Guidance

Cladding Safety Scheme overview

Updated 20 December 2024

Applies to England

Introduction and overview

The Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS) was formally announced under the previous name - Medium Rise Scheme (MRS) in November 2022.

The CSS will meet the cost of addressing life safety fire risks associated with cladding on residential buildings over 11m in height (11-18m in London).

The GLA will continue to operate the Building Safety Fund (BSF) for buildings over 18m in height in the Greater London Area.

Applications for both the CSS and BSF are made through the same online portal - the Building Remediation Hub, which is managed by Homes England.

The CSS will support applications for buildings where the applicant^{[footnote 1]} is unable to afford to carry out the work themselves or feels that it is not their responsibility to do so. An application for the CSS can be submitted by the person or organisation legally responsible for the building’s external repairs or their representative.

The CSS is part of the wider Building Remediation Portfolio whose objectives include ensuring that residents are safe from risks associated with fire safety.

The first step is to read this guidance, create an account and begin your application.

Once you have set up your account you can add an application for a building. If you have multiple buildings you can set up these applications under one account.

Once you submit the initial application information you’ll then be able to instruct a Fire Risk Appraisal of External Wall construction (FRAEW) from the CSS panel of Fire Risk Assessors. Please note that from 1 November 2023, only FRAEWs completed by a firm on our CSS panel will be accepted. Any Fire Risk Assessors interested in joining our CSS panel can email us at CSSCommercial@homesengland.gov.uk. The panel has been trained on the CSS process and requirements, and will ensure it’s undertaken in accordance with the PAS9980:2022^{[footnote 2]} methodology and that it’s summarised in an approved format. Further information about a FRAEW can be found here: PAS 9980:2022 Fire Risk Appraisal, BSI.

Once you have applied, you’ll receive information about the FRAEW process and panel members.

All multi-occupied residential buildings with two or more sets of domestic premises now need the Fire Risk Assessment under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 to include an assessment of their external walls. In many cases, this will not need a detailed review of their external walls. It should be obvious to a competent fire risk assessor that the risk of fire spread, particularly in buildings with brick or masonry walls, is sufficiently low that a FRAEW is not needed. In these cases, the fire risk assessor will normally address compliance of external wall construction with the Fire Safety Order as part of the routine Fire Risk Assessment process.

A FRAEW will be needed where the risk is known, or suspected, based on how the walls were built and the materials used. It will also need to be summarised for you using the CSS summary sheet – this will enable you to complete part two of your applications once you are in receipt of the FRAEW. All panel members are trained on this requirement.

Only the person or organisation legally responsible for a building’s external repair and maintenance can accept funding from the CSS via a grant funding agreement. This is also known as the ‘Responsible Entity’.^{[footnote 3]}

The Responsible Entity may be:

• the building’s freeholder ^{[footnote 4]} or head leaseholder
• a registered provider of social housing
• a management company (whether this operates for commercial gain or is managed by residents for the benefit of residents)
• a Right to Manage (RTM) Company ^{[footnote 5]} that has primary responsibility for the repair of the property

A Right to Manage Company is a company formed by qualifying leaseholders who manage the building or a self-contained part of a building in line with the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.

An applicant can be the Responsible Entity or their representative. If you are applying as a representative you will be required to submit evidence that you are legally able to act on their behalf. This guidance provides further information for the Responsible Entity or their authorised representative (referred to in this document as the applicant) to help them in making an application.

Driving the pace of remediation and enforcement

It is essential that life safety fire risks associated with cladding are addressed as quickly as possible to ensure that residents are safe and feel safe in their homes. We would encourage you to apply to the CSS as soon as possible. The sooner you begin the application process the sooner residents are made safe. We expect you to set out and follow a realistic, but ambitious, project delivery timetable. You must also keep Homes England fully informed about any changes to those timetables.

The government supports local authorities ^{[footnote 6]} and fire and rescue services to use their enforcement powers against buildings with fire risks associated with cladding on their external walls. Homes England and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) also hold powers to enforce Responsible Entities to carry out this process. Where projects are not progressing quickly enough, Homes England and MHCLG will work with local authorities and fire and rescue services to consider appropriate enforcement action.

Developer Pledge

On 10 January 2022, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities set out his approach to reset building safety in England. This established the principle that leaseholders must be protected and that the industry responsible should pay to fix the problems it created.

On 13 April 2022, the former Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced that leading residential developers had pledged to remediate life critical fire safety works in buildings over 11 metres that they have played a role in developing or refurbishing over the last 30 years in England.

