High-rise buildings with dangerous cladding covered by government-funded schemes will be fixed by the end of 2029
More than 7 years since the Grenfell fire, and with funding available for fixing unsafe cladding the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has made clear in her expectations that remediation work on high rise buildings must start as soon as possible within 2025.
This expectation links to the remediation acceleration plan requirement for completion of work by 2029.
The new plan will see that all buildings 18 meters or taller have unsafe cladding removed through a government-funded scheme by December 2029. In the same time frame, all buildings 11 meters or taller with unsafe cladding will “have been remediated, have a date for completion, or the landlords will be liable for severe penalties.”
Rayner will say today that ‘decisive action’ is being taken to accelerate work to make thousands of homes safe and to punish private freeholders who don’t act fast.
The pledge has been criticised in some Quarters
“People still don’t know when their homes will be made safe.”
The government’s pledge to fix cladding on all high-rises by 2029 is merely “warm words”, said End Our Cladding Scandal’s Giles Grover
While others say the plans wont help all leaseholders:
‘nothing on non-cladding defects … non-qualifying leaseholders, buildings under 11m, shared owners, extortionate buildings
insurance, the useless waking watch,’
