UK housing crisis: what does Labour’s shake-up of planning rules involve?

Government report outlines how it intends to build 1.5m homes by the end of the parliament

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The UK has a housing crisis. Ministers want to build 1.5m new homes by the end of the parliament, and the only way to do this, the government argues, is to overhaul planning rules. On Thursday, the government published an 82-page National Planning Policy Framework report outlining what it hopes to do – and how.