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This advice explains why good design is important, what success might look like and how it might be delivered in applications for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP).
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Outcome of request to invalidate, hearing held on 29 April 2025.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
How to make sure that your products are properly checked for conformity and your technical documents are managed correctly.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Designs correction of error notices are used to notify any third party of a proposed correction of a clerical error made by the registry prior to a correction taking place
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