The government’s plan to speed up building safety remediation of social housing blocks will not work unless funding and balance sheet capacity in the sector is increased, the G15 group of housing associations has warned.

Angela Rayner yesterday announced the government’s ‘remediation acceleration plan’ with the aim of ensuring buildings in government-funded schemes over 18 metres in height with unsafe cladding are remediated by the end of 2029, while those over 11 metres will have a date for completion.