Housing: Fire Prevention
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of people living in leasehold properties with un-remediated fire safety issues.
Answered by Alex Norris
The Government has committed to review how to better protect leaseholders from costs and take steps to accelerate the pace of remediation across the country. We will complete an assessment of any changes proposed on the market for leasehold properties and wider economic impacts, as was undertaken for previous reforms such as the Building Safety Act and Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act.
The department is monitoring an estimated 260,000 dwellings with unsafe cladding in occupied residential buildings 11m+ tall in the private and social housing sectors. Of these an estimated 89,000 dwellings are in buildings that have completed remediation, and an estimated 55,000 additional dwellings are in buildings that have started remediation. An estimated 116,000 dwellings are in buildings that have not started remediation.
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