Angela Rayner softened planning guidelines to simplify efforts to construct houses on gardens. The government revealed the move alongside a £10bn housing investment.
This funding serves as the starting step of a major housing investment program aimed at providing new homes across chosen locations.
Detractors described the updated guidelines a return to garden grabbing. James Cleverly said the National Planning Policy Framework overhaul represents a return to garden grabbing. The Telegraph described the step as a hopeless solution to Britain's housing crisis, while the government focuses on launching the new funding.