Tenant satisfaction measures

Find out how customers rate our services and where we’re making improvements.

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What you need to know

Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs) show how well we’re delivering our homes and services. Set by the Regulator of Social Housing, they combine customer feedback with performance data so you can see how we’re doing and where we need to improve.

What are Tenant Satisfaction Measures?

The Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs) assess how well social landlords are delivering homes and services for their customers. They cover areas such as overall satisfaction, repairs, building safety, complaint handling, neighbourhood management and how customers are treated.

The measures combine customer feedback with information we already collect about our performance, helping to provide a balanced view of the customer experience.

What do our results tell us?

Our TSM results help us understand what we are doing well and where we need to improve. We use the findings to inform service improvements, shape priorities and monitor our progress over time.

As all social landlords now report against the same measures, the results also help customers compare performance across the sector.

How do we collect customer feedback?

We run a customer perception survey throughout the year to understand how customers feel about the services we provide. The survey is carried out independently by our research partner, IFF Research, who contact a randomly selected sample of customers by phone or email.

The survey includes a set of questions required by the Regulator of Social Housing, these questions must be asked using specific wording and in a set order so that results can be compared fairly across housing providers.

The feedback we receive helps us understand what's working well, identify areas for improvement, and inform decisions about our services.

Find out more about our approach:

How we use your feedback

Listening to customers is central to how we improve. Feedback gathered through our TSM surveys helps us identify areas for improvement, shape investment decisions and ensure customer priorities are reflected in our plans and services.

Where customers tell us they are dissatisfied, we use those insights to better understand issues and take action where improvements are needed.

How we’re performing

These results show our 2025/26 performance in England. Riverside Scotland is reported separately under Scottish regulations.

Understanding our results:

The large percentage is our overall result. Where relevant, we also show:

  • LCRA – rented homes, including social, supported, retirement living and intermediate rent
  • LCHO – shared ownership homes

How satisfied are our customers?

Our Tenant Satisfaction Measures show how customers feel about the overall service they receive from Riverside. The results below show our overall satisfaction score, with a breakdown by customer type.

66.9% 

Breakdown
LCRA: 69.5%  |  LCHO: 35.7%

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Keeping properties in good repair

*Based on LCRA only

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* emergency repairs target timescales are 1-4 hours for most urgent works or 12-24 hours. Non-emergency repair target timescales are 20 working days or 40 working days.

Our plan for improving repairs in 2026/27

We want you to have a safe, good-quality home that is well maintained. Here’s what we’re doing to improve. 

Our commitment to you and your home

Improving the quality of your home

We’re taking a whole-home approach to investment. This means planning improvements together wherever possible, rather than treating them as separate pieces of work. This includes improvements to heating, lifts, electrical systems and shared areas, as well as raising the standard of empty homes before new customers move in.

Keeping homes and buildings safe

Your safety is our priority. We’ll continue our work to improve fire, building and electrical safety, including our cladding programme. We’ll also make safety information clearer and make sure you know where to go if you need help or advice.

Providing a better repairs service

We know how important it is to get repairs right. We’re working to fix more repairs on the first visit, keep appointments and reduce the need for repeat visits. We’ll also provide clearer information and keep you updated about your repair.

Making homes healthier and more energy efficient

We’re working to make homes warmer, healthier and more energy efficient, including improving homes towards an EPC C rating where possible. We’ll also continue tackling damp, mould, overheating and poor ventilation, while planning how we can reduce carbon emissions over the longer term.

Listening to you and keeping you informed

We want you to have a say in the decisions that affect your home. We’ll provide more opportunities for you to share your views and help shape our services and investment plans. We’ll also make information about repairs, planned work, building safety and investment clearer and easier to access.


Maintaining building safety

*Based on LCRA & LCHO

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Our plan for improving building safety in 2026/27

We want you to feel safe in your home and confident in the services we provide. We’re improving building safety, repairs and communication, while making sure your feedback helps shape what we do. 

Our commitment to keeping you safe and informed

Improving repairs in shared areas

We’re improving how we manage repairs in communal areas. Our focus is on fixing more problems first time, making appointments easier and giving you clearer information and updates.

Keeping buildings safe

We’ll continue important building safety work, including our cladding programme. We’ll also improve how we explain building safety, so it’s easier to understand the work we’re doing to keep you safe.

Listening and communicating better

We’ll give you more opportunities to share your views through surveys, events and other activities. We’ll also make building safety information clearer, more accessible and easier to understand.

Looking after shared areas

Clean, well-maintained communal areas can make a big difference to where you live. We’ll work across our neighbourhood and grounds maintenance teams to improve these areas, using your feedback to help us decide where improvements are needed.

