Member

We will keep under review the provisions contained in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act on authority-wide design codes and national policy and guidance on design in relation to how the use of localised design codes and other design tools, including master plans and design guides, can be embedded as part of the plan-making process. We will use the feedback from the consultation to inform future decisions. In the meantime, local authorities should continue to consider, through their coding process and by engaging with communities, the scale and issues that their design code should cover, to most effectively support the vision for their place and planning decision-making. This may be an authority-wide code. The Bill also already allows for design matters to be addressed by SDSs where they are considered to be of strategic importance to the area.