As a result of these commitments, Homes England will not award funding to applications for buildings that a developer has agreed to fund. These buildings should not apply to the fund, they should work with the developer who has agreed to fund the costs of fixing the building.

Find more information about the Developer Pledge.^{[footnote 7]}

We’ll expect you to check who originally developed the building.^{[footnote 8]} If they have already signed up to the Developer Pledge, they will be expected to fix the cladding and the building will not be eligible for the fund. If the developer has not signed up but is still trading, we expect you to take reasonable steps to get them to fix the cladding. This would equally apply to other parties such as insurers, warranty providers, contractors and other professionals involved in the original construction.

This should not prevent you applying for funding, as we recognise the priority is to get the building fixed.

Consideration of leaseholders and residents throughout the remediation works

Applicants must consider the impact of building safety works on leaseholders and residents. They must take reasonable steps to minimise the impact on those living in the building and promote a liveable environment. This could include considering:

• phasing of work
• days / time of work
• access to common spaces
• maintaining ventilation and light
• measures to mitigate noise
• measures to increase privacy
• site-security plans

Applicants should comply with any government guidance on best practice in minimising the impact on leaseholders and residents living in buildings where works are taking place. We expect that those taking part in the remediation activity are part of the Considerate Constructors Scheme.

Keeping leaseholders and residents informed

Applicants must provide regular updates to leaseholders and residents at the following CSS milestones, and at any time upon their request:

• eligibility application submitted
• eligibility outcome
• works application submitted
• project procurement, including relevant timescales and potential causes of delays
• outcome of application, including receipt and confirmation that the grant funding agreement has been signed
• commencement of works, including an estimated start-on-site date and end date
• works completed

We’ll ask you to upload a copy of the communications you’ve sent to leaseholders and residents at each key stage. Please do not include any personal data about leaseholders and residents with this information.

Leaseholders and residents can find more information on the Cladding Safety Scheme – Information for leaseholders and residents page, which also includes the link to our feedback survey. We will expect all applicants to ensure that leaseholders and residents are aware of the survey and are encouraged to feed back on their experiences.

Leaseholders can get specialist advice to understand their rights through the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE). Although leaseholders should contact their Responsible Entity with queries about their specific building, LEASE may act as a point of contact for leaseholders with general questions about their leases, rights, or the CSS. More information on LEASE, including how to contact them, is available on their website.

Finally, the Building Safety Act 2022 includes provisions on engagement with leaseholders and residents, set out under Section 91. We will update this section of the guidance as provisions come into force.

We’ll ask you to upload a sample/copy of the communications you’ve sent to leaseholders and residents at each key stage. Please do not include any personal data about leaseholders and residents with this information.

Fund structure and administration

The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the Department for Communities Northern Ireland have given authority to Homes England to administer grant funding for the CSS. The responsibility for delivery of the grant programme has been delegated to Homes England.

The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA)

The BSA includes measures to protect certain qualifying leaseholders from the cost of works to remove cladding and external wall systems which pose a risk to life. It will also implement a number of policies to improve the regulation of building safety in England.

The CSS will offer funding for buildings which meet the technical eligibility criteria in this guidance and for applicants who meet the Responsible Entity criteria. This includes funding for works which leaseholders would ordinarily be obliged to pay for under their lease terms but who now qualify for protection from costs associated with works to cladding (as the holder of a qualifying lease under Schedule 8 of the Building Safety Act). See definition at para 119 of the Building Safety Act ss. (2) (a) – 2(d).

Eligibility: Who can make an application to the CSS?

In the private sector, applications are open to the Responsible Entity (or an agent acting on their behalf) that has a building that meets the eligibility criteria set out in the section below.

In the social sector, applications are open to the Responsible Entity for a building, in this instance usually the landlord will be a registered provider of social housing (RP) or a local authority (also an RP), that has a building that meets the eligibility criteria set out in the section below.

Following receipt of your application, Homes England will review your application to see if it meets the legal criteria for access to the CSS and to establish that you are the correct Responsible Entity.

Where there are separate multiple buildings which have the same Responsible Entity, please complete one application for each building. If multiple buildings form a single development which is being covered by the same works contract, this should be mentioned in each of the individual applications.

Where buildings are physically connected, we will consider the eligibility of each building based on whether it meets the qualifying height. Where physically connected buildings are in one ownership with common service charge arrangements, we will treat all buildings of eligible height as one application. If you have multiple connected buildings, please contact us before completing your application so we can agree whether we treat this as one or more applications.

