Angela Rayner softened planning guidelines to streamline plans to build homes on gardens. Officials announced the decision alongside a £10bn housing investment.
This funding represents the first wave of a larger building push aimed at providing new homes across select areas.
Detractors described the updated guidelines a comeback of garden grabbing. James Cleverly stated that the National Planning Policy Framework rewrite represents a return to garden grabbing. The Telegraph called the move a hopeless solution to Britain's housing crisis, while the government focuses on launching the new funding.