Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill: business and regulatory impact assessment

Objectives

3. The Bill will enable delivery of the Programme by:

a) Requiring Ministers to establish a Cladding Assurance Register containing information on buildings which have been through a Single Building Assessment and any required remediation.

b) Creating powers for Ministers to enable them to arrange for Single Building Assessments to be undertaken to assess risks in buildings within scope of the Programme. The Bill defines the meaning of a Single Building Assessment and allows Ministers to specify the standards against which such an assessment should be undertaken.

c) Creating powers for Ministers to arrange for remediation work, which is identified through that Single Building Assessment, to be undertaken. This will include in urgent cases where the risk is immediate as well as a power to require occupants to evacuate buildings.

d) Creating powers for Ministers to require information from a person to allow them to carry out a Single Building Assessment or maintain the Cladding Assurance Register.

e) Establishing a Responsible Developers Scheme to support collaborative engagement with developers and ensure that they address, or contribute towards addressing, the costs of remediating the buildings they have developed which are within scope of the Programme.

The powers of remediation and the power to carry out a Single Building Assessment in the Bill can be utilised without the consent of owners where appropriate notice has been given, or if the work is urgent, where notice has been given as permitted by the circumstances.