New data has revealed that more than 1,000 claims of unsafe cladding have been submitted to Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme over the last six months
Earlier this year (March 2025), Scottish ministers launched a Single Open Call as part of the programme, allowing residential property owners or their representatives to share concerns related to the cladding of their building. To assist with this, a £10 million fund was also launched to help owners, subject to the age and height of their properties, carry out a statutory Single Building Assessment (SBA) to determine whether remedial work was needed.
The initiatives were announced as part of the Scottish government’s response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report, in which it reiterated its commitment to speed up the process of assessing and replacing unsafe cladding.
As of 30 September, 1,062 expressions of interest (EoIs) had been submitted, the Scottish government reported. More than half of these (535) were made by factors or property managers, whilst local authorities submitted 313 and registered social landlords submitted 205.
Of the total number of EoIs submitted, 368 were not eligible for funding to carry out an SBA, whilst 478 had been issued an initial grant or funding offers of up to £50,000.
“Because up to £50,000 is offered for each EoI to pay for the cost of an SBA, the Cladding Remediation Programme had offered up to almost £24 million in funding for SBAs. However, offers to building owners are subject to further SBA eligibility checks, and so may not proceed to an SBA,” the government stated.
Only 16 SBAs have been completed as of 30 September, with all these assessments indicating that remedial work is required. This figure includes high-priority assessments commissioned by the Scottish government as part of its pilot programme. The Cladding Remediation Programme’s total expenditure from financial year 2021/22 to 30 September 2025 was £14.2 million.
As previously reported by the FPA, research published by the government in June 2025 showed that an estimated 1,260–1,450 residential high-rise buildings (11 metres or more) in Scotland might require cladding remediation, with costs ranging from £1.7 billion to £3.1 billion.