Findings from the Front

The Regulator for Social Housing has today released its findings from the 2025-26 Q1 Fire Safety Remediation Survey on buildings over 11 metres owned by registered social landlords. 

This survey had been issued to all large landlords (those owning 1,000 or more units of social stock), small landlords (those owning fewer than 1,000 units of social stock) who reported previously that they were responsible for relevant buildings, and any landlord who had not responded to any previous surveys.

The data being collected relates to:

• landlords’ obligations under the Fire Safety (Regulatory) Order 2005 for assessing fire safety risks associated with the relevant parts of those buildings;
• risks landlords have identified, particularly in relation to external wall systems (EWS); and
• landlords’ plans for remediating buildings they have identified as having life critical fire safety risks.

The key facts are:

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-safety-remediation-in-social-housing-in-england-2025-26-quarter-1/findings-from-the-fire-safety-remediation-survey-2025-26-quarter-1#keyfacts

The survey highlighted that works have been progressed in relation to a number of the 2,672 buildings identified as having an EWS related LCFS defects since June 2017. Remediation works have been completed on 746 of these buildings (27.9%) and a further 160 buildings (6.2%) are awaiting building work assessment confirmations. 

The Regulator has made it clear that “timely action to remediate LCFS defects” is required by landlords and it will monitor performance and progress with the survey continuing to be issued on a quarterly basis.  Further the Regulator has said:

“We will follow up with landlords whose returns indicate that they may be an outlier in progressing remediation work, including those who have reported unclear plans. We will hold discussions with them on their remediation plans and how they are mitigating the risks associated with fire safety defects, which are not yet remediated.”. 

If you would like further information on this or assistance with any building safety matters, please contact Mark London or Lena Barnes.