Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme: ad hoc update June 2025
An ad hoc release providing data and information on the progress of the Cladding Remediation Programme in Scotland
Introduction
The Grenfell tragedy of 14 June 2017 highlighted that issues of potentially unsafe cladding and other fire safety defects could be present in residential buildings across the UK. The Scottish Government Cladding Remediation Programme was set up with the aim of protecting homeowners and residents of buildings with potentially unsafe cladding in Scotland.
Cladding generally refers to the external wall system used on some buildings. This can be used to provide thermal insulation, weather resistance or to improve a building’s appearance.
The Programme is committed to ensuring that residential buildings with cladding are assessed to identify whether this presents a fire risk. Following this, work may be needed to eliminate or mitigate these risks depending on their severity.
To be within the scope of the Programme, a building must meet all of the following criteria:
- is a flatted, residential building
- has an external wall system (i.e. cladding)
- is 11 metres or more in height (from ground level to uppermost habitable floor level)
- was constructed or developed between 1 June 1992 and 1 June 2022
A Single Building Assessment (SBA) can be carried out to assess any risk caused by a building’s external wall system, and identify if any work is needed to eliminate or mitigate these risks. The Cladding Remediation programme developed the SBA specification (June 2024) with independent fire engineers.
An SBA has to be carried out by a competent, qualified person and meet compliance and assurance standards specified by Scottish Ministers.
On 25 March 2025, the Cladding Remediation Programme launched the Single Open Call, which is an opportunity for residential property owners or their representatives to notify the Programme of their concerns about cladding in their properties, and (subject to the height and age of their property) to apply for government funding for a statutory Single Building Assessment (SBA). The Cladding Remediation programme has asked for expressions of interest (EoIs) to identify buildings which may need assessment.
This ad hoc release provides information on the number of SBAs and their progress, remedial works identified as a result of those SBAs and expressions of interest submitted via the Single Open Call, by type of applicant. However, it does not provide the complete picture of progress to mitigate cladding fire safety risk in Scotland. This release focuses on SBAs and therefore does not include information on other types of assessment carried out prior to the publication of the SBA specification in June 2024. It is also possible that developers or other organisations have started and/or completed more SBAs and/or remedial works than the Cladding Remediation Programme is currently aware of.
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