The City of Melbourne has given the 400 owners of apartments in the LaCrosse residential building in Docklands a year to replace the building's non-compliant cladding with panels that meet Australian fire-safety standards.

Individual owners of the 328 units and the body corporate will bear the burden – which could range between $300 and $450 per square metre in materials and another $300 per sq m in scaffolding, fixing and other costs – of replacing panels that contribute to the rapid spread of a fire from the eighth floor to the roof last November.