The remediation of 285 social housing buildings with life-critical fire safety defects will not begin for more than a decade, the Regulator of Social Housing says in its latest quarterly survey published today. 

Almost all (99.9%) of the 17,391 relevant buildings reported have had fire-risk assessments, with life-critical fire safety (LCFS) defects relating to the external wall system identified in 1,897 (10.9%) cases.