Expanding Support for Remediation and Reforming the Building Safety System.
Today, 9th July 2026, the Building Safety Minster, Samantha Dixon published a Ministerial Statement setting out the steps the Government is taking to improve the effectiveness, proportionality and overall operation of the building safety regime. This includes:
- A package of Building Safety Regulator reforms to the higher-risk buildings regime, including publishing responses to consultations on telecommunications work and work in existing higher-risk buildings, and consulting on changes to the emergency repairs route.
- Proposing a revised approach to Building Assessment Certificates, moving to a more proportionate and risk-based approach, and increasing support for principal accountable persons, whilst ensuring safety remains paramount.
- Publishing the Government’s response to the Single Construction Regulator consultation setting out government’s direction for the single regulator.
Read the full statement HERE
Additionally, Government announced further steps to get external walls of buildings remediated quickly and to extend support. This includes new funding, a risk-to-life prioritisation for new Cladding Safety Scheme applications, and a new report by the FCA on insurance pricing, alongside the publication of the findings of Remediation Programme Insurance Survey.
Read the press release HERE
Andrew Bulmer, Chief Executive Officer of The Property Institute, commented:
"The steps being taken today are clearly in the right direction and these measures should make a tangible improvement to building safety. Our national approach needs to combine proper funding, clear and consistent guidance, robust standards, and regulatory oversight. Every trade and professional from design and construction through to the day-to-day management of buildings, and those involved in remediating safety defects must be competent to deliver homes that are genuinely safe.
We currently face a dual problem. Buildings with unsafe cladding are being remediated far too slowly, as our data has shown, and there remains a gap in standards and funding for fixing internal structural and fire safety defects. Meanwhile, the assessment of buildings by the BSR is also stalling with a high rejection rate. Both need to be addressed and streamlined, but not at the expense of the thorough assessments and standards that keep residents safe.
The move to a more risk-based, proportionate approach for the Building Assessment Certificates regime is the right principle, but it will only work if the underlying risk and intelligence assessment is robust. We haven't yet seen the detail of how that will operate. Residents and landlords alike will want assurance that no building falls through the gaps and safety risks are missed.”
