August 12, 2024
Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release – June 2024
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This data release reports on building safety remediation, current at 30 June 2024. Some of the headlines are as follows:
Overall remediation
As at the end of June 2024, there are 4,613 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 239 since the end of May 2024. The majority of this monthly increase is due to a change in reporting to include social housing buildings that had completed remediation independently of government funding and monitoring schemes before March 2024.
At the beginning of 2023, the department was monitoring the remediation progress of high-rise buildings with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations and buildings progressing in the Building Safety Fund. Throughout 2023, the department started monitoring the remediation progress of buildings in the Cladding Safety Scheme, developer remediation contract and reported by registered providers of social housing. The June 2024 release includes for the first time social housing buildings that had completed remediation independently of government funding and monitoring schemes before March 2024. This change in scope has largely driven the reporting of an additional 2,994 buildings with unsafe cladding since the end of June 2023.
Overall, 2,301 buildings (50%) have either started or completed remediation works. Of these, 1,332 buildings (29%) have completed remediation works.
ACM remediation
As at 30 June 2024 of the 498 high-rise (18 metres and over in height) residential and publicly owned buildings with ACM cladding systems, unlikely to meet Building Regulations, 487 (98%) have either started or completed remediation works, no change since the end of May.
Of these, 437 buildings (88%) have completed ACM remediation, including those awaiting building control sign-off, an increase of one since the end of May.
There are 11 buildings yet to start ACM remediation (2% of all buildings), no change since the end of May. One building is vacant so does not pose a risk to resident safety, seven occupied buildings have forecast start dates, two further buildings have had local authority enforcement action taken against them, and the remaining building came in to scope in April 2024.
Building Safety Fund (BSF)
As at 30 June 2024, of the 869 high-rise (18 metres and over in height) residential buildings proceeding with an application for funding through the Building Safety Fund, 222 buildings (26%) have started remediation works and 302 buildings (35%) have completed remediation on unsafe non-ACM cladding, including those awaiting building control sign-off.
Overall, 524 high-rise buildings (60%) in the BSF have either started or completed remediation works on non-ACM cladding, an increase of two since the end of May. Of these, 302 buildings (35% of buildings) have completed remediation works, an increase of 15 since the end of May.
Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS)
As at 30 June 2024, 288 buildings 11 metres and over in height have been assessed as eligible for the Cladding Safety Scheme, an increase of 64 since the end of May. All have either signed grant funding agreements or are in the process of doing so, and six buildings have started remediation work on site.
There are a further 1,228 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, 432 buildings are progressing through eligibility checks, and 796 buildings are in the pre-application stage.
This is in addition to almost 4,000 buildings in the pipeline that are being investigated, and where within programme parameters, are being brought into the pre- application process.
Social housing sector
As at 30 June 2024, 2,410 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, 1,205 (50%) have started or completed remediation works, with 661 (27% of buildings) having completed remediation. These figures represent a change of methodology since the previous publication – more information is available in the section ‘Social Housing Sector’.
In the most recent survey as at 31 March 2024, Registered Providers of social housing reported 1,818 buildings 11 metres and over in height as having unsafe cladding at the time of their most recent assessment. This could include buildings whose remediation work has been completed but awaits building control sign off and those awaiting a subsequent assessment to confirm no outstanding life-critical fire-safety defects. Of these, providers have reported that 631 (35%) have either started or completed remediation works, including 103 buildings (6%) reported to have completed remediation.
Enforcement
As at 23 June 2024, local authority enforcement action has been, or is being, taken under the Housing Act 2004 against 398 buildings over 11m with unsafe cladding, an increase of nine since the end of May.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
July 2024
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