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The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Find registered designs in the UK
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document B including 2020 and 2022 amendments.
Decision for applicant Frederica Pulsford against registration number 14105183, applicant successful.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. It relates to the definition of higher-risk...
Supports effective delivery of planning application process.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a proposed new building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)...
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
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