Go to homepage
Login to MyPlace

Customer Feedback Information

We are committed to being transparent with customers, colleagues and stakeholders about compliments, complaints and feedback that we receive. Complaints can be an opportunity to learn and change the way we work to benefit all customers.

On this page we provide updates of the numbers of complaints and how they have influenced the service we provide, as well as providing legacy information so you can see changes over time.

Latest complaints

Complaint figures April 2023 to March 2024

Complaints – you said, we listened

(December 2023)

Customers told us

  • Sometimes repairs are being refused by defect contractors, and Great Places is not seeking further opinions about the repairs required.

How we used your feedback

  • Great Places will always seek a second opinion/complete inspections following customers’ reports of defect repairs.

Customers told us

  • Customers told us that it is that they are not clear on what to expect and are not sure about timescales for our services.

How we have used your feedback

  • We have published customer commitments on our website which clarify service timescales.

Customers told us

  • Sometimes appointments are missed and customers are not always told about changes to agreed appointments.

How we have used your feedback

  • We are reviewing our communication and working closely with our Hub colleagues to ensure we keep customers up to date about any changes to agreed appointments.

Customers told us

  • Some of our customers have said they don’t find it easy to make a complaint when something goes wrong.

How we have used your feedback

  • Our new Customer Feedback Group has reviewed our web pages and made some recommendations to our communication team to help with customer experience.

Our Top 5 Complaints and how we deal with them

Whenever we receive formal complaints we follow the procedure below:

  • Case review involving relevant colleagues
  • Looking at systems and all records related to the complaint
  • Speaking with the customer to clarify the exact nature of complaint
  • Thorough investigations across each relevant area of the business
  • Always learn from complaint and ensure actions/agreements are progressed.

 

When you make a complaint, we have up to 5 working days to formally acknowledge stage 1 complaints and 10 working days to investigate, review and respond. If within 15 working days of receiving our response you remain dissatisfied, you can contact us and request to the complaint to stage 2 of the process.

From receiving the stage 2 request, we have 3-5 working days to review the reasons for escalation, assign the case to a senior manager and acknowledge the complaint with you. The reviewing manager will have 20 working days to investigate, review and respond to you.

Should you still remain dissatisfied, they can refer their complaint to the Housing Ombudsman Service who will review and progress it in-line with the Complaints Handling Code.

Below you can see the top 5 complaints across the past 6 months:

  • Poor Quality Service (253)
  • Failure to Provide Service (80)
  • Delay to Repair (36)
  • Missed Appointment (14)
  • Behaviour (1)

Complaints data archive

This archive allows you to easily find our older complaints data split by quarters within a financial year:

  • Q1 (Quarter 1): April-June
  • Q2 (Quarter 2): July-September
  • Q3 (Quarter 3): October-December
  • Q4 (Quarter 4): January – March

 

2023-2024

Region Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 YTD
Central 93 (8) 123 (9) 54 (2) 270 (19)
East 39 (3) 37 (1) 19 (1) 95 (5)
North 65 (2) 71 (9) 32 (0) 168 (11)
South 113 (6) 169 (15) 68 (3) 350 (24)
I&W 12 (0) 16 (0) 5 (1) 33 (1)
Plumlife 9 (1) 13 (1) 3 (0) 25 (2)
Oldham PFI 0 (0) 4 (0) 1 (0) 5 (0)
Year to date 331 (20) 433 (35) 182 (7) 946 (62)

* Figures in brackets are stage 2 complaints