A last ditch bid is underway to include the properties of all landlords in the programme of financial help to remove dangerous cladding,.

Current government plans mean individual landlords who are leaseholders renting out more than one property will be excluded from proposals pledging that no leaseholder in a building over 11 metres in height will have to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding.

However, an amendment tabled to the Building Safety Bill by the Conservative Peer Lord Naseby will, if passed, mean all leaseholders are treated equally.

This development follows a parliamentary motion tabled by the Conservative MP Sir Peter Bottomley which calls for buy to let landlords and owner-occupier leaseholders to be treated the same.

Under current government plans, there would be delays to remedial work if some leaseholders – the larger landlords, for example – had to pay for their own work to be done.

The National Residential Landlords Association has been campaigning to end the damaging decision to treat leaseholders differently and welcomes these Naseby amendment.

NRLA chief executive Ben Beadle says: “We warmly welcome Lord Naseby’s amendment and call on peers to support his proposal.

“It makes no sense for the government to treat landlord leaseholders so differently to owner-occupiers. Both groups have faced the same problems at the hands of developers, and therefore both should be treated equally. This amendment would go a long way to rectifying this unfairness.”

Peers will today start to consider and debate amendments to the Building Safety Bill at Committee Stage.