Buildings: Repairs and Maintenance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent progress her Department has made on working with developers to ensure unsafe buildings are remediated quickly.
Answered by Alex Norris
54 developers have signed the developer remediation contract. MHCLG publishes quarterly updates on progress that developers are making. As of 31 March 2025, those developers had identified 1,700 buildings with life-critical fire safety defects that they are obligated to directly remediate. Developers had started or completed work on 49% of these buildings. Further detail is in the monthly Building Safety Data Release here.
On 2 December 2024, we published a joint plan to accelerate developer-led remediation and improve resident experience. 39 developers (accounting for over 95% of buildings to be remediated by developers) have signed up to the joint plan. In doing so, those developers have committed to ambitious stretch targets to finish assessing all their buildings by July 2025, and to start or complete remedial works on 80% of relevant buildings by July 2026 and on all relevant buildings by July 2027.
Government is holding developers to account. This includes working with developers to overcome barriers to remediation and improve resident experience through a monthly Remediation Action Group.
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