The government’s latest piece of planning guidance, The National Model Design Code, is an ill-written collection of platitudes masquerading as design wisdom, says Paul Finch There is an ever-present ...

Last summer the Government introduced a National Model Design Code (NMDC). Inspired by the work of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, its purpose was to address concerns over a ...

Government architect Sarah Allan has said at an AJ100 event that new design codes now being drawn up will not necessarily hamper the profession Allan, who joined the government’s Levelling Up ...

Last week Berkeley Homes went to war with Michael Gove over the design quality of a scheme in Kent, but locally-adapted design codes mandated in proposed new legislation are meant to help avoid such ...