Ealing Council Offices Reviews Summary

Category: Council London

Address: 14 Uxbridge Rd, London, W5 2HL, United Kingdom

Phone: +442088255000

Rating: 1.3
based on 521 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "The Amey team inside the site are always helpful and professional and are able to deal with the public correctly."
  • "Today morning, Mrs. Yewande from the council tax department was absolutely kind, helpful and professional as did help me go throughout my council tax account which I wasn't able to access as there was always an error and explained me the whole process until the end."
  • "I spoke with Georgina and Robb from the Registrars Department, who answered my queries promptly and in the most courteous manner."
  • "Customer service can be touch and go, I normally request a call back and within 30 minutes they get back to you fairly quick and resolve most of my issues there and then."
  • "Donna helped me a lot in finding accommodation She gave me a list of furniture agents after sending a few emails I got a positive response after only a few days from a furniture agent I visited the property the next day I had the keys to my new studio thank you very much for your great help god bless you"
  • "Had to call the Council regarding a delayed Council Tax payment. I had a conversation with Yewande who answered my call, and she was patient with hearing the condition and suggesting a resolution."
  • "Your best bet is to use the call back service, you'll still have to listen to a load of automated messages, but I did get a friendly and helpful chap call be back after about 1 hour."

Cons:

  • "Worst customer service in London."
  • "Everytime I had an issue they had irony in their voices and became upset without reason."
  • "Just called Ealing Council to enquire about discounts applicable when there is a full time student living at the property. I was attended by a lady that was very unhelpful and extremely rude."
  • "The Noise pollution team are absolutely useless."
  • "This is the worst service I've ever come across!"
  • "Nicki was not only extremely rude, she wrongly insinuated I had forged documents."
  • "Horrible customer service! Such rude and incompetent staff."

Communication & Responsiveness

Pros:

  • "Now sometimes service was good."

Cons:

  • "Zero accountability from the top to the bottom."
  • "I emailed them my documents... but they have not replied and I even used the call back service, no one called back."
  • "NO response for weeks, NO easy contact with any business line."
  • "They failed to respond to two emailed complaints within response times based on their own policy."
  • "Trying to get hold of someone from the recycling department... was waiting for over an hour no reply."
  • "Can't reach anyone over the phone, they ask you to email in but they don't bother getting back to you."
  • "They refuse to respond to e-mails and no longer take calls from the public."

Website & Online Services

Pros:

  • "I have updated your account and you will now see the option to apply for your permit via your on-line account."

Cons:

  • "Their website is a complete joke and doesn't even allow me to login."
  • "Trying to resolve council tax query. Phone system hangs up immediately, no email address, online system fails to allow my house move to go through."
  • "Have recently changed their online system for council tax... impossible to register for council tax."
  • "Really bad payment process for PCN - took 5 minutes to pay on Hounslow website but couldn't even find where to pay on Ealing's site."
  • "How, in 2022, does the council not have an email address!?"
  • "Ealing council have just changed their online account system and have made it incredibly difficult to get your account set up again."
  • "The website is trash. The staff are very incompetent and unhelpful."

Staff & Management

Pros:

  • "Otherwise the staff here are friendly to new employees and is a fine place for work."

Cons:

  • "Sleeping beauties! Council tax is over the moon but no one is taking care of the areas! NORTH ACTON SQUARE. Is getting worse and worse."
  • "It makes it more difficult that complaints aren't addressed and are harder to even get heard by the council."
  • "Disgusted by the atrocious service provided by planning department."
  • "They don't have personal to handle things on the phone and their website is always stuck on 'redirecting'."
  • "Very rude people without patience at all work in these council offices."
  • "No leadership and no one cares."
  • "They are the most incompetent, rude and insolence of people I have come across!"

Financial & Legal Issues

Pros:

  • "They're efficient at sending a tax debt collection letter though, hence the one star."

Cons:

  • "Four fine tickets arrived and plenty more coming."
  • "worse council indeed, i informed the council that my partner is a student and he is no longer working and they acknowledged it however they are still charging the same amount of money."
  • "Ealing council do not reply just will send you a rejection letter with double the fine."
  • "Even after paying council tax they send the court notice for not paying."
  • "Had to pay 150£ fine for a litter that I never thrown on the street."
  • "Also, we are paying 200£/month for council tax! It’s a robbery!"
  • "They charged me twice for council tax and when I contact them no one answers me properly."

Cleanliness & Maintenance

Pros:

  • "The contracting company that the council hired to collect the bins - only collect what they want and when they want."

Cons:

  • "Worst council. No one has swept our street over 7 months."
  • "Rubbish ripped all over the pavement flies/foxes old food everywhere in the summer months. Disgusting."
  • "Our rubbish hasn’t been collected for three weeks in a row now."
  • "The residents have been without lift for over two years now the building is 7 storey floors with 41 flats."
  • "Consistently fail to collect rubbish on a weekly basis."
  • "Our rubbish collection is missed on the regular basis."
  • "They did not collect oversized rubbish which I had booked for collection."

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