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This is an exciting opportunity to join the Office for Place in Stoke-on-Trent, a new arms-length body to DLUHC. The Office for Place will lead and shape the work that will enable it to support councils and communities to cr…
The Office for Place is funding and supporting 10 new areas in England as part of the Design Code Pathfinder Programme.
On 19 March 2024 the Office for Place held its first conference, in our new home of Stoke-on-Trent. A week on from the day, we wanted to share some details on the event, alongside some reflections from our chair, Nicholas Bo…
The Office for Place is a new arms-length body to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
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.
Join the Office for Place to hear more about the Design Code Pathfinder programme, and the work our local authority and neighbourhood planning group partners have undertaken to deliver more healthy, beautiful, popular and su…
Office for Place established in Stoke-on-Trent to help councils create beautiful, successful and enduring places.
A blog post on the Office for Place’s latest event, where our panel discussed the role of place quality in creating and stewarding prosperous and safe high streets and town centres, written by advisory board members Nicholas…
This guidance sets out possible contents for a design code, modelled on the ten characteristics of well-designed places set out in the National Design Guide.
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.
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.
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.
This section describes guidance for area types that authorities should consider when creating design codes or guides.
When preparing design codes, communities need to be involved at each stage of the process.
National Model Design Code Glossary
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.
If a design code is being prepared for larger sites, it may be necessary to produce a masterplan as part of the design coding exercise. This masterplan will establish a new street network, decide which area types apply, alon…
The process of preparing a local design code is based on seven steps
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