Failure to have 5 year housing land supply - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)

I don't see how, particularly when the LPA is failing so significantly.  Look at what para 49 NPPF says.  "[R]elevant policies" are deemed out of date if no 5 year supply.  And what is the status of this interim housing policy?  Is it a development plan document?  What steps did it go through prior to adoption?  The interim policy might help to show what the LPA is doing about the failure (see what the Court of Appeal said in Suffolk Coastal about this on the question of weight to be given to out of date policies, including how short of the target and what is being done about it) but this is still a significant failure.