15% of social housing with fire defects may not begin remediation for a decade, says regulator

By Daniel Gayne2025-06-26T12:18:00

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Majority of works will begin within five years

The remediation of 285 social housing buildings with life-critical fire safety defects will not begin for more than a decade, the Regulator of Social Housing says in its latest quarterly survey published today.

Almost all (99.9%) of the 17,391 relevant buildings reported have had fire-risk assessments, with life-critical fire safety (LCFS) defects relating to the external wall system identified in 1,897 (10.9%) cases.

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