Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill

Nearly a decade after the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, where 72 people lost their lives, thousands of buildings still have unsafe cladding. The government has brought forward the Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill (the Bill) as part of its commitment to accelerate the remediation of any unsafe cladding.

The Bill was first announced in the July 2025 Remediation Acceleration Plan (RAP). It was introduced to Parliament on 14 October 2026. The Bill’s core objectives are to:

• Create certainty for which buildings require cladding remediation and to what standard.
• Give regulators powers to act against those delaying remediation, ensuring those responsible for fixing historic and ongoing failures do so more quickly.
• Make the companies that made unsafe building products contribute to fix the problems they caused.
• Ensure all residents have a route to remediation.

Building owners have always been responsible for making their buildings safe. However, there is currently no clear legal duty on those responsible to remediate unsafe cladding specifically. The Bill will introduce a clear legal duty on responsible entities of medium and high-rise buildings to assess and remediate life-critical external wall fire safety risks.

To acheive these objectives, the Bill will:

• Introduce a register of all residential, 11-18 metre buildings in England.
• Introduce duties to assess, produce remediation compliance plans, remediate and mitigate and allow regulators to act against those delaying remediation, including criminal prosecution for the worst cases
  Mandate a consistent approach for Fire Risk Assessments of External Walls (FRAEWs) and compel auditing so FRAEWs are carried out properly.
• Make it easier for a claim to be brought against a manufacturer who has supplied unsafe construction products.
• Expand the pool of parties who can bring a claim, including to developers.
• Introduce a last-resort backstop mechanism to allow a public authority to carry out remediation work themselves.

What are the current timelines?

The Bill has now been introduced to Parliament. The next step will be its second reading in the House of Commons.

We’ll provide updates to this webpage as the Bill progresses.

Our work on the Remediation Bill

Since the announcement of the Bill, we have been working with the team at MHCLG to ensure it can be successfully implemented and delivers the best outcome possible for residents.

We have been particularly focused on ensuring that the Bill team understand the complex ownership and management structures that exist in the sector, to inform the proposed Duty to Remediate.

We will continue to work closely with the government as the Bill progresses through parliament.

Quote from Kate Henderson, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation, on the announcement of the Bill: 

"Resident safety is housing associations’ top priority, and the sector is committed to accelerating remediation works and making all buildings safe as quickly as possible. We welcome the introduction of the Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill as another important step towards achieving this.  

The introduction of an 11-18m register, and duties to assess, produce compliance plans, remediate and mitigate send a clear message that no building will be left behind. Housing associations are already making significant progress on remediation works and these measures go one step further to ensuring that all residents feel safe in their homes. 

New measures to make it easier to pursue claims against construction product manufacturers are particularly important and something we have long called for. It is right that those responsible for defective products are held to account and contribute towards the costs of putting things right. We also welcome steps to improve the information available on buildings between 11 and 18 metres. We have continued to highlight the need for better data on buildings requiring remediation to the government, so that there is a clearer picture of the scale of the challenge and the work still required. 

We look forward to working with the government as this Bill progresses through Parliament to ensure the new measures support our shared goal of making affected buildings safe as quickly as possible."