regulation and governance

Town, City and Regional design guidance

Local Authority guidance

Aberdeen Footdee Design Guide (prevent further architectural erosion of the listed buildings)

Basingstoke Extending Your Home

Basingstoke Industrial Development Guidance

Basingstoke Places to Live

Basingstoke Shopfronts and Advertisements

Bath Streetscape Manual

Belfast Becoming a Better Place

Bexleyheath West End Urban Framework

Birmingham, Places for Living: Residential Design Guide

Birmingham, Places for All: City Design Guide

Birmingham, High Places: New Guidelines for the Design and Location of Tall Buildings

Birmingham Bournville Design Guide

Brighton Centre: Area Planning and Urban Design Framework

Brighton: External Paint Finishes and Colours

Brighton: Roof Alterations and Extentions

CaerphillySupplementary Planning Guidance - Building Better Places to Live: Housing Development in Urban Areas

Camden: Streetscape Design Manual

Cheltenham Shopfront Design

Chilterns Design Guide

Christchurch Shopfronts and Advertisement Design Guide

The Cotswold Design Code

The Countryside Agency, Town Design Statements

Countryside Agency Guidance

Coventry

Derby City Design Papers 01

Dundee Urban Design Guide

East Meon

East Meon Village Design Statement. Article in South Talk, Issue No. 59, Dec. 1999, pp 16-17

Edinburgh Design Parameters: Alignment

Edinburgh: Strategic Aspirations

Edinburgh Tram Design Manual

Edinburgh Standards for Urban Design

Essex Urban Design Guidance

Essex Design Guide for Residential and Mixed Use Areas

Fife Design Guide

Gloucester Designing Safer Places

Gloucester Residential Design Guide - Extending Your Home

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Streetscape Guide

Kent A Guide to Sustainable Development

Kent Creating Environmental Excellence

LEEDS - CITY CENTRE URBAN DESIGN STRATEGY

Leeds - City Centre Urban Design Strategy

Leeds - Neighbourhoods for Living. A guide for residential design

Leeds - Vision for Leeds

Leicester City Council : Supplementary Planning Guidance

Liverpool City Centre: Public Realm Implementation Framework

Liverpool Urban Design Guide

London - Best Practice Guidance: Guide to preparing Open Space Strategies

London - Accessible London: Achieving an Inclusive Environment

London - Housing: the London plan supplementary guidance

London - Living roofs, statement and casestudies

London - Sustainable design and construction: draft supplementary planning guidance

City of London - City Street Scene Manual

City of London - Shopfront design review

Corporation of London - Designing an Accessible City

London - Barnet - Designing to reduce crime

London - Barnet - Guidance on changes to the Development Control System

London - Barnet - Planning Design Guidance

London - Barnet - Design Guide for Sustainable Design and Construction

London - Bexley - Guidance on major planning applications

London - Brent Design Guidance

London - Camden - Design guide to enhance and protect the Built Environment

London - Ealing - Supplementary Planning Guidance

London - Enfield - The purpose of this guidance is to set guidelines to promote a sustainable and carbon free development

London - Hackney - Design guide to consider the urban design character of the proposed conservation areas

London - Hammersmith and Fulham - Design Guidelines for 54-108 Uxbridge Road Sheperds Bush Green

London - Haringey - Supplementary Design Guidance (SPG) Urban Design

London - Havering - Design Guidance for Sustainable Design Guidance adn Construction

London - Hounslow - Sustainable Construction Guide

London - Islington - the Islington Streetbook

London - Kensington and Chelsea - Elderly persons' accommodation

London - Kensington and Chelsea - Housing standards

London - Kensington and Chelsea - Streetscape Guide

London - Kensington and Chelsea - Transportation standards

London - Lewisham - Residential design standards

London - Merton Design Guidance - Design Guidance for Conservation Areas

London - Newham - Supplementary Planning Guidance

London - Redbridge - Unity Square - Urban Design Guidelines

London - Richmond upon Thames - Design guidelines

London - Richmond upon Thames - Public Space Design Guide

London - Southwark - Design Access Statements Supplementary Planning

London - Sutton - Urban Design Supplementary Planning Document

London - Tower Hamlets Street Design Guide

London - Waltham Forest - Supplementary Planning Guidance

London - Wandsworth - Design guidelines for personal safety and security

London - Wandsworth - Design guidelines for the conversion of shops to residential use

