Government plans to rectify dangerous cladding are “riddled with confusion and risk needless delays to addressing the problem”, say private landlords.

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has spoken out in response to plans by Michael Gove to push developers to pay for remedial action to tackle dangerous cladding on buildings between 11 and 18 metres high.

Ministers have admitted they have yet to decide if buy-to-let landlords will be included within the scheme.

A parliamentary answer the Housing Minister has confirmed that those who sublet properties because they cannot sell them due to dangerous cladding will be included in the Government’s scheme. But he also stated that a decision about extending it to buy-to-let landlords has yet to be taken.

The NRLA is warning that the Government’s plans are “not treating all leaseholders equally.”

In the process they also risk delaying remedial work on dangerous cladding as the Government seeks to understand who may be an accidental or buy-to-let landlord, the NRLA say.

Ben Beadle, Chief Executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, said: “It makes no sense to be treating leaseholders who are landlords so differently to owner-occupiers.

“Both groups have faced the same problems, and both should be treated equally. We are calling on the Government to rectify this injustice as a matter of urgency.”