Cladding

Hans Mitchell discusses the critically slow progress of Scotland's National Cladding Remediation Programme, which, despite increased government funding and a high demand for building safety assessments, is severely hampered by a national shortage of qualified fire safety engineers to carry out the e

Scotland's property sector has urged the Scottish Government to exempt some housebuilders and developers from paying a proposed new tax amid a chronic shortage of homes across the country. The Scottish Property Federation (SPF) wants a series of urgent exemptions to be made from the proposed new Bui

A further £20 million will speed up actions to make Scotland’s buildings safe from dangerous cladding, housing secretary Màiri McAllan announced today.

Fife Council has stressed its focus on tenant safety by agreeing a comprehensive response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Part 2 report.

Social housing developments are to be made exempt from a new build levy that aims to unlock additional funding to fix building safety issues, newly published legislation has revealed.

People with concerns about unsafe cladding in their properties can apply to a £10 million fund to have their building assessed.

The UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has hit out at a series of failed measures to address the cladding crisis in England with thousands of unsafe buildings still yet to be identified eight years on from Grenfell and a serious under-estimation of the impact its policies are having on

Housing minister Paul McLennan said the Scottish Government will "carefully consider" any recommendations from the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 Report that apply to Scotland, with a full response and cladding remediation action plan earmarked for next month.

CMS partner Caroline Maciver highlights what the Scottish Government has in store for 2025 in terms of cladding remediation. As this year comes to a close, Scotland’s housing minister Paul McLennan has given some indications of what to expect next year in respect of cladding remediation.

Dangerous cladding on all high-rise buildings in government-funded schemes in England will be fixed by the end of 2029, Angela Rayner has pledged.

The Scottish Government’s proposed Building Safety Levy is not the most appropriate way of funding actions to remediate unsafe cladding, according to landlord body Propertymark.

Seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed the reality of dangerous cladding across the UK, hundreds of thousands of residents in England still have no idea when their building will be made safe, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned today.

Proposals for a tax on developers to raise funds to fix building safety issues in Scotland have been published for public consultation.

On the back of the recent announcement by the Scottish Government to cut £700,000 from the cladding remediation programme set up by the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024, Anamore director Anthony Marley expresses his disappointment and caution at the decision. In recent years,

More than 5,000 ‘high-rise buildings’ in Scotland, including landmark developments such as Glasgow Harbour and Edinburgh’s Western Harbour, are estimated to be covered in flammable cladding, it has been revealed. Using information gathered over several years from their extensive da