The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) now encourages councils to use more design codes following the guidance set out in the National Model Design Code. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act also requires authority-wide design codes.

Create Streets have pioneered the use of authority and area wide design codes to support more popular and sustainable development, and are working on a range right now across the country. You can see more about some Design Codes and Guides we've delivered here (more on the way).

Two members of the team lecture on design codes at Oxford University.

'We have started using the design code with developers and we are finding that the quality of planning applications has gone up considerably since. It’s helping us implement the changes we’ve been wanting for a long time.'  A District Council

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