New data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities (DLUHC) confirms that 95% of “all identified high-rise residential and publicly owned buildings in England” have either completed or started remediation work to remove and replace unsafe cladding.
The Building Safety Programme data release from the DLUHC, which releases data on a monthly basis, provides data on the total number of high-rise (18 metres or more in height, or at least seven storeys) and medium-rise residential multi-occupied buildings in England, including publicly owned buildings identified with “Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations”.
Additionally, it displays the progress of such buildings in terms of remediation works, the number of “social and private residential, student accommodation, hotels, and publicly owned buildings” yet to be remediated, and the status of applications for funding by the Waking Watch Relief Fund and Waking Watch Replacement Fund.
Released by the department on 30 September 2022, the report states: “The total number of buildings identified with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations is 486.”
Statistics show that 90% of all identified buildings “no longer have unsafe ACM cladding systems”, while 80% of all buildings “have completed ACM remediation works”.
For those buildings that still have ACM cladding remaining, DLUHC states that 24 have started remediation. Of them, the department adds: “Two are vacant, so do not represent a risk to resident safety, and 14 additional buildings were identified after 31 December 2020.”
In addition to these high-rise residential buildings, 100% (that is, 160) of social sector buildings have either completed or started remediation work, with 90% having had their cladding removed. Further analysis reveals that 119 buildings have completed remediation, while the remaining 41 have had remediation work started.
In contrast, 91% (that is, 210) of private sector buildings have either completed or started remediation, with 84% having had their ACM cladding removed. The data release adds that funding amounting to £29.8 million has also been approved by the Waking Watch Relief and Replacement Funds, which covers “369 buildings and 26,900 leasehold dwellings”.
You can view the data in full here.