Do you live in a property with unsafe cladding?
Flat owners should not have to pay for dangerous cladding to be removed from their buildings, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said.
The time limit for leaseholders to sue builders over defective flats will also be extended from six to 30 years. Campaigners, however, said many people living in buildings under 18m would be "saddled with debt" under the scheme. It's estimated that the average cladding bill is around £40,000 per leaseholder.Cladding is the process of adding a new layer of material to the outside of a building.
But some cladding has been found to be combustible, prompting a building safety crisis affecting thousands of homeowners.The cost of making a block of flats safe is supposed to be absorbed by the owners of the whole building and the land .These leaseholders have to pay for extra fire safety measures - sometimes including patrol officers - until cladding or insulation is stripped off.
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