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

The ‘golden rules’ aim to balance ‘the need for housing with the protection of green belt land’. Photograph: Ian Lamond/Alamy

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.

What does the report say?