Cladding remediation: plan of action

Key actions

Single Building Assesment (SBA) and Open Call

We have launched a Single Open Call, open to all

On 25 March 2025 We launched a new opportunity for residential property owners or their representatives to notify us of their concerns about cladding in their properties, and (subject to the height and age of their property[1]) to apply for government funding for a statutory Single Building Assessment (‘SBA’).

This offer is open both to individual private owners and local authorities and Registered Social Landlords. To receive funding, owner(s) will be required to apply through a properly constituted body such as a factor.

Where a developer has accepted responsibility for the assessment and remediation of a property, it will remain for that developer to take forward and fund that work.

We have made an initial £10 m available to fund assessments through the Single Open Call. In the first instance, this offer will be available until 30 September 2025, or until funding is fully committed. We will keep the number of applications under review and may run further rounds of the open call process.

You can read further information on this Single Open Call, including how to submit your expression of interest, on the mygov website.

By the end of June 2025, we will extend the Single Open Call to cover mitigation and/or remediation works

Where an SBA finds that mitigation and/or remediation works are required to address a property’s cladding issues, the owner(s) will be able to apply for government funding for those works. Based on the applications received, the Scottish Government will consider which applications should be funded and in what order, taking account of the relative urgency of works and the available budget for remediation.

Where a developer has accepted responsibility for the assessment and remediation of a property, it will again remain for that developer to take forward and fund that work.

We expect that local authorities and Registered Social Landlords (RSL) will remain responsible for taking forward, and funding, any mitigation and/or remediation work required. However, where the owners are not in a financial position to be able to take forward the work required, the Scottish Government will consider the potential need for government support. Working with the Scottish Housing Regulator, we will develop and publish criteria for support before the end of June 2025.

In cases where issues of collective agreement may be preventing necessary work from being taken forward, the Scottish Government will consider making use of available provisions of the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024 to ensure that appropriate action can be taken.

Developer Remediation Contract

We are finalising the ‘Developer Remediation Contract’, and are working with developers to accelerate progress with remediation

We are finalising an agreement with the larger developers on the ‘Developer Remediation Contract’, enabling them to take forward assessment and remediation on properties for which they have accepted responsibility. This follows intensive negotiations since the sharing of draft terms in September 2024, with significant progress made in agreement in principle of key terms. We are working towards final agreement as soon as is practicable.

This will enable a significant acceleration in developer-led action on cladding in Scotland. We will continue to work collaboratively with developers to support their efforts. We will also track, gather and assure information on their remediation progress.

Assessment, mitigation and remediation

We will continue to take forward assessment, mitigation and remediation for properties for which the Scottish Government has taken the lead

We are directly taking forward assessment for 13 properties and preparing to assess a further 4 properties. We will take forward necessary mitigation and/or remediation works for those properties in light of the SBAs received.

We will continue to work with partners to gain as clear as possible a picture of the extent and nature of cladding risk across Scotland, and the action being taken. In particular, we will use that information to make sure that properties at elevated risk are being addressed

We have written to local authorities to ask them to provide an update on the situation in relation to cladding for each high-rise building in their ownership. We have also written to the Scottish Housing Regulator to ask them to provide a similar update for all relevant RSL-owned properties. Returns are expected from partners by the end of April 2025.

Using this information we will work with partners to identify specific properties that are at an elevated risk from cladding, and to determine how those risks will be addressed. This will provide a necessary complement to the ‘bottom-up’ process now set in train through the Single Open Call. We will track, gather and assure information on mitigation and remediation progress on elevated risk properties identified by local authority and RSL partners.

Programme communication

We will continue to promote better communication with owners, residents and tenants

We will continue to produce a quarterly newsletter aimed at owners, residents and tenants, backed by monthly updates and information on the Scottish Government website. In consultation with the social housing sector, we will develop a new suite of communications materials aimed at social housing providers.

We will update this plan of action quarterly.