Angela Rayner softened planning guidelines to streamline plans to build homes on gardens. Officials unveiled the policy alongside a £10bn residential funding package.
This funding serves as the starting step of a broader development effort designed to deliver new homes across select areas.
Critics called the policy changes a comeback of garden grabbing. James Cleverly argued that the National Planning Policy Framework update amounts to a return to garden grabbing. The Telegraph labeled the decision as a flawed answer to Britain's housing crisis, while the government focuses on launching the new funding.