cladding systems<\/a>, following the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017.<\/p>\nIt ensures buildings are assessed and any works identified to address any relevant risks to life are taken forward.<\/p>\n
In March, Scottish Government ministers launched a Single Open Call for residential property owners or their representatives to notify the CRP if they had concerns about cladding in their properties.<\/p>\n
They were also given the opportunity, subject to the height and age of their property, to apply for government funding for a statutory Single Building Assessment (SBA) to be carried out.<\/p>\n
As of 30 September 2025, the CRP had received 1,062 expressions of interest via the Single Open Call.<\/p>\n
However, the number also included more than a third of claims that were not eligible for funding, such as from developers that are responsible for assessments and remediation and for buildings under 11 metres.<\/p>\n
Half of the claims were submitted by property managers (535) and almost half by social landlords (313 from local authorities and 205 from registered social landlords).<\/p>\n
The CRP has not issued initial grant or funding offers in relation to 478 claims.<\/p>\n
Up to \u00a350,000 is offered for each application to pay for the cost of an SBA. So far the CRP has offered up to \u00a324m.<\/p>\n
Since the CRP was launched in 2021, its total expenditure to 30 September 2025 has been \u00a314.2m.<\/p>\n
To date 16 SBAs have been completed, including the high-priority SBAs that the Scottish Government commissioned for buildings that were identified as part of its pilot programme in 2021.<\/p>\n
The CRP was initially launched as a pilot to focus on the design and testing of the SBA process.<\/p>\n
Lessons learnt from the pilot identified a number of potential challenges, such as delays and obstacles to assessing and remediating buildings due to difficulties in obtaining consent from owners and residents.<\/p>\n
As a result, it took steps to address the difficulties by introducing the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act which came into force on 6 January 2025.<\/p>\n
The legislation allows ministers to identify and address dangerous cladding on residential buildings, establish a register for assessments and remediation, and create a\u00a0Responsible Developers Scheme\u00a0to fund and carry out the works.<\/p>\n
It also allows for the assessment, remediation and potential evacuation of affected buildings.<\/p>\n
Research by the Scottish Government,<\/a> published in June, revealed that remediating all the affected buildings could cost up to \u00a33bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,000 claims have been made over the past six months to Scotland\u2019s Cladding Remediation Programme (CRP),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-485569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115344074879383327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}