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Job: Design Officer
Bath and North East Somerset Council
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Cover of Draft Hartlepool Residential Design Code & Guidance SPD

Draft Hartlepool Residential Design Code & Guidance SPD
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Job: Landscape and Urban Design Officer
Derbyshire County Council
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My hopes and fears for Manual for Streets 3 The DfT has circulated a draft of the eagerly awaited Manual for Streets update. It must not become just another well-meaning advisory document, writes Christopher Martin, managing director at Urban M...

My hopes and fears for Manual for Streets 3
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Cover of Draft Bexley Design Guide SPD Part 2

Draft Bexley Design Guide SPD Part 2
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Job: Urban Design Officer
North Somerset Council
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How the new NPPF puts design back at the heart of planning What you need to know about the draft NPPF and Planning Practice Guidance before the government consultation ends on 10 March by Hilary Satchwell

How the new NPPF puts design back at the heart of planning
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THE BIG READ: Urban design in Tullamore - A new broom and an old master In the 1950s the visionary architect and town planner Frank Gibney was commissioned to provide a plan for Tullamore. His brief was to identify sites and layouts for local authority housing schemes and...

Urban design in Tullamore - A new broom and an old master
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Heritage & Design Officer - (Fixed-Term) - GLA14892 | Glasgow | myjobscotland View details and apply for this urban planning role in with Glasgow on myjobscotland

Job: Heritage & Design Officer
