Weaver Vale Housing Trust
Housing association.
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Rents out about 6,423 homes in England. This is the number of tenants in rented homes it counted for its 2025/26 tenant survey.
Source: [4]
The regulator's grade
C1
The Regulator of Social Housing checks how well landlords treat tenants. It gave Weaver Vale Housing Trust grade C1 on 28 August 2024.
C1 means the landlord is doing what the regulator expects. Grades go from C1 (best) to C4 (worst).
Source: [1]
How it compares
We compared Weaver Vale Housing Trust with 118 similar landlords: housing associations and for-profit landlords, 1,000 to 9,999 homes. These are tenants' answers to the 2025/26 survey and the landlord's own records.
Overall satisfaction: 88.3% of tenants were happy with the service. That puts it in the top quarter of similar landlords.
Repairs and homes: in the top quarter. ↑ Up from upper middle in 2024/25.
Being heard: in the top quarter.
Neighbourhood: in the top quarter.
Top quarter means it did better than at least three in four similar landlords. Bottom quarter means it did worse than at least three in four.
Source: [4]
Complaints to the Housing Ombudsman
In 2025-26, the Housing Ombudsman looked at complaints about Weaver Vale Housing Trust Limited. It made 12 findings. It found the landlord at fault in 42% of them. It ordered or recommended £1,803 in compensation.
From October 2025 the Ombudsman looks at how complaints were handled in every case. So these figures are not comparable with earlier years.
Source: [2]
Safety checks
All done. Every home that needed a gas, fire, asbestos, water or lift safety check had one (as at 31 March 2026).
Source: [4]
The figures, 2025/26
| Measure | Figure | Among similar landlords |
|---|---|---|
| Repairs and homes | ||
| Satisfied with repairs | 87.3% | top quarter |
| Satisfied with how long the last repair took | 86.4% | top quarter |
| Satisfied the home is well maintained | 82.9% | upper middle |
| Homes that don't meet the Decent Homes Standard | 0.0% | top quarter |
| Non-emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time | 90.4% | upper middle |
| Emergency repairs done within the landlord's target time | 99.8% | top quarter |
| Being heard | ||
| Satisfied the landlord listens and acts | 81.2% | top quarter |
| Satisfied the landlord keeps them informed | 89.3% | top quarter |
| Agree the landlord treats them fairly and with respect | 90.9% | top quarter |
| Satisfied with how complaints are handled | 51.5% | top quarter |
| First-stage complaints answered in time | 100.0% | top quarter |
| Second-stage complaints answered in time | 100.0% | top quarter |
| Neighbourhood | ||
| Satisfied communal areas are clean and well kept | 79.9% | top quarter |
| Satisfied the landlord helps the neighbourhood | 83.7% | top quarter |
| Satisfied with how anti-social behaviour is handled | 80.0% | top quarter |
| Shown but not compared | ||
| Satisfied the home is safe | 88.5% | |
| First-stage complaints per 1,000 homes | 31.0 | |
| Second-stage complaints per 1,000 homes | 5.4 | |
| Anti-social behaviour cases per 1,000 homes | 75.7 | |
| Anti-social behaviour cases involving hate incidents per 1,000 homes | 0.6 | |
Source: [4]
Where it has homes
Homes it owns in each council area, 31 March 2026. We added up the figures for each company in the group.
- Cheshire West and Chester: 6,056
- Cheshire East: 289
- Warrington: 78
Source: [3]
Where these figures come from
Every figure on this page comes from one of these published files. We do not change them.
- Regulator of Social Housing, Regulatory Judgements and Enforcement Notices Table (current). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Housing Ombudsman Service, Landlords performance data tables ( xlsx ) ( xlsx, 0.4 MB) (2025-26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. © Housing Ombudsman Service; reuse terms being confirmed.
- Regulator of Social Housing, Private registered providers data release (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Regulator of Social Housing, Tenant Satisfaction Measures Full Dataset (2025/26). The file, fetched 2026-11-06. Open Government Licence v3.0.