UK Government’s ambitions for removing unsafe cladding
As at the end of October 2024, there are 4,834 residential buildings 11 metres and over in height identified with unsafe cladding whose remediation progression is being reported on in this release, an increase of 13 since the end of September 2024.
Since the department first began reporting on all five remediation programmes in October 2023, 1,037 more buildings with unsafe cladding are being reported on in this release.
Overall, 2,419 buildings (50%) have either started or completed remediation works. Of these, 1,436 buildings (30%) have completed remediation works.
Figure 1: Of the 4,834 buildings identified with unsafe cladding, 2,419 (50%) have started or completed remediation works, of which 1,436 (30%) have completed remediation works. This includes remediation progress on high rise (18m+) and mid-rise (11-18m) buildings in height.
Note: From October 2023 onwards combined remediation progress is shown across the BSF, ACM programme, Cladding Safety Scheme, developer remediation contract and as reported by registered providers of social housing. The total number of buildings does not sum to the total number of buildings reported in each respective section of the data release due to crossover between schemes.
The majority of the increase in completions shown between October and November 2023 is due to a change in methodology when assigning remediation statuses for buildings that crossover between multiple schemes.
The increase in the number of reported completions between May and June 2024 is largely due to a change in methodology in reporting social housing sector remediation, which from June 2024 includes social housing buildings that had completed remediation independently of government funding and monitoring schemes before March 2024.
ACM remediation – monthly update (as at end October 2024) since previous publication
As at 31 October 2024 of the 514 high-rise (18 metres and over in height) residential and publicly owned buildings with ACM cladding systems, unlikely to meet Building Regulations, 490 (95%) have either started or completed remediation works, no change since the end of September.
Of these, 444 buildings (86%) have completed ACM remediation, including those awaiting building control sign-off, an increase of one since the end of September.
There are 24 buildings yet to start ACM remediation (5% of all buildings), an increase of 1 since the end of September. One building is vacant so does not pose a risk to resident safety, 18 occupied buildings have forecast start dates, two further buildings have had local authority enforcement action taken against them, and the remaining three buildings have come into scope in recent months.
Building Safety Fund (BSF) – monthly update (as at end October 2024) since previous publication
As at 31 October 2024, of the 810 high-rise (18 metres and over in height) residential buildings proceeding with an application for funding through the Building Safety Fund, 166 buildings (20%) have started remediation works and 352 buildings (43%) have completed remediation on unsafe non-ACM cladding, including those awaiting building control sign-off.
Overall, 518 high-rise buildings (64%) in the BSF have either started or completed remediation works on non-ACM cladding, an increase of 1 since the end of September. Of these, 352 buildings (43% of buildings) have completed remediation works, an increase of 11 since the end of September.
Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS) – monthly update (as at end October 2024) since previous publication
As at 31 October 2024, 460 buildings 11 metres and over in height have been assessed as eligible for the Cladding Safety Scheme (including 109 buildings that have transferred from the BSF), an increase of 28 since the end of September. All have either signed grant funding agreements or are in the process of doing so and are actively procuring works in the market. Of these, 31 buildings (7%) have either started or completed remediation works, an increase of 9 since the end of September. Of these, 14 buildings (3%) have completed remediation works, including those awaiting building control sign-off, an increase of 14 since the end of September.
The CSS continues to investigate and pull in potentially eligible buildings. There are a further 1,716 buildings 11 metres and over in height in the pre-eligible stages of the Cladding Safety Scheme, which launched fully in July 2023. Of these, 365 buildings are progressing through eligibility checks, and 1,351 buildings are in the pre-application stage.
Developer remediation – data received from developers as at 31 July 2024, data received from other programmes relating to developer-led remediation is as at 31 October 2024
As at 31 October 2024, 1,629 buildings 11 metres and over in height have been identified as having life-critical fire safety defects (including cladding and non-cladding defects) which developers have committed to remediate or pay to remediate (where the cladding remediation works are being carried out in a government funded remediation programme), no change since reported in the September data release.
Of these, developers reported that 772 (47%) have either started or completed remediation works, an increase of 3 since reported in the August data release. Of these, 413 (25% of buildings) are reported to have completed remediation works, no change since reported in the September data release.
When excluding buildings reported with only non-cladding defects, there are 1,452 buildings which developers have reported as having unsafe cladding, of which 718 (49%) are reported to have started or completed remediation, including 384 (26% of buildings) which are reported to have completed remediation.
As at 31 October 2024, 2,539 social buildings 11 metres and over in height have been identified as having life-critical fire-safety cladding defects. These have been identified using survey data submitted by Registered Providers of social housing and data on buildings the department is monitoring under other government programmes (ACM programme, BSF, CSS and Developer Remediation contract).
Of these, 1,296 (51%) have started or completed remediation works, an increase of one since reported in the September data release. Of these, 704 (28% of buildings) have completed remediation, no change since reported in the September data release.
Enforcement – monthly update (as at 28 October 2024) since previous publication
As at 28 October 2024, local authority enforcement action has been, or is being, taken under the Housing Act 2004 against 483 buildings over 11m with unsafe cladding, an increase of 39 since the end of September.
See the full report here: www.gov.uk/
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