Joint Remediation Plan

The Joint Remediation Plan is also referred to as the Joint Plan, note this differs from the more general Joint Development Plan Documents, which refer to council opportunities for joint working in planning. It also differs from the Remediation Acceleration Plan which is a general plan to speed up the remediation of all buildings with dangerous cladding, where as the Joint Remediation Plan focusses primarily on the social housing sector.

The developers signed up to the Developer Remediation Contract have, alongside government, committed to accelerating the remediation of unsafe buildings.

There are 39 commitments that have been made to help them achieve the following six objectives:

1. To improve resident experience of remedial works: developers commit to sign up to the Code of Practice for the Remediation of Residential Buildings and to adopt best practice measures on communication and letters of comfort to help leaseholders borrow and sell.
2. To accelerate determinations of which buildings require remedial works: developers commit to complete determinations for all buildings for which they are responsible under the contract by the end of July 2025, save for cases genuinely outside their control. The government commits to work with developers to resolve third party disputes, to publish dispute-resolution guidance, and to support work on template license agreements.
3. To improve quality of assessments used to determine whether buildings require remedial works: developers commit to use independent, competent assessors to undertake all assessments of buildings, including using the Cladding Safety Scheme panel of fire risk assessors. The government commits to commission sufficient audits of building assessments.
4. To accelerate starts and completions of remediation works: developers commit to start works on at least 80% of their buildings requiring works by end July 2026, and 100% by end July 2027, save for cases genuinely outside their control. Government commits to work with developers and the Building Safety Regulator to minimise avoidable delays and to intensify pressure on any third party that unreasonably blocks progress.
5. To expedite cost-recovery negotiations with social housing providers to accelerate remedial works: where developers are obligated to contribute towards the cost of remedial works in social housing (having acted as a contractor), developers commit to make every effort to agree their contributions by end of July 2025. Government commits to work with developers and Registered Providers of Social Housing to accelerate dispute resolution.
6. To establish developer-MHCLG Remediation Action Group: Government and developers commit to establish a working group to overcome barriers to remediation.

The Joint Plan also contains “stretch targets”:

• finish assessing all their buildings by the end of July 2025;
• start or complete remedial works on 80% of their buildings by the end of July 2026;
• start or complete remedial works on all their buildings by the end of July 2027; and
• resolve all current cost-recovery negotiations with social housing providers by the end of July 2025.

The Joint Plan works alongside the government’s broader Remediation Acceleration Plan.

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