Learning from your feedback

Your feedback helps us improve. We’ll strengthen the way we manage enquiries and complaints and share regular ‘You said, we did’ updates, so you can see the changes your feedback has helped to make.


Respectful and helpful engagement

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Our plan for improving neighbourhoods in 2026/27

We want you to feel safe and comfortable where you live. We know anti-social behaviour (ASB), hate incidents and other community safety concerns can have a real impact on you and your neighbourhood.

Our Community Safety Team works with the police, local authorities and other organisations to respond to concerns, support customers and help make neighbourhoods safer.

What have we done so far?

Working more closely with our partners

We’re working more closely with the police, local authorities and community safety organisations. By sharing information and working together, we can respond more effectively to local concerns.

Taking action to keep customers safe

Where action is needed, we work with our partners to reduce harm and tackle anti-social behaviour. This can include supporting customers affected by ASB and taking appropriate action against those responsible.

Being more visible in your neighbourhood

Our teams are spending more time in local communities through neighbourhood walkabouts, drop-in sessions and local events. This gives you more opportunities to speak to us face-to-face, raise concerns and find out about support.

Supporting customers experiencing domestic abuse

Our specialist Community Safety Team provides practical safety measures and advice for customers who need support, alongside clear ways to raise concerns and ask for help.

Improving how we deal with ASB

We’ve provided more training to help colleagues identify, record and manage ASB cases, so customers can get the right support as early as possible.

What are we doing next?

More visits to your neighbourhood

We’ll continue visiting neighbourhoods, particularly where customers have raised concerns. We’ll listen to you, identify problems early and work with our partners to take appropriate action.

Local action plans

We’ll work with customers and local teams to understand what matters most in different neighbourhoods and develop local action plans to address these priorities.

Improving how we manage cases

We’ll keep improving how we record and manage concerns, communicate with you and train our colleagues. Our aim is to provide a more consistent service and keep you informed about your case.

Making it easier to get help

We’ll make information clearer about how to report a concern, the support available and what you can expect from us.

We know there’s always more we can do. We’ll keep listening to you and working with our partners to help create neighbourhoods where you feel safe, supported and proud to live.


Effective handling of complaints

*calculated as the number of complaints per 1,000 homes.

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Our plan for improving complaints in 2026/27

We're committed to learning from complaints and improving our services. Read our Complaints Annual Report to see what we're doing and what we'll be focusing on over the coming year.

Read our complaints improvement plan

Responsible neighbourhood management

*calculated as the number of ASB cases per 1,000 homes.

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Our plan for improving customer engagement in 2026/27

More customers are getting involved and helping us shape our services. We’ve made progress, but we know we need to do more to show you how your feedback leads to real change. 

Making your voice count

Showing you what changes because of your feedback

We’ll share clearer ‘You said, we did, what changed’ updates during 2026/27. We’ll also improve how we track feedback and recommendations from customer panels, reviews and consultations, so you can see how your views influence our services and priorities.

Providing more ways to get involved

We’ll create more opportunities for you to have your say, particularly in your local community. We’ll also improve the training and support available to customers who get involved.

Making our performance easier to understand

We’ll explain our performance, including our TSM results, in a clearer and simpler way. This will help you see how we’re doing, ask questions and challenge us where we need to improve.

Using your feedback to improve services

We’ll look at feedback, complaints, satisfaction surveys, TSM results and other information together. This will help us understand where problems are happening, why they’re happening and where we need to focus our improvements.

Sharing clearer information

We’ll make information about our performance easier to find and understand. We’ll also explain more about TSMs and why they matter.

Most importantly, we want you to be able to see that when you give us feedback, we listen, learn and take action.

How customers feel in your area

Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs) give us an overall picture of how customers feel about our services. We also break down the results by region, so you can see how experiences differ across the country and how we’re performing in the areas where our customers live.

See your local results

Previous performance

Take a look at what customers have told us in the past.

2024-25

Overall satisfaction

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP01: Overall satisfaction 66.6% 34.1%  64.1%

Keeping properties in good repair

These measures apply only for Low Cost Rented Accommodation.

