Developers commit to Joint plan to accelerate remediation

Almost 30 developers have signed up to the government’s Joint plan to accelerate developer-led remediation published today (December 2), with the companies committing to starting or completing remedial works on all their buildings by the end of July 2027.

Under the Joint plan, published alongside the government’s separate, wider Remediation Acceleration Plan to accelerate remedial works in all buildings, developers have also signed up to finishing assessing all their buildings by the end of July 2025; starting or completing remedial works on 80% of their buildings by the end of July 2026 and resolving all current cost-recovery negotiations with social housing providers by the end of July 2025.

The Joint plan includes in total 35 commitments by developers and government to help achieve six shared objectives:

• Improve resident experience of remedial works
• Accelerate work to find all unsafe buildings requiring remedial works
• Improve quality of assessments used to determine whether buildings require remedial works
• Accelerate work to fix buildings
• Accelerate resolution of cost-recovery negotiations between developers and social housing providers
• Establish a developer-Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) working group to unblock remaining barriers to remediation.

The government said it had invited all …