The government’s Office for Place has launched a recruitment campaign to find a senior architect or urban designer to oversee the development of “tools and processes” to help councils and communities set their own design codes.

Under the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which is currently going through parliament, local authorities will be required to produce design codes for local areas that will have “full weight” in decisions on new housing and other types of development.

The Office for Place, which is part of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, said the design-code lead would be tasked with producing elements of design codes and evidence-based “exemplar pattern books” that councils can download and adapt.

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