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This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
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.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
The design community is for anyone who wants to discuss and learn about the role of design in government.
Change name, address or agent on the design register or cancel your design
One-day GDS Academy course on the importance of research and design in government.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Introduction to content design.
Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
Use this form to apply to register one or more designs for which registration has been deferred.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
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