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The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
Part of a series collecting key facts and figures on new homes and regeneration.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
What structural alterations are, when and how to apply for permission, how they may affect your home's value and what you owe on your equity loan.
Guidance on the ventilation of indoor spaces to reduce the spread of respiratory infections, including coronavirus (COVID-19).
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as a wide range of benefits to the woodland owner and society.
Guidance on managing and using bed rails safely.
How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
How to meet your new sponsor and their family, while staying safe online. Also information about how to stay safe in the UK.
A checklist of things to consider before you can offer support to someone from Ukraine.
Information about how to make your guests feel more comfortable in their new home, set expectations about how to live together and communicate with your guests.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
This document is an initial set of starter homes design exemplars put together by the government’s new Design Advisory Panel.
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