Please do not make an application to the CSS if you do not intend to use taxpayer funding to complete the work.

We will not accept applications from leaseholders (unless they are the head leaseholder acting as the Responsible Entity), but they should encourage their landlords/building owners or managing agents for the building to register if the cost of eligible works would otherwise be passed to leaseholders.

Applicants can appoint a representative^{[footnote 9]} to lead their application day-to-day and this may be a managing agent or the project manager.

Responsible Entities who are companies registered in jurisdictions outside of the United Kingdom are eligible for the Cladding Safety Scheme. You should appoint a UK-based representative, typically a property managing agent, to act on your behalf in respect of the application. If you are eligible, we will pay the grant funding to the representative to administer on your behalf.

When we refer to a company number as part of your online application, we are referring to UK-registered companies and their company registration number that’s available from Companies House. If you are an overseas company you can contact us to discuss any further requirements – we will however check your company details against the overseas register.

Local authorities and registered providers applying for the Cladding Safety Scheme will be asked for their registration number as listed on the Regulator for Social Housing register.

Eligibility: Summary

For private sector applicants, funding will be available for buildings over 11m (and between 11 and 18m in London). The applicant must prove that they are legally responsible for the external repair and maintenance of the building, and will be responsible for completing works to ensure the safety of the building.

For buildings combined or joined to create larger blocks, but separated from any adjacent buildings by compartmentation and/or where there are limits to circulation, we’ll apply the height measurement separately to each building.

In the case of linked or physically connected buildings, only the building(s) over 11 metres tall are eligible for the fund.

If applicants have buildings linked or physically connected in the same ownership where one building is more than 18 metres tall and one or more is 11 to 18 metres tall, applications will be assessed for funding through the Cladding Safety Scheme even if the building that’s taller than 18 metres is in London. By physically connected the Scheme takes this to mean that buildings are connected but have their own internal stair core. This reflects the approach agreed with the Greater London Authority to deal with linked buildings of varying height in London. Outside of London this nuance is not relevant as the CSS processes buildings of all varying heights 11 metres and above.

The building must have cladding, using the definition of cladding set out in the PAS 9980:2022 guidance. If you have buildings with external walls that comprise only masonry or concrete construction, or in which combustible materials are limited to insulation within the cavity of double skin masonry walls, you should consider or take appropriate advice on whether you need a FRAEW. The PAS 9980 guidance suggests these systems are considered to pose a minimal risk to life.

To be eligible for funding, you must have a Fire Risk Appraisal of External Wall construction (FRAEW). This recommends work to address life safety fire risks associated with cladding and the external wall system, following the methodology set out in PAS 9980:2022 guidance.

As part of the application checks the CSS team will capture evidence from public records (e.g. Land Registry) that (unless the building is in the social sector and is applying on financial viability grounds) there is at least one lease for a single residential dwelling within the building that:

(a) was granted on market terms. Please note: shared ownership leases qualify but leases of units owned by social housing providers, where they are let on a week-to-week or month-to-month basis, would not.

(b) requires the property to be used exclusively for residential occupation; and

(c) was granted at a premium and was granted originally with a term of not less than 21 years.

All the above criteria must be met to be a qualifying lease.

For buildings in the private sector, funding will be available to cover the full cost of eligible works outlined in the FRAEW. This will be subject to Homes England assessing your full application. Homes England will usually utilise checks on Land Registry to ascertain such information.

Social sector applicants

The same eligibility criteria applies for social sector applications, unless a social sector applicant is applying on the grounds of financial viability described below. Social sector applicants can only apply for funding equivalent to the proportion of any overall costs that they would otherwise be entitled (under lease documents) to charge to and recover from residential leaseholders (whether market or shared ownership) or commercial leaseholders (operating businesses from commercial units in the building).

Funding will not be available where residential units in the building are leased to another social housing provider where those units are let on a week-to-week, or month-to-month basis and no service charges are recoverable on a through put basis. However, where another social housing operator in the building has let units on a long lease basis that permits it to recover service charge on a through put basis, funding will be provided.

Social sector applicants: Financial viability applications

Funding will be available to registered providers of social housing for the full cost of works to a building where the landlords’ financial viability or housing revenue account is threatened by the cost of the works. This includes local authorities who provide a social housing function.

