Building owners would be banned from making residents pay for post-Grenfell fire safety works under a law set to be backed by peers today.
Leaseholders in some high-rise blocks have faced five-figure bills to remove unsafe cladding in the wake of the Grenfell fire.
Now an amendment to the Fire Safety Bill would ban owners from passing on the cost of remedial work to leaseholders or tenants.
Lib Dem peer Kath Pinnock, who put forward the amendment in the House of Lords, said: "The fact that freeholders are passing on the remediation costs is leaving many with the choice of either facing bankruptcy, as they‘re forced to pay huge fees, or selling their home for a lot less value due to the work needed to be done. “Ministers must do more to
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