Complaints and compliments

Make a complaint about a council service, requests for service, our complaints procedure and what happens after you submit a complaint, how to give a compliment.

Request for service

Complaints may be made for many reasons, including:

  • failure to provide a service
  • inadequate standard of service

A routine first-time request for a service to be delivered is not a complaint, although we often receive requests of this nature through our complaints process.

If you are telling us about something for the first time

If you are telling us about something for the first time, please give us the opportunity to put things right before complaining. First contact the local service directly.

There are many ways in which you can contact us to request a service. Here are some of the most common reasons for requests for service which we often receive as complaints: