Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Housing secretary Angela Rayner has said 'building up' will help solve the UK's housing crisis. (AFP via Getty Images) (DARREN ...

A plan to allow homeowners to build bigger extensions without planning permission has sparked fears of 'civil war' on Britain's streets. Michael Gove, the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ...

Local councils will be blocked from preventing loft conversions and extra storeys being added to family homes under Angela Rayner's massive overhaul of planning laws. The Housing Secretary said that ...

Labour is set to introduce a host of reforms to planning laws in a bid to resolve the UK's “acute housing crisis”, including a relaxing of rules on building loft conversions and extra storeys. The ...