Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme monthly management information: November 2025
This report presents management information for Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme to provide an indication of progress on a monthly basis.
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Introduction
Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme aims to protect homeowners and residents by addressing the risks to life and other impacts associated with unsafe external wall cladding systems, following the Grenfell Tower Fire in 2017.
Following the Grenfell Tower Fire, initial actions in Scotland primarily focussed on assurance, reviewing regulation and building standards, and establishing the prevalence of the most flammable types of cladding.
The Cladding Remediation Programme was initially primarily focused on the design and testing of the Single Building Assessment (SBA) process, via a ‘pilot’ phase. Learning from the ‘pilot’ phase demonstrated in practice a number of potential challenges, such as delays and obstacles to assessing and remediating buildings due to difficulties in obtaining consent from owners and residents. Steps to address these challenges were taken by bringing forward the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024, which commenced on 6 January 2025.
Independent fire engineers were commissioned to develop a unique Single Building Assessment Specification (released in June 2024), and the SBA compliance and assurance standards were released alongside the Act in January 2025. An SBA can be carried out to assess any risk caused or exacerbated by a building’s external wall system, identify if any work is needed to eliminate or mitigate these risks, and must be carried out by a competent qualified person.
On 25 March 2025, Scottish Ministers launched the Single Open Call, which enables residential property owners or their representatives to submit expressions of interest to the Programme identifying buildings which may need assessment, and (subject to the height and age of their property) to apply for government funding for an SBA. This funding is being made available on an equitable basis to support assessment, mitigation and remediation of both social housing and private sector residential properties. The Next Phase Plan of Action published on 7 August 2025, provides more information on the Programme’s next phase of delivery, focusing on acceleration, mitigation and remediation pathways
Discussions are currently underway with developers who signed the Developer Commitment Letter and these developers will be invited to sign the Developer Remediation Contract once it is finalised. This will then provide the contractual basis for them to take forward assessment and remediation on relevant buildings for which they have accepted responsibility.
This release provides a range of metrics describing the progress of expressions of interest made to the Single Open Call. It also provides users with information about the progress of SBAs and remediation, and the Cladding Remediation Programme’s financial expenditure.