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP02: Satisfied with the overall repairs service  70.0% - -
TP03: Satisfied with the time taken to complete most recent repair  67.5% - -
TP04: Satisfied that home is well maintained 66.8% - -
RP01: Percentage of homes that do not meet the Decent Homes Standard  0.5% - -
RP02(1): Proportion of non-emergency responsive repairs completed within the landlord’s target timescale 86.1% - -
RP02(2): Proportion of emergency responsive repairs completed within the landlord’s target timescale 76.1% - -

Maintaining building safety

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP05: Satisfied that their home is safe 74.5% 55.3% 73.2%
BS01: Proportion of homes for which all required gas safety checks have been carried out 99.7% 97.1% 99.7%
BS02: Proportion of homes for which all required fire risk assessments have been carried out 99.7% 99.8% 99.7%
BS03: Proportion of homes for which all required asbestos management surveys or re-inspections have been carried out 98.6% 84.7% 98.5%
BS04: Proportion of homes for which all required legionella risk assessments have been carried out 99.5% 99.6% 99.5%
BS05: Proportion of homes for which all required communal passenger lift safety checks have been carried out 99.1% 94.7% 98.6%

Respectful and helpful engagement

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP06: Satisfied that resident views are listened to and acted upon  58.6% 24.2% 56.1%
TP07: Satisfied we keep residents informed about things that matter to them 67.3% 41.8% 65.3%
TP08: Agree we treat residents fairly and with respect  73.1% 44.6% 71.0%

Effective handling of complaints

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP09: Satisfaction with approach to handling complaints  33.8% 12.5% 31.8%
CH01(1): Number of stage one complaints received per 1,000 homes 88.6 100.3 89.5
CH01(2): Number of stage two complaints received per 1,000 homes  17.9 31.8 19.0
CH02(1): Proportion of stage one complaints responded to within the Housing Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code timescales 65.4% 43.1% 63.4%
CH02(2): Proportion of stage two complaints responded to within the Housing Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code timescales. 51.5% 48.2% 51.1%

Responsible neighbourhood management

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP10: Satisfaction with the cleanliness and maintenance of communal areas  62.9% 37.4% 60.5%
TP11: Satisfaction with our contribution to the neighbourhood 57.7% 30.8% 55.7%
TP12: Satisfaction with our approach to handling of antisocial behaviour  55.1% 28.6% 53.4%
NM01(1): Number of anti-social behaviour cases, opened per 1,000 homes  51.3 17.6 48.6
NM01(2): Number of anti-social behaviour cases that involve hate incidents opened per 1,000 homes 0.9 0.8 0.9

We also break down the results by region, so you can see how experiences differ across the country and how we’re performing in the areas where our customers live.

See your local results

2023-24

Overall satisfaction

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP01: Overall satisfaction68.0%33.3% 65.3%

Keeping properties in good repair

These measures apply only for Low Cost Rented Accommodation.

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP02: Satisfied with the overall repairs service 70.9%--
TP03: Satisfied with the time taken to complete most recent repair 67.2%--
TP04: Satisfied that home is well maintained67.6%--
RP01: Percentage of homes that do not meet the Decent Homes Standard 0.1%--
RP02(1): Proportion of non-emergency responsive repairs completed within the landlord’s target timescale83.3%--
RP02(2): Proportion of emergency responsive repairs completed within the landlord’s target timescale85.7%--

Maintaining building safety

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP05: Satisfied that their home is safe76.2%57.5%74.9%
BS01: Proportion of homes for which all required gas safety checks have been carried out98.6%88.2%98.5%
BS02: Proportion of homes for which all required fire risk assessments have been carried out99.0%98.4%99.0%
BS03: Proportion of homes for which all required asbestos management surveys or re-inspections have been carried out99.3%93.2%99.2%
BS04: Proportion of homes for which all required legionella risk assessments have been carried out99.9%100.0%99.9%
BS05: Proportion of homes for which all required communal passenger lift safety checks have been carried out95.9%89.4%95.1%

Respectful and helpful engagement

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP06: Satisfied that resident views are listened to and acted upon 58.2%23.9%55.7%
TP07: Satisfied we keep residents informed about things that matter to them67.8%40.4%65.7%
TP08: Agree we treat residents fairly and with respect 72.7%43.6%70.6%

Effective handling of complaints

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP09: Satisfaction with approach to handling complaints 35.2%16.0%33.5%
CH01(1): Number of stage one complaints received per 1,000 homes128.2100.4126.0
CH01(2): Number of stage two complaints received per 1,000 homes 18.421.218.6
CH02(1): Proportion of stage one complaints responded to within the Housing Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code timescales77.6%80.3%77.8%
CH02(2): Proportion of stage two complaints responded to within the Housing Ombudsman’s Complaint Handling Code timescales.75.5%88.8%76.7%

Responsible neighbourhood management

TSM Survey QuestionLCRALCHOCombined
TP10: Satisfaction with the cleanliness and maintenance of communal areas 62.6%41.2%60.6%
TP11: Satisfaction with our contribution to the neighbourhood58.3%29.9%56.2%
TP12: Satisfaction with our approach to handling of antisocial behaviour 57.5%25.2%55.4%
NM01(1): Number of anti-social behaviour cases, opened per 1,000 homes 55.120.252.3
NM01(2): Number of anti-social behaviour cases that involve hate incidents opened per 1,000 homes0.60.00.6