Alongside binding orders, the independent housing watchdog can make recommendations — suggestions the landlord should follow but isn't forced to. This counts those in a year. It matters as the softer half of the remedy picture: compared with orders, a recommendation-heavy mix suggests the watchdog saw room to improve rather than harm that had to be compulsorily fixed.
| name | ho_recommendations |
|---|---|
| dataset | 09-ombudsman-lgsco |
| kind | extracted |
| type | count |
| unit | recommendations/year |
| grain | landlord-year |
| role | feature |
| source | data/housing-ombudsman/Tables-for-landlords-with-individual-performance-reports-2024-25.xlsx, sheet `Table 1`, column `Recommendations` |
| period | 2024-25 |
| missingness | Table rows exist only for landlords with 5+ findings in 2024-25 — treat absence as missing, not zero. Join to LGSCO/TSM data is by landlord name and lossy (ALMO/association names don't match council names). |
| score_note | Advisory-remedy count; weak signal alone and near-duplicate of the orders variables. |
| peer_group | registered landlords (RSH-regulated, 1,000+ homes) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Non-binding recommendations made to the landlord. Softer than orders; useful alongside ho_orders_made to see the mix of mandatory versus advisory remedies.