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Summary

This release of Official Statistics is the first in an annual series summarising Local Planning Authorities' reported assessment of the '5 year land supply' for housing. This release reports on the land supply for the 5 years from April 2009.

The statistics include:

• The number of and proportion of authorities which reported having identified at least a sufficient supply of sites for the housing requirements for 5 years from April 2009,
• Each local planning authority's reported proportion of the '5 year housing requirements' that can be accommodated on available, suitable and achievable sites.

As at April 2009:

• 86 per cent of all Local Planning Authorities reported to have identified sufficient sites to supply 100 per cent or more of the housing requirement for the next 5 years.
• The North East, North West, West Midlands and London had the highest proportions of Local Planning Authorities (91 per cent each) reporting at least a sufficient supply of land for housing requirements over the next 5 years.
• The East Midlands and the South West had the lowest proportion of Local Planning Authorities (78 per cent each) reporting at least a sufficient supply of land for housing requirement over the next 5 years.

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