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The Design Council was a non-departmental public body of BIS, but is now an independent organisation
Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Use this form to request a certified copy of a design.
Helping public health practitioners conducting evaluations – developing a logic model to represent how your intervention works.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Naming, structuring and scoping your service, prototyping, using design patterns and design training.
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Improving the cyber security of consumer Internet of Things Report
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
One-day GDS Academy course on the importance of research and design in government.
An overview of our Design Code Pathfinder programme.
Use this form to renew a design registration.
The agreement for a first-of-a-kind test rig will provide critical data for the design and development of Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP).
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
Use this form to inform us that you do not want your existing registered community design to be registered in the United Kingdom.
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