Residential apartment buildings with external cladding photographed at sunset, used to suggest the need for cladding remediation on high-rise buildings across the UK.

The Remediation Bill: What It Really Changes, and What It Doesn’t

The King’s Speech 2026 gave it one sentence. One hundred and twenty-four characters. “My Government will bring forward a Bill to speed up remediation for people living in homes with unsafe cladding.” That brevity is misleading. Behind it sits a substantial new addition to the building safety legislative programme that has run since Grenfell. In places it goes…