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What is the role of place quality in creating and stewarding prosperous and safe high streets?
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The analysis will feed into a plan that shows the areas of the authority to which the code will apply along with the distribution of the area types.
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The following section relates to all development within the area covered by the design code or guide regardless of area type. All of this must be referenced back to a policy within the local plan.
An overview of our Design Code Pathfinder programme.
Design codes need to be based on an analysis of the area covered. The purpose of the analysis is to understand the area and inform a vision that will, in turn, form the basis for the code.
Office for Place established in Stoke-on-Trent to help councils create beautiful, successful and enduring places.
National Model Design Code Glossary
Office for Place support, train, celebrate and advise best practice in the design of the built environment.
There are many other guides to urban design and placemaking that provide more detailed guidance on the themes set out within this document to inform local design codes.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
The Office for Place are looking to work with local authorities who have an adopted design code and are keen to update or expand it.
Design codes need to be based on a vision for how a place will develop in the future, as set out in the local plan. This vision needs to be developed with the local community and is likely to be an important part of the comm…
The first step is to decide on the scope of the code, in particular which parts of the local area it needs to cover, and which policy areas it addresses.
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