London - Wandsworth - Guidance on local views

London - Westminster - Public art in Westminster

London - Westminster - Statues, scupltures and monuments

Mid Bedfordshire - Draft Design Guide for Residential Areas in Mid Bedfordshire

Newcastle: Extending Your Home-A Design Guide

New Forest District Council : Design for Community Safety

Northampton - Upton Executive Summary

Nottingham Design Guide - Community Safety in Residential Areas

Nottingham Design Guide - Extending your home

Nottingham Design Guide - Industrial Commercial and Retail Development

Nottingham Design Guide - Shopfronts

Nottingham City Centre - Streetscape Design Manual

Peterborough Residential Design Guide

Poole: Streetscapes Design Strategy Guidance Manual

Plymouth Planning and Design Briefs

Rolleston on Dove

On acquiring a taste for design. Article in Local Council Review, Volume 51, No. 6, Jan. 2000, pp 25

Rotherham, South Yorkshire: Better Places to Live in South Yorkshire: A Guide to Residential Development

Rotherham, South Yorkshire: Better Places to Work in South Yorkshire: A Best Practice Guide for Office & Industrial Development

Stafford: Virtual Stafford

Stafford: Town Centre Vision Urban Design Framework

Stirling: Durieshill New Village Design Guide

Stirling: West Sauchenford New Village Design Guide

Stoke on Trent: Design Strategy for the Built Environment

Stratford-on-Avon: Character and Design

Stratford-on-Avon: Design Guide Review

Sunderland: Supplementary Planning Guidance 3-Design

Surrey design

Surrey: Design Guide Review

Wales: A Model Design Guide

Warrington Design Statements: Supplementary Planning Guidance

Warrington Landscape Design Statement

Winchester: Local Area Design Statement Chilbolton Avenue Draft

Village Design Statements

An introduction to village design statements(VDS) giving their definition, what they are used for, how you would go about doing one and how they fit in with current UK planning legislation. This paper was published in 2001 as the Planning Green paper was being discussed. Local Development Frameworks are now part of Planning Policy Statement 12.

Village Design Statements by Phil Turner

Good practice guides, handbooks and Manuals

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Overseas guidance

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New Zealand design guidance

Elected city mayors will have their own bespoke powers tailored to local needs, says Clark

January 18, 2012 - Elected city mayors will have their own bespoke powers tailored to local needs, Minister for Cities Greg Clark has announced. Rather than seeking to impose a 'one size fits all' approach, the Government will take advantage of the new power in the Localism Act to devolve power to mayors through negotiating a bespoke city deal with each city. more >

Big Society will be 'defeated by inertia' and the 'silo mentality of Whitehall' say MPs: dedicated minister needed for progress

December 19, 2011 - Prime Minister David Cameron's Big Society policy is doomed to failure unless a dedicated minister is appointed to help end confusion and get smaller charities involved, MPs have warned. more >

Joined up design: strategic guidance across local authority borders and multiple town centres in North Staffordshire

Localism means starting from the place, rather than from administrative boundaries. The new joint Urban Design Guidance for Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council shows how a strategic urban design approach and cross-boundary working help realise the potential for local distinctiveness. By Jane Dann and Katje Stille

Localism Bill published: Community Right to Build will roll out across the UK

December 14, 2010 - The Decentralisation and Localism Bill has been published in the House of Commons, part of a wider agenda that, taken as a whole, will mean radical changes in local government. more >

Set up of Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) given go ahead

November 13, 2010 - Manchester’s march to creating a city region is moving forward following an announcement that Whitehall has agreed to the creation of a new Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Details of the scheme are available online... more >

National Planning Framework, Community Right to Build, reformed CIL schemes to be in place by April 2011: TIF by July 2010

November 8, 2010 - The DCLG Business Plan has been published as part of a coordinated launch of departmental business plans in an online transparency database, setting out in detail the public-sector reforms the Coalition Government is undertaking. ... more >

DCLG will 'alter significantly under the government’s localism agenda': more enabling and less intervening, says Sir Bob

October 25, 2010 - The Department for Communities and Local Government is to cut its director general posts from six to three, as it absorbs a 33% cut in its administration budget over four years. Two of the new director general roles will cover the policy areas of localism and neighbourhoods, while the third will lead finance and corporate services. ... more >

Common set of metrics helps to evaluate the sustainability performance of buildings in practice

October 25, 2010 - The Green Property Alliance (GPA) has identified the need for greater consistency and clarity in the way in which the sustainability performance of buildings and wider property portfolios is measured and reported upon. UK-GBC is a member of the Green Property Alliance. The full report, Establishing the Ground Rules for Property, is available online... more >

Three London councils anounce plans for service sharing, including planning and regeneration

October 22, 2010 - Radical proposals to look at sharing ‘every major service’ have been announced by three of Britain’s local councils. Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster City Council and Kensington & Chelsea believe that merging services is the only way to try and avoid cuts to frontline services following the toughest public spending squeeze on local government in living-memory. more >
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