Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme monthly management information: September 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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Background
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.
The Programme seeks to do this by creating the approach for assessment of buildings, and ensuring that works identified to address any relevant risks to life are taken forward.
Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, several actions were undertaken in Scotland primarily focusing on assurance, reviewing the regulation and building standards, and establishing the prevalence of the most flammable types of cladding.
The Cladding Remediation Programme was initially in a ‘pilot’ phase, which was primarily focused on the design and testing of the Single Building Assessment (SBA) process. Learning from the ‘pilot’ phase identified 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.
An 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.
This release provides information related to the progress of Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme covering the period up to 30 September 2025. 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 than the Cladding Remediation Programme is currently aware of.