Owners of mid-rise flats with dangerous cladding will no longer have to pay to have it removed from their homes.
The cost will now be passed on to developers and cladding manufacturers, according to the government.
Michael Gove, secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, published his letter to the building industry on January 10th.
In it, he requested that companies and industry bodies work together with the government on a "new deal" to fix the cladding crisis.
They have until early March to agree on a plan to fund and fix unsafe cladding on buildings of around four to six-storeys high.
The estimated cost of work to fix cladding on these buildings is £4bn.
The government is paying for cladding to be replaced on blocks of flats that are above 18m high.
"It is neither fair nor decent that innocent leaseholders should be landed with bills they cannot afford, to fix problems they did not cause," Gove said.
Nicky Burridge - Zoopla Property News