For local authorities, we’ll need a declaration from a section 151 officer^{[footnote 10]} to confirm that the cost of the works would be a significant challenge for the housing revenue account. Please include the following text in your declaration:

‘We have obtained estimates of the costs for the remediation of cladding on the following building(s) [add building address(es) here or in a schedule] which are accounted for in the housing revenue account. We have determined that these costs cannot be met from within the housing revenue account, without breaching the local authority’s statutory duty, under the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 Part VI S76, to maintain a surplus on the housing revenue account, after taking account of:

• other essential expenditure on housing services
• existing contractual spending obligations
• available reserves and potential additional borrowing capacity’

To support your declaration, please provide a brief financial summary (no more than 2 pages) demonstrating that if your authority had to bear the costs that you are requesting are funded through the Cladding Safety Scheme, you would not be able to maintain a surplus on the housing revenue account after taking the costs outlined in your declaration into account.

Registered providers must send a business case agreed by their chief executive to Homes England setting out their financial position and impact of fixing the building concerned on their financial viability. The Regulator of Social Housing will be notified by Homes England if an applicant intends to apply via this route and both the regulator and Homes England will openly share information to validate the application.

Eligibility: Type of building

We will accept applications for funding from wholly residential or mixed use residential and commercial developments, in both the private and social sectors. The CSS will not offer funding for:

• buildings where works started on site before 10 January 2022
• non-residential buildings, for example hotels, hospitals, offices, and buildings where there are no residential leaseholders. This is likely to include purpose-built student housing and build to rent schemes (unless these are residential buildings applying from the social sector under the financial viability route)
• buildings under 11 metres in height
• buildings over 18 metres in height in London. These may be eligible for the Building Safety Fund. Please see the BSF guidance for more information on the fund’s criteria – the application route is the same.

The key objective of the CSS is to ensure that any life safety fire risks associated with cladding are addressed as quickly as possible to ensure that residents are safe, and feel safe, in their homes. Funding is available towards eligible costs that would be borne by residential or commercial leaseholders whether or not they benefit from protections against having to pay service charges towards equivalent works to fix cladding (via commitments in their lease).

Eligibility: Building height

The CSS is open to buildings over 11 metres (and up to 18 metres in London) when measured in accordance with the diagram below.

The measurement should be taken from the lowest external ground level to the finished floor level of the top occupied storey. Following this diagram involves measuring external ground level in the same location as you measure the height of the floor level of the top occupied storey. It does not include measuring any basement sections of the building below ground level, or measuring from low points externally involving access/lightwells etc, to basements where these are lower than ground level.

The ground levels used to measure the building height must be next to the application building and not at a remote part of the development.

If your building is of varying height, it is the height of the highest residential floor which is relevant when measured in accordance with the diagram above.

For the purposes of determining height eligibility for the Cladding Safety Scheme, the “top occupied storey” does not include:

• any top storeys or roofs consisting exclusively of plant rooms or maintenance areas
• non-residential facilities (such as storage or drying rooms or gyms)
• external amenity (such as bars or roof gardens)
• areas similar to these, even though people may regularly be present in such areas

You can find more detailed information about building height and how it should be measured in the Building Safety Act 2022 guidance.

We’ll ask for the height of your building as part of the Fire Risk Appraisal External Wall (FRAEW), which is submitted with your application. If the firm undertaking the FRAEW is unsure of the height from plans, drawings or their own checks, they may ask you to appoint someone such as a surveyor to check the height.

Financial support available

CSS Grant funding is awarded in up to two stages:

• pre-tender support funding, where awarded, is made available once the application has been submitted and approved as eligible, and you have signed the grant funding agreement^{[footnote 11]}

• full cost funding, awarded once the application has been approved following an eligible assessment and you have signed the grant funding agreement. Full costs funding has been submitted and reviewed. The full grant award, when made, will include any pre-tender support funding previously awarded and paid.^{[footnote 12]}

If your building is eligible and approved for pre-tender support, this is not confirmation that you will be granted full funding. Applicants should be aware that they may be potentially proceeding at risk until the point that the award of full funding has been confirmed by Homes England.

Pre-tender support is not provided for social sector applicants. Homes England expects registered providers and local authorities to have the funds and resources available to undertake pre-tender activities.

We can make project management advice and support available for applicants who need additional support to form a project team and to undertake design and tendering activity. Please discuss with Homes England if you believe you would benefit from this support. We may, in specific circumstances, insist that applicants make use of this support from an early stage to help plan and deliver their project.

What we will fund

The CSS will cover reasonable eligible costs for works required to address the life safety fire risks associated with cladding and external wall systems on eligible buildings in England as set out in a FRAEW commissioned by the applicant.

