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<p>We are committed to a plan-led system that delivers the homes this country needs,
while protecting our precious environment. Up-to-date plans provide a sound basis
for assessing land supply, and it is only where plans have become out-of-date that
our standard method for assessing housing need is used instead. What this means in
practice will depend on the amount of land with permission in each area, the protections
that apply and the stage an emerging plan has reached, and so there is no national
estimate of the impact. The National Planning Policy Framework protects emerging plans
in certain circumstances, even in the absence of a five-year land supply, where a
development would significantly undermine the plan.</p><p> </p>
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