Social housing remediation data release: 31 March 2025
Published 26 June 2025
Applies to England
Headline findings
- As at 31 March 2025, registered providers of social housing reported that they were responsible for 17,391 11m+ buildings.听
- Registered providers of social housing reported 2,657 11m+ buildings with life-critical fire safety defects related to the external wall system (15% of all 11+m buildings).听
- Of those 2,657 buildings, registered providers reported that 1,148 buildings have started or completed remediation (43% of 11m+ buildings with life-critical fire safety defects related to the external wall system).
About the Fire Safety Remediation Survey聽
Data was collected from Registered Providers of social housing (RPs) via the Fire Safety Remediation Survey (the survey) for their 11m+ residential building stock in England. The survey required landlords to provide aggregate level information to Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) for all 11m+ residential buildings where they are the Responsible Entity, and landlords were asked to submit fire safety remediation data at a building level for assessment by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). Local Authority Registered Providers (LARPs) were asked to complete the survey on a voluntary basis. The survey reflects data as at 31 March 2025.听
548 registered providers of social housing were invited to respond to this round of the survey on their 11m+ stock. 939 small registered providers were excluded from this round of the survey because they had indicated that they were not the responsible entity for any 11m+ residential buildings. 539 registered providers responded to this round of the survey. Of them, 107聽 registered providers reported that they were not responsible for any 11m+ residential buildings, and 432 registered providers reported that they were responsible for at least 11m+ residential building.听
This data release covers responses to the building-level questionnaire. The estimates in this data release may differ from those included in the Fire safety remediation in social housing in England data release, which is published by the Regulator for Social Housing and uses aggregate-level data rather than building-level data. This is due to discrepancies between the aggregate-level return and building-level return for a small number of registered providers.听
Of 539 registered providers that were invited to respond to this round of the survey, 432 providers reported that they were responsible for at least one building that is 11m+. This release is based on the building-level data returns from these 432 providers as at 31 March 2025.听
These 432 providers reported that they were responsible for a total of 17,391 residential buildings above 11 metres in height which contain at least one unit of social housing. Of those 432 providers:聽
- 200 providers reported responsibility for more than five 11m+ buildings. Further information on these providers鈥 buildings is provided available in the accompanying management information tables.听
- 232 providers reported responsibility for five or fewer 11m+ buildings each. The data for these 232 providers is grouped into a single 鈥淥ther RPs鈥 row in the accompanying management information tables. The data for these providers is grouped in this way to avoid inadvertently identifying individual buildings with life-critical fire safety defects.
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This data release is split into four sections:聽
- Progress with building works assessments and specialist assessments. This section shows the number of buildings in England over 11 metres which contain at least one unit of social housing, for which social housing providers who responded to the survey are the responsible entity. This section also sets out the number and proportion of buildings that have had a recent building works assessment and/or a specialist assessment (such as a Fire Risk Appraisal of External Wall System, FRAEW). A breakdown by provider is available in the accompanying management information tables.听
- Buildings with EWS defects. This section sets out the number and proportion of buildings that were found to require remedial works to mitigate life-critical fire safety defects related to the external wall system (EWS), since June 2017 and at the time of the most recent building works assessment. A breakdown by provider is available in the accompanying management information tables.听
- Progress with remediation. This section shows the number and proportion of buildings requiring remedial works to mitigate life-critical fire safety defects related to the EWS. This section sets out the number and proportion of buildings with EWS defects, where remediation has been completed, has started, works are planned or plans are unclear. A breakdown by provider is available in the accompanying management information tables.
1. Progress with assessments聽
As of 31 March 2025, social housing providers reported that:聽
- 17,380 of the 17,391 buildings for which they are responsible (almost 100%) have had a recent building works assessment*.听
- 11 buildings (less than 1%) have not had a recent building works assessment.
Recent building works assessment? | Number | Percent | Cumulative Number | Cumulative Percentage |
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Yes | 17,380 | 100% | 17,380 | 100% |
No | 11 | 0% | 17,391 | 100% |
2. Buildings with life-critical fire safety EWS defects聽
Providers reported that 2,657 buildings (15% of 11+m buildings) have been found to have LCFS related to the EWS since June 2017. Of 2,657 buildings with LCFS defects related to the EWS:聽
- 1,895 buildings had LCFS relating to the EWS (11% of 11+m buildings) at the time of their most recent building works assessment.听
- 762 buildings were identified as having LCFS defects relating to the EWS which were remediated prior to their most recent building works assessment (4% of 11+m buildings).听
*A building works assessment should comply with the requirements of the Fire Safety Order, for example a building works assessment or Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls (FRAEW).听
This excludes 2 buildings identified with EWS defects which have been decanted prior to demolition.
3. Progress with remediation聽
2,657 buildings (15% of 11+m buildings) that were identified as having life-critical fire safety defects relating to the External Wall System (EWS) since June 2017. Of those:聽
- 893 (34%) have completed remediation works. Of them, 762 buildings completed remediation works since June 2017 but prior to their most recent building works assessment, and 131 completed remediation prior to their most recent building works assessment** .听
- 255 buildings (10%) have started remediation works.听
- 984 buildings (37%) have not started remediation works but have plans in place.听
- 525 buildings (20%) have not started remediation works and were reported to have no or unclear plans in place***.听
In total, 1,148 buildings (43%) are reported to have started or completed remediation 鈥 a decrease of seven buildings since reported in the 31 December 2024 Social Housing Remediation data release. While 103 buildings are reported to have started or completed remediation, this was offset by the status of 110 buildings changing from having started or completed remediation to not having cladding defects or no longer being reported in the survey (33 buildings), or to not having started remediation (77 buildings).听
**which could include buildings whose remediation work has been completed but is awaiting building control sign-off and those awaiting a post-works building works assessment to check whether any life-critical fire safety defects remain.听聽
***This is either because works have not started and there are no plans in place, or the remediation status has been left blank in the survey.
Remediation status of buildings with EWS defects | Number | Percent | Cumulative Number | Cumulative Percentage |
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Works Complete - Prior to Recent Assessment | 762 | 29% | 762 | 29% |
Works Complete - Since to Recent Assessment | 131 | 5% | 893 | 34% |
Works Started | 255 | 10% | 1,148 | 43% |
Works Not Started - Plans in Place | 984 | 37% | 2,132 | 80% |
Works Not Started - No or Unclear Plans | 525 | 20% | 2,657 | 100% |