Campaigners want Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove to get behind proposals for homes to be transformed into multi-storey townhouses and flats.
Champions of “Buno” – Build Up, Not Out – want anyone to be able to extend their urban home upwards without further planning permission.
The Government aims to build 300,000 homes every year.
But Conservative MP John Penrose says “Buno” would break the “stranglehold of the big developers” and deliver a host of benefits.
Claiming this would deliver the “biggest single creation of new living space this country has ever seen,” he added: “It would be greener because people could live closer to their jobs and commute less.
“We’d halt urban sprawl by cutting the pressure from builders to concrete over green fields.
“It would mean people struggling to own or rent would suddenly find they’d got far more choices.”
A Government spokeswoman said: “Our housing plan will allow us to deliver more homes in the places people want them.We have already introduced rights which allow people to extend upwards to create homes and extra living space.”
‘Live closer to their jobs’