Works must have commenced on or after 10 January 2022 to ensure that they follow recommendations in a FRAEW assessment based on PAS9980:2022 methodology.

Homes England will employ costs consultants to check that your works costs are both eligible and reasonable.

Where a FRAEW has recommended action to address life safety fire risks associated with cladding, we will fund reasonable costs associated with these works on buildings eligible for the CSS. We cover a wide range of direct project costs for work to reduce the life safety fire risks associated with cladding, including:

• works directly related to the recommendations of a FRAEW (following PAS9980:2022 methodology) conducted on a building with cladding. This could be the removal and replacement of cladding (in whole or part), or mitigations where these are proposed as an alternative to the replacement of cladding (e.g. installation of sprinkler systems, smoke alarms, etc)
• access, where apportioned appropriately and directly related to eligible works (e.g. scaffolding, mast climber etc.)
• removal and disposal of existing cladding that is associated with fire risk
• replacement materials
• labour and reasonable costs to the contractor
• reimbursing costs of a FRAEW if it meets our eligibility requirements
• professional team fees in respect of qualifying items
• managing agents’ fees for managing works in the CSS and keeping leaseholders and residents informed about the works
• extraordinary technical requirements which incur extra costs essential to but not normally associated with removing and replacing cladding may be included. If you believe this applies to your works, please supply evidence for Homes England to consider your request
• legal costs which an applicant is unable to recover, having successfully taken legal action to recover the cost of works to cladding from the original owner, developer or cladding installer. The grant funding agreement requires applicants to take reasonable steps to recover the cost of works to cladding, where possible. Where an applicant is successful in taking legal action to cover these costs, Homes England accepts that any legal costs incurred should be deducted from any settlement money, but reserves its right to ensure that these costs have been reasonably incurred as part of the legal process

Reasonable costs must be informed by an industry standard approach to specification and procurement of works. Where costs are higher than expected, we’ll review them in detail, challenge them where necessary, and the level of funding offered may be reduced.

For residential buildings over 18 metres in height, Homes England expects any unsafe ACM cladding found to be removed and replaced, the costs of which will be eligible for CSS. Competent persons carrying out an FRAEW following the methodology set out in PAS9980:2022, should take this into account when undertaking the FRAEW. Any recommendations made in the FRAEW that recommends a different approach from this may require further clarification. For residential buildings under 18 metres in height, the recommendations in the FRAEW will be adopted in respect of any ACM cladding. ‘Unsafe’ means those cladding systems that have been identified as containing combustible materials (e.g. a polyethylene core in an aluminium composite panel) and which failed the series of BS8414 tests commissioned by the government over summer 2017.

What we will not fund

The Cladding Safety Scheme will not fund the cost of:

• wider redecoration, renewal, and general maintenance
• the replacement of windows or other elements
• maintenance, repair, or renewal costs
• building insurance premiums
• other necessary fire safety works which are not related to life safety fire risks associated with cladding or the external wall system, identified within your submitted FRAEW
• operational running or maintenance costs of measures installed using the CSS, including those associated with interim measures such as Waking Watch. (The CSS is designed to speed up the completion of essential works so that interim measures and the associated costs are no longer needed.) Applicants should consider the ongoing costs and maintenance of the measures being funded and consult leaseholders on any related costs that may arise in the future
• managing agents’ fees to deliver non-eligible works
• costs associated with any legal claims applicants may bring against third parties such as their professional team or chosen contractors, for example

If your professional team or chosen contractors do not perform their contractual obligations and, as a result, CSS funding is not properly applied, the Responsible Entity must take all steps necessary to recover any CSS funding. Homes England are not responsible for any legal fees or other costs associated with applicants taking legal action in these situations and reserves the right to receive any CSS funding recovered by the applicant.

Subsidy

The CSS will provide grant funding awards through a ‘subsidy scheme’.

Any grant Homes England provides under the CSS will take the form of a subsidy provided by a public body, and these are treated as permitted subsidies. For applicants, this means the de minimis subsidy thresholds that might otherwise restrict their ability to receive funding do not apply to the CSS.

Applicants will receive this public subsidy to make their building and residents safe, and to restore the value of leaseholders’ homes.

To meet subsidy transparency requirements, we must publish the details of any applicant which receives more than £100,000 of funding under the Fund (including cumulatively) on the subsidy transparency database.

We’ll publish:

• amount of subsidy received
• company name
• company registration number
• company size (based on the number of employees)
• whether the company is a provider of goods or services
• region
• sector

These details will be published when the final funding amount is confirmed at the end of the project.

