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A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
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)...
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Finger-block baseline designs for a 1,850 place 11 to 18 secondary school.
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.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
Find registered designs in the UK
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.
Finger-block baseline designs for a 1,200 place 11 to 16 secondary school with a music and sports specialism.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
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