Funding will be provided to responsible entities who will be responsible for remediation, but the fund will be for the benefit of leaseholders who would otherwise incur the cost through service charge arrangements.
A responsible entity may be the building freeholder or head leaseholder or a management company who has primary responsibility for the repair of the property.
Responsible entities are hereby invited to apply for grant funding to replace unsafe ACM cladding by submitting the name of responsible entity; the name of development; and evidence of ACM cladding at the development to the following mailbox:
Evidence may take the form of any of the following:
- a copy of the Building Research Establishment’s (BRE) screening test result for a sample of the cladding from the building;
- documentary evidence that the type of ACM matches the specification of ACM cladding which failed the UK Government’s BS8414 tests; or
- NI Fire & Rescue Service or Local Building Control Authority having notified DoF that unsafe ACM cladding has been confirmed.
This call for evidence will remain open until midnight on 31 October 2021.