Scotland’s cladding remediation estimates: June 2025
An ad hoc publication providing the Cladding Remediation Programme’s latest estimates of the number of residential buildings in Scotland where works may be required to alleviate external wall system life-safety fire risks.
Caveats and limitations
Data quality
The data quality and assumptions used could overstate or understate the numbers. Therefore, these outputs represent our current best estimate and will be subject to change as more information becomes available.
The estimates are not a list of specific buildings
These are estimates of the number of buildings that might need work to alleviate EWS life-safety fire risks and do not represent a list of buildings that have been identified as requiring work. As explained in the methodology section, available data does not permit us to identify which of Scotland’s residential buildings, which are 11 metres or more in height, might require work to alleviate EWS life-safety fire risk. As a result, it would not be valid to make any adjustment to account for any remediation works that may already have been started or completed on specific buildings.
Private and social housing
These estimates are for all residential buildings, including both private and social housing.
Accuracy of height
The quality of the height data in the datasets used is uncertain. Additionally, the assumptions made to generate an approximate height to the floor of the topmost storey means that the height of each building is an estimate, which means buildings might be counted that are actually below 11 metres and miss some buildings that are above 11 metres.