Closed consultation

Alternative cost recovery for remediation works: consultation on proposals to make regulations and statutory guidance

From:
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Published
2 February 2023
This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

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Summary

​​This consultation seeks views on statutory guidance and policy proposals for legislation that would create a duty for landlords to take reasonable steps to explore all alternative cost recovery avenues before passing remediation costs on to leaseholders.​

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Consultation description

This consultation seeks views on statutory guidance and policy proposals for legislation that would create a duty for landlords to take reasonable steps to ensure that all alternative avenues of cost recovery have been explored before passing remediation costs on to leaseholders.

​This consultation seeks views on proposals for:

  • ​the buildings and defects to which the new duty should apply
  • ​the detailed steps that landlords should follow before passing on remediation costs to leaseholders
  • ​the information that landlords must pass onto leaseholders to demonstrate they have complied with this duty

Documents

Alternative cost recovery for remediation works: consultation on proposals to make regulations and statutory guidance under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985

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Draft statutory guidance

PDF, 326 KB, 13 pages

Impact assessment

PDF, 430 KB, 26 pages

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Published 2 February 2023

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