account. While the landlord's overall investigation and £25 compensation credit were reasonable, it failed at stage two to address…
The Housing Ombudsman determined that both complaints — about repairs to the lift, heating and hot water in temporary accommodation, and about the resident's housing status/banding on the choice based letting scheme —…
The Ombudsman declined to investigate the resident's complaint about the level of compensation offered for the impact of anti-social behaviour on her health and wellbeing, as the historic issues fell outside the…
The Ombudsman resolved the complaint through mediation after the landlord agreed to offer the resident a property matching their specified criteria when one becomes available, which the resident accepted as a…
The Ombudsman found no maladministration by Haringey Council regarding its handling of issues reported by a resident about the impact of an intergenerational living project in a sheltered housing block. The landlord…
The Ombudsman found no maladministration in the landlord's handling of a reported gas leak, as it carried out appropriate inspections and reasonably concluded there was no carbon monoxide leak. However, there was…
The Ombudsman found no maladministration by Haringey Council in its response to the resident's reports of a leak from the property above. The landlord acknowledged service failure for a missed appointment, paid £10…
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