Remediation of non-ACM buildings

In the March 2020 budget, the government announced that it would provide £1 billion from 2020 to 2021 through a new Building Safety Fund. This would fund the remediation of unsafe non-ACM cladding systems on residential buildings 18 metres and over in both the private and social housing sectors.

In July 2022, the government reopened the £4.5 billion Building Safety Fund, the Department sent a letter (PDF, 163 KB, 4 pages) to all responsible entities that applied for the Building Safety Fund in June to July 2020. This provided information about the reopened BSF and what action they may need to take.

If you are a leaseholder or resident of a building in the Building Safety Fund, please visit find support as a leaseholder or resident of a building in the Building Safety Fund (BSF) process.

Use of information provided in relation to applications to the Fund

The information provided by responsible entities applying to the Fund (see Annex D), excluding personal data, may be shared, as described below. Information that is protected by legislation or is confidential will not be shared.

In order to facilitate mortgage lending, DLUHC will share, with mortgage lenders, basic address information of high-rise buildings approved for funding in the Building Safety Fund, as well as buildings with funding in place to remove unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems. DLUHC will not share personal data with lenders. We intend to also share information for buildings in other remediation schemes moving forward.

This information will only be shared with specific mortgage lenders that commit to using this information in a controlled way and for the specific purpose of informing lending decisions on flats in buildings impacted by external wall system defects, helping prospective buyers to access mortgage finance and leaseholders to sell (and re-mortgage).

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Building Safety Fund registrations (private sector and social sector)

Headlines

• The Building Safety Fund has received 2824 Private Sector Registrations of which 947 registrations (1032 buildings) are proceeding with an application for funding.
• 222 Social Sector Grant Claims have been received of which 152 registrations (177 buildings) are proceeding with an application for funding.
• £1,540 million has been approved for the remediation of unsafe non-ACM cladding from the Building Safety Fund, of which £1,398 million is for private sector remediation and £142 million for social sector remediation.
• 320 buildings have started remediation work, of which 71 have completed works (including 4 that have also received building control sign off).

Total registrations

	Total private sector registrations	Total private sector buildings (estimate)	Total social sector registrations	Total social sector buildings
London	1630	1883	192	222
Rest of England	1194	1345	30	31
Total Registrations	2824	3228	222	253

Note: Some registrations to the Building Safety Fund cover more than one building, for example where a registration was submitted for a residential development made up of a number of separate buildings. The table above shows the total number of registrations and an estimate of total number of buildings based on the information that has been made available by the responsible entity. These estimates can change in subsequent releases if we receive revised information from the responsible entity.

Private sector registration status

Status	30 September 2022: registrations	30 September 2022: buildings (estimate)	31 October 2022: registrations	31 October 2022: buildings (estimate)	Monthly change: registrations	Monthly change: buildings (estimate)
Reviewed registrations	2573	2936	2595	2972	+22	+36
Proceeding with an application for funding	940	1023	947	1032	+7	+9
Registration ineligible (1)	788	968	788	975	0	+7
Registration withdrawn before reaching eligibility stage	656	732	682	762	+26	+30
Registration withdrawn after reaching eligibility stage	69	73	70	74	+1	+1
Insufficient evidence to allow verification (applicant has only provided partial information required to fully verify eligibility and further information has been requested)	84	103	71	76	-13	-27
Registration eligibility currently being reviewed	36	37	37	53	+1	+16
No available evidence to assess verification (applicant has not provided information required to verify eligibility and has not responded to requests for this information)	251	281	229	256	-22	-25
Total	2824	3217	2824	3228	0	+11

(1) Figures shown include appeals which have been submitted against ineligible registrations

Note: All building numbers apart from those proceeding with an application for funding are estimates based on the information that has been made available by the responsible entity. These estimates can change in subsequent releases if we receive revised information from the responsible entity.

Estimate of homes and properties covered by private sector Building Safety Fund registrations proceeding with an application for funding = 95,000 (2)

(2) Estimate is based on responses for the 947 current Building Safety Fund private sector applications to a question on the number of units in the building asked as part of the registration process

Social sector registration status

Status	30 September 2022: Registrations	30 September 2022: Buildings	31 October 2022: Registrations	31 October 2022: Buildings	Monthly change: Registrations	Monthly change: buildings
Reviewed Registrations	220	251	220	251	0	0
Proceeding with an application for funding	152	177	152	177	0	0
Registration ineligible	30	30	29	29	-1	-1
Registration withdrawn	28	29	29	30	+1	+1
Insufficient evidence to allow verification (applicant has only provided partial information required to fully verify eligibility and further information has been requested)	10	15	10	15	0	0
Registration eligibility currently being reviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0
No available evidence to assess verification (applicant has not provided information required to verify eligibility and has not responded to requests for this information)	2	2	2	2	0	0
Total	222	253	222	253	0	0

Estimate of homes and properties covered by social sector Building Safety Fund registrations proceeding with an application for funding = 6,100 (3)

(3) Estimate is based on responses for the 152 current Building Safety Fund social sector applications to a question on the number of units in the building asked as part of the registration process.

Private and social sector buildings with ACM and Non-ACM cladding

There are currently 67 private sector registrations for buildings with both ACM and non-ACM cladding systems. Of these, 55 registrations have been assessed as eligible for funding for the non-ACM and ACM cladding and 43 registrations have been awarded funding for costed works.

