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Building safety compliance in Kensington and Chelsea

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has a substantial higher-risk building stock requiring rigorous Building Safety Act compliance.

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Key facts

  • Kensington and Chelsea has an estimated 17,154 residential units in higher-risk buildings; exact building counts are taken from the BSR register.

Building safety in Kensington and Chelsea

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea contains a mix of high-rise social housing and mansion blocks. Building safety here has been under particular national focus since the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017.

The local authority in Kensington and Chelsea is the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. For higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Regulator is the building control authority and holds the register of occupied HRBs - not the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

The remediation picture

As at 30 April 2026, 4,378 residential buildings 11m and over with unsafe cladding were being monitored in the government's remediation programmes across England - 55% had started or completed works. Kensington and Chelsea sits within one of the largest concentrations of these buildings in the country.

Source: MHCLG Building Safety Remediation monthly data release, April 2026.

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