Angela Rayner softened planning guidelines to simplify efforts to build homes on gardens. Officials unveiled the policy alongside a £10bn housing investment.
This funding represents the first wave of a larger building push aimed at providing new homes across designated communities.
Opponents labeled the policy changes a revival of garden grabbing. James Cleverly argued that the National Planning Policy Framework rewrite amounts to a return to garden grabbing. The Telegraph described the step as a hopeless solution to Britain's housing crisis, while the government concentrates on rolling out the new funding.