{"id":5852,"date":"2025-06-09T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2025-06-09T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:47:00","slug":"scotland-eyes-3bn-cladding-fix-as-levy-targets-house-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/scotland-eyes-3bn-cladding-fix-as-levy-targets-house-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland eyes \u00a33bn cladding fix as levy targets house builders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cost of fixing unsafe cladding on homes across Scotland could hit \u00a33.1bn, according to new government estimates.<\/p>\n

Ministers have published the Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill, which proposes a tax on certain new residential developments to raise \u00a330m a year towards the vast remediation programme.<\/p>\n

Latest figures reveal up to 1,450 buildings \u2013 including 250 high-rises \u2013 may need works, nearly double the original estimate. Full surveys are underway, with 107 buildings being examined in a pilot phase.<\/p>\n

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The Scottish Government expects the cladding remediation bill to land somewhere between \u00a31.7bn and \u00a33.1bn over 15 years, with inflation and optimism bias making up nearly half of the projected cost.<\/p>\n

Public finance minister Ivan McKee said: \u201cWe\u2019re committed to doing what\u2019s right to fix buildings with unsafe cladding and ensure the cost doesn\u2019t fall on homeowners.\u201d<\/p>\n

The levy mirroring a similar charge already introduced in England will apply from April 2027 if the legislation is passed by Holyrood.<\/p>\n

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It will exempt social and affordable housing developments and include a review clause to adjust targets depending on housing market conditions.<\/p>\n

The UK Government agreed to devolve powers for a Scottish levy last year. If approved, it will offer a critical funding stream for buildings where no original developer has taken responsibility for defects.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/HGvoChm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cost of fixing unsafe cladding on homes across Scotland could hit \u00a33.1bn, according to new government estimates. Ministers have published the Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill, which proposes a tax on certain new residential developments to raise \u00a330m a year towards the vast remediation programme. Latest figures reveal up to 1,450 buildings \u2013 including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5853,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions\/5853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}