Latest regulatory judgement published

29th Apr 2026

Following an inspection carried out in January 2026 the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has today published their latest Regulatory Judgement for Newlon.

The regulator has graded us as:

G1 (Governance).

C2 (Consumer) – for the standard of services provided to residents.

V2  (Viability).

Overall, we consider this to be a positive set of findings, which accurately reflect our performance while taking into account the challenges we currently face.

Governance and viability

Our governance and viability results were unchanged from our previous regular stability checks. This means that we have continued to maintain the highest level of governance. The V2 viability rating reflects that Newlon has borrowed significant amounts of money to develop new affordable housing, is spending millions of pounds to remediate cladding issues and the investment required to regenerate the Barnsbury Estate. It also takes into account that we have clear oversight of these risks and steps in place to manage them over the long term.

Services to residents

This is the first time we have been awarded a C grading since the introduction of this standard as part of new regulatory approach in April 2024.

C2 means that our performance is fully compliant with the Regulator’s expectations with some areas where we need to improve.

In response to the regulator’s findings our Chair, Aman Dalvi OBE, said:

“Good governance is at the very heart of navigating challenges and risks and I am pleased that during our inspection, the RSH saw strong evidence of this. It’s also pleasing that the strength of our resident engagement is recognised in this judgement, as well the numerous ways residents can influence change. However, we know, and our residents certainly know, that our repairs service isn’t and hasn’t been good enough. It’s improving quickly, with good work by our teams in partnership with residents and backed by strong Board oversight in the past year.

“Newlon has long been ambitious for the communities it exists to serve. We have been big developers in North and East London and now have a sizeable remediation programme due to the previous failures of developers and are also undertaking a major regeneration project at our Barnsbury Estate near Kings Cross. We are confident of delivering both well.

 “I’d like to thank the RSH for the way they engaged with Newlon during the inspection. It was a thorough and fair process.”

You can find the full regulatory judgement at www.gov.uk/government/collections/regulatory-judgements-a-to-z-list-of-landlords.