Proportionality and the introduction of PAS 9980:2022

A Publicly Available Specification (PAS) has been developed by the British Standards Institution, named PAS 9980:2022. This contains recommendations and guidance tailored to the risks posed by fire spread over external walls; and provides tools for a grant certifying officer to carry out a Fire Risk Appraisal of External Wall construction (FRAEW).

PAS 9980:2022 sets out steps that can be taken to identify and assess risk factors as well as mitigation steps that might improve the risk rating of a building via a holistic and fact-based assessment of a building’s construction.

For this reason, the CSS will use the recommendations and advice provided by external wall assessors in a FRAEW for its funding decisions.

To apply for funding to the CSS, buildings must have a FRAEW following the methodology set out by PAS 9980:2022, which recommends how best to address life safety fire risks associated with cladding. This should be carried out by a panel member. You will receive details of the panel once you have completed the initial stage of your application.

Your FRAEW must cover all the following:

• provide at least the basic level of information set out in section 15 of PAS 9980:2022
• include a FRAEW summary template in the format supplied by Homes England with the information needed for the CSS application
• include a clear statement of the qualifications, competence, and experience of the assessor at the beginning
• follow the methodology set out in the PAS 9980:2022
• be conclusive about the level of risk against the benchmark criteria as set out in PAS 9980:2022
• propose a solution that will reduce the risk to a level that can be considered tolerable when assessed against the principles set out in PAS 9980:2022

The CSS will only fund works that are recommended in the FRAEW to address life safety fire risks. Recommendations in a FRAEW that are intended for other purposes, to ensure compliance with Building Regulations, address general building defects, improve EWS ratings or maintenance works for example, will not be funded.

Cost recovery

Where the developer who built or refurbished the building you are applying for is not able to fund the fire safety works, and where the Responsible Entity is also unable to do so, then the CSS will cover all reasonable eligible costs to address the life safety fire risks associated with cladding.

The applicant must demonstrate that they have taken all reasonable steps to recover these costs from those responsible through insurance claims, warranties or legal action etc where you have the practical and legal ability to do so. During the application process you will need to provide information on the steps you have taken and Homes England may also seek further information to ensure that all reasonable steps have been taken.

You may be able to recover costs from those responsible for historical defects on your building if construction was complete on or after 28 June 1992. This is because the Building Safety Act has extended the limitation period of the Defective Premises Act 1972 (DPA) to 30 years. You can find further information in section 135 of the act and its associated explanatory notes. Where funding has been provided under the CSS and you do successfully recover damages relating to eligible works, Responsible Entities must pay the government any amounts recovered. The payments to government can exclude any unrecovered legal fees that have been incurred when cost recovery efforts are successful. Costs you incur in unsuccessful attempts to recover costs from third parties cannot be met by CSS or paid from the grant funding awarded for eligible remediation works.

Where Responsible Entities have already recovered damages, they should deduct relevant amounts in their applications and provide an explanation as to how this has been calculated.

Homes England does not rule out seeking an assignment of relevant rights of action where it considers it would be appropriate to do so, which is a right afforded to Homes England under the grant funding agreement you will be asked to sign.

1. An applicant is the person who submits an application. The applicant may be the Responsible Entity, or a representative of the Responsible Entity. ↩

2. A code of practice which sets out a method for competent professionals to conduct Fire Risk Appraisals of External Wall construction (FRAEW) for existing multi-storey, multi-occupied residential buildings. ↩

3. The Responsible Entity is the party responsible for the external repair of the building and therefore the potentially eligible recipient of grant funding. ↩

4. A freeholder owns the freehold of a property which can include a building and other property or land. ↩

5. Distinct from a Resident-led Organisation, a Right to Manage Company is where a firm is appointed by leaseholders to take over the management of their building. Further details on the right to manage. ↩

6. The elected body of local government for a particular geographical area. ↩

7. The agreed principles between each participant developer and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ↩

8. The original owner of the building who was responsible for the building programme and design of the building. ↩

9. Somebody authorised to act for and on behalf of the Responsible Entity in the Application to the CSS. ↩

10. The officer appointed under section 151 of the 1972 Act to administer the council’s financial affairs. ↩

11. An advance grant funding payment given to applicants to fund the design works and obtain a costed schedule of construction works as required for submitting their works package, a document that provides full contractor scheduling and cost details for remediation works. ↩

12. Financial support given to applicants to fund the design works and obtain a costed schedule of construction works as required for submitting their works package, a document that provides full contractor scheduling and cost details for remediation works. ↩