Homes left empty for more than six months could be seized by councils under radical plans set to be endorsed by Labour this week, The Sunday Telegraph understands.

Momentum, the pro-Corbyn campaign group, will on Sunday throw its weight behind proposals to hand local authorities wide-reaching compulsory purchase order powers to take ownership of empty homes.

The proposals have been submitted to the party’s annual conference in a joint push with the the youth organisation Young Labour in a bid to make it official policy.

The motion, obtained by the Telegraph, also calls for the requisition of "unoccupied tower blocks in London" and cites Berlin and Vancouver as examples of where this has occurred.

It goes on to state that Labour should "Requisition empty private homes by Compulsory Purchase Order...as well as the worst private rented sector properties and vacant land plots to conduct land assembly and to provide temporary accommodation."