News in the King’s Speech today about the legislation trailed previously in the Remediation Acceleration Plan update (covered in my previous blog in August 2025).

This is what the background briefing notes say about the intentions for the Remediation Bill:

"The Bill will: 

• Make construction product manufacturers pay towards fixing the problem they caused, by fixing long-standing gaps in the law and ending years of inaction. For the first time developers, contractors and others who have paid to make buildings safe will be able to properly pursue manufacturers, rather than being blocked by technical legal barriers.
• Equip regulators with the powers they need to compel action, and bring the cladding safety crisis to an end. It is unacceptable that the current regime lacks the severe sanctions needed to punish those who continuously and egregiously block remediation.
• Introduce a new legal duty to remediate, compelling those responsible for the safety of their buildings, such as freeholders, to identify, assess, and fix their buildings without delay. Those responsible must act, or face the consequences, including criminal prosecution, in the most egregious and severe cases.
• Mandate how external wall assessments are carried out, to ensure a nationally consistent approach to remediation work, and introduce an 11-18 metre register to identify all remaining buildings requiring 59 remediation work. For the first time, the Government will have a complete record of all medium-rise buildings in England – putting an end to the information gap and improving system readiness if new risks affect homes.
• Implement a remediation backstop to allow a third party, such as Homes England, to step in and carry out remediation work themselves, ensuring that residents have a route to remediation even where the responsible party is determined to ignore their duty to keep residents safe. This will be backed by tough sanctions so they cannot benefit, including cost recovery and potential sale of their interest.
• Fix gaps in previous legislation to protect residents and guarantee a route to remediation – even where ownership is absent, unclear, or negligent.”

Some of the gaps in the existing legislation should therefore be plugged, assuming the law comes into force in accordance with the Government’s stated policy intentions. We await publication of the draft Bill.

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