All Design code articles
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NewsHousing design advisory body Office for Place to be shut down, Pennycook announces
Interim chair Nicholas Boys Smith said move to scrap body risks ministers “marking their own homework” on housing design
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CommentWhat should co-design in the local planning process look like?
Rather than standardising physical parameters, authority-wide design codes should be utilised by the next government as a “patchwork of participation”, writes Ben Derbyshire
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CommentThe Office for Place can help embed quality design in our neighbourhoods
Now that design codes have been made a mandatory part of local plans, Ben Derbyshire considers what a good code actually looks like – and how it might work best in practice
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CommentMeeting the design code challenge
Design codes are now required to be embedded in local plans. Ben Derbyshire explains what local authorities and the housing sector need to consider.
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In FocusDesign codes are coming but will they deliver?
Earlier this month Berkeley Homes went to war with Michael Gove over the design quality of a scheme in Kent, but compulsory local design codes are meant to help avoid such conflict. Will they work?
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NewsGove pledges to use planning powers stop ugly housing
Secretary of state says design of too many developments is “disappointing”
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NewsGovernment appoints resi developer as new chief architect
The MD of Solid Space and former head of urban design at Cabe to replace Andy von Bradsky
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NewsNew housing design tsar criticised for support for PD
Beauty advocate Nicholas Boys Smith accused of piloting “Trojan horse” for planning deregulation
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NewsOffice for Place is ‘not Cabe 2’ says government design advisor
Chair of board setting up new body says it is set to take role accrediting new local design codes
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CommentWe are on the verge of a housing design renaissance
Larger housing developments would greatly benefit from proposed design codes, says Stephen Taylor
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NewsCity councils among pilots for new local design codes
Test programme is part of government’s push to force developers to build beautifully
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CommentRobert Jenrick’s secret plan to solve the housing crisis
The rhetoric around street trees distracts from the real intent behind the government’s new design code, says Paul Smith