Housebuilders are to be handed a deadline to begin fixing dangerous cladding on blocks of flats, seven years after the Grenfell Tower disaster.
A five-point plan addressing slow progress in remediation work is to be put to developers by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, according to the Financial Times.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is expected to meet housebuilding bosses next month to firm up the plan.
This will see housebuilders given six months to assess where remediation is needed and a further 12 months to begin work.
It comes after the final report into the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster, in which 72 people were killed, was released last month.
The government has since alluded to potential criminal sanctions against companies failing to replace dangerous cladding, with Rayner previously saying she was “astonished” about how many had not begun remediation work
“The pace of remediation has been too slow and we are urgently looking at all options to ensure residents no longer have to live in unsafe buildings,” a housing ministry spokesperson said.