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National model design code. Part 1 the coding process
Publication Year
2021
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Sets out the framework, purpose, objectives and application of the National model design code, created as part of the Government's planning practice guidance and to promote successful design. The coding process has 3 broad segments for preparing a local design code: analysis, vision, and code, which can be expanded to 7 steps: scoping and baseline, design vision, coding plan and masterplanning, guidance for area types and general guidance.
Document History
Read with: National design guide. Planning practice guidance for beautiful, enduring and successful places (MHCLG, 2021).
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
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London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
