The scheme, set to be announced in the Budget, is aimed at boosting the supply of new homes in the UK after 2010 saw housebuilding fall to the lowest level in a peacetime year since 1923.
The Government believes that if all empty office space in the UK was converted into residential property it could create 250,000 new homes and save nearly £140m in planning system costs.
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