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The home of Office for Place on GOV.UK. Helping to create beautiful, successful and enduring places that foster a sense of community, local pride and belonging.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Do you want to play a leadership role supporting the creation and stewardship of popular, healthy, beautiful and sustainable places? The Office for Place is seeking Non-Executive Board Members to provide independent advic…
The Office for Place is funding and supporting 10 new areas in England as part of the Design Code Pathfinder Programme.
Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
Helping to create beautiful, successful and enduring places that foster a sense of community, local pride and belonging.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The Office for Place will help shift how the planning system is used, as a shield against the worst to its future role as a champion of the best.
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 process of preparing a local design code is based on seven steps
The Commission was convened to advise government on how to promote and increase the use of high-quality design for new build homes and neighbourhoods.
The Office for Place is a new arms-length body to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
When preparing design codes, communities need to be involved at each stage of the process.
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.
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…
An overview of our Design Code Pathfinder programme.
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.
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…
This section describes guidance for area types that authorities should consider when creating design codes or guides.
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