West Midlands Remediation Acceleration Plan: Pathway to Publication Statement

Background and Purpose

The WMCA, in partnership with national and regional partners, will be setting out a plan to fix unsafe buildings in the West Midlands.

This follows on from the Grenfell Inquiry Report, released in September 2024, when Mayoral Combined Authorities were asked to convene partners to drive progress in their regions and ensure every resident has a safe home.

The West Midlands Remediation Acceleration Plan, collaboratively developed with the West Midlands Fire & Rescue Service, local authorities and Government, will set out how work to remediate unsafe buildings will be quickened, how all unsafe buildings will be identified and how residents’ experience can be improved.

Key Contents

Central to achieving these objectives is the creation of a West Midlands Remediation Acceleration Unit, which will define an accelerated remediation pathway for the region. This unit will:

1. Bolster enforcement capacity at the West Midlands Fire & Rescue Service and Birmingham City Council
2. Drive data integration through the National Remediation System to ensure all agencies have a single version of the truth and robust monitoring mechanisms
3. Establish clearer roles and responsibilities between enforcing authorities – ensuring clearer monitoring and oversight arrangements and proactive engagement of entities responsible for remediation

The plan will bring together key agencies to deliver these objectives. WMCA is continuing to work with partners and will publish the plan in the Autumn.

The WMCA and key partners have also started to engage with residents and leaseholders impacted by unsafe buildings and will continue to do so as we develop the plan.  

The plan will focus on the high-rise residential buildings in the West Midlands, specifically:

1. 18m+ buildings: WMCA will aim to ensure that by the end of 2029 all known 18m+ buildings, with unsafe cladding, will be remediated. 

1. 11m+ buildings: WMCA will aim to ensure that every 11m- 18m+ building with unsafe cladding will either have been remediated of this cladding, have a completion date notified, or landlords will be the recipient of local enforcement actions. 

This regional approach is complemented the National Remediation Acceleration Plan, published by the Ministry for Housing, Communities & Local Government, which you can find here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/remediation-acceleration-plan-update-july-2025

The WMCA has received funding from the Ministry for Housing, Communities & Local Government, enabling greater capacity in key agencies to tackle unsafe buildings, and will continue to collaborate on national and regional activities to ensure key objectives are met.

Key Information for Residents, Leaseholders and Responsible Entities

The Building Safety Regulator have launched the Your Home Your Safety campaign to help residents to understand how they can get in touch with any concerns they have about their building – to sign up to the newsletter, raise a building safety concern or learn more about your rights as a resident click here

Homes England have a Tell us Tool for residents to provide information about buildings they think should be receiving funding to remove cladding – if you think a building should apply for funding from the Cladding Safety Scheme, complete the short form here