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The Office for Place is a new arms-length body to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Office for Place support, train, celebrate and advise best practice in the design of the built environment.
A blog post on the Office for Place’s latest event, where our panel discussed the role of place quality in creating and stewarding prosperous and safe high streets and town centres, written by advisory board members Nicholas…
There are many other guides to urban design and placemaking that provide more detailed guidance on the themes set out within this document to inform local design codes.
If a design code is being prepared for larger sites, it may be necessary to produce a masterplan as part of the design coding exercise. This masterplan will establish a new street network, decide which area types apply, alon…
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
The process of preparing a local design code is based on seven steps
An Office for Place event in conjunction with RIBA discussing how government and architects can collaborate to make healthy, sustainable communities, fit for the future.
What is the role of place quality in creating and stewarding prosperous and safe high streets?
The Office for Place is funding and supporting 10 new areas in England as part of the Design Code Pathfinder Programme.
Do you want to play a leadership role supporting the creation and stewardship of popular, healthy, beautiful and sustainable places? The Office for Place is seeking Non-Executive Board Members to provide independent advic…
The Office for Place are looking to work with local authorities who have an adopted design code and are keen to update or expand it.
Design codes need to be based on a vision for how a place will develop in the future, as set out in the local plan. This vision needs to be developed with the local community and is likely to be an important part of the comm…
The first step is to decide on the scope of the code, in particular which parts of the local area it needs to cover, and which policy areas it addresses.
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