The Building Safety Fund (BSF) was set up to help pay the costs of fixing historic life safety fire risks associated with cladding on high-rise residential buildings over 18 metres high.
An organisation that has the legal obligation or right to carry out remediation work on their building can apply to the BSF. Such organisations are known as ‘responsible entities’. A responsible entity could be:
- the freeholder
- the head leaseholder
- a management company
- a Right To Manage (RTM) company
- a social housing provider
The BSF is part of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s wider Building Safety Programme which aims to ensure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe and feel safe in their homes, both now and in the future.
The BSF was opened for applications in 2020 and opened again for new applications on 28 July 2022 for eligible buildings without a funding solution in place.
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