There are currently 17 social sector registrations for buildings with both ACM and non-ACM cladding systems. Of these, 17 registrations have been assessed as eligible for funding for the non-ACM and ACM cladding and 10 registrations have been awarded funding for costed works.

Building Safety Fund allocation (private sector and social sector)

Private sector funding allocation

	No. of buildings with Non-ACM cladding	Funding allocated for buildings with Non-ACM cladding	No. of buildings with Non-ACM and ACM cladding	Funding allocated for buildings with Non-ACM and ACM cladding(4)
Full Applications Approved	301	£1,100m	41	£87m
Pre-Tender Support Allocations	502	£206m	12	£5m

(4) Allocations shown in the table for buildings with ACM and non-ACM cladding are just for the funding of non-ACM remediation by the Building Safety Fund. The funding of the remediation of the unsafe ACM cladding is through the Private Sector ACM Remediation Fund.

As of 31 October 2022, the total private sector funding allocation is £1,398 million.

As of 31 October 2022, the Building Safety Fund’s Private Sector expenditure stood at £570 million.

Social sector funding allocation

As of 31 October 2022, the total value of approved social sector grant claims is £142 million.

As of 31 October 2022, the total value of social sector grant claims expenditure stood at £104 million.

Total funding allocations

	30 September 2022	31 October 2022	Monthly change
Total value of approved social sector grant claims	£141m	£142m	£1m
Total private sector funding allocation	£1,382m	£1,398m	£16m
Total amount of funding allocated for the remediation of non-ACM cladding (Social and Private Sector)	£1,523m	£1,540m	£17m

As of 31 October 2022, the total amount of funding allocated for the remediation of non-ACM cladding is £1,540m (including social sector).

As of 31 October 2022, the Building Safety Fund’s total expenditure (including Social and Private Sector spend) was £674 million.

Remediation progress of buildings proceeding to application

	Remediation started **	Remediation complete: awaiting Building Control sign off	Remediation complete	Total started or completed
Private Sector	152	46	1	199
Social Sector *	65	13	0	78
Private Sector ACM and Non-ACM cladding	32	8	3	43
Total	249	67	4	320

* Including those with ACM and Non-ACM cladding

** Remediation started does not include those buildings that have completed remediation work which means this number could reduce as more buildings complete than have started on site this month.

Further information on the location of private sector registrations is available below. We have not included private sector registration locations where there are fewer than 5 buildings in a local authority area to prevent the identification of specific buildings.

Building Safety Fund: private sector registration by local authority

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Enforcement

The government supports local authorities and fire and rescue services in the use of their enforcement powers against buildings with unsafe cladding systems.

DLUHC has collected data from local authorities on enforcement action taken against high-rise residential buildings with unsafe non-ACM cladding in their areas through the work of the Joint Inspection Team, our ongoing engagement, and an online portal. The enforcement figures represent high-rise buildings with non-ACM cladding both outside of and within the Building Safety Fund.

Our data shows that enforcement action has been, or is being, taken by local authorities against 92 high-rise buildings with unsafe non-ACM cladding (and, in many other cases, the threat of enforcement action has been effective in triggering building owners to act). As the data has been collected from local authorities on a voluntary basis, there may be further action that has been taken, of which the department is not yet aware.

Local authorities’ enforcement powers

Local Authoritiesauthorities have powers, under the Housing Act 2004, to calculate the seriousness of certain hazards and take enforcement action against building owners or landlords based on their assessment. The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) is a risk-based assessment evaluation tool to help local authorities identify and protect against potential risks and hazards to health and safety from any deficiencies identified in residential premises.

The HHSRS assesses 29 categories of housing hazard–hazard – including fire – on the potential for harm that may result from exposure to the hazard. Each hazard has a weighting which will help determine whether the property is rated as having risks which are either category 1 or category 2. Where a risk is deemed to be category 1, a local authority has a duty to take enforcement action; where a risk is deemed to be category 2, an authority has the power to take action. In 2018, the Department laid an addendum to the HHSRS Operatingoperating Guidanceguidance to provide guidance on the assessment of high-rise residential buildings with unsafe cladding.

Following the commencement of the Building Safety Act 2022, local authorities have new powers to take enforcement through Remediation Orders or Remediation Contribution Orders. Remediation Orders allow interested parties (including local authorities and fire and rescue services) to apply to the First-tier Tribunal for an order requiring a landlord to remedy specified defects in their building. Remediation Contribution Orders allow interested parties (including local authorities and fire and rescue services) to apply to the First-tier Tribunal for an order compelling landlords, developers and their associated companies to make payments in order to meet costs incurred in remedying relevant defects.

Local authorities’ enforcement actions

Our data sources outlined above show that enforcement action has been, or is being, taken under the Housing Act against 92 buildings with unsafe non-ACM cladding by 29 local authorities. This includes 34 buildings with Joint Inspection Team support. The Joint Inspection Team was set up by the department, and is hosted by the Local Government Association, to provide expert advice to local authorities on enforcement on buildings with unsafe cladding. 21 of the 92 cases are high-rise residential buildings that contain both ACM and non-ACM cladding.

A total of 92 buildings have had HHSRS inspections undertaken by a local authority.

Of the 92 buildings, we are aware that 22 had a Category 1 HHSRS rating and 49 buildings had a Category 2 HHSRS rating. Of the 92 cases, we are aware that at least 34 improvement notices and 5 hazard awareness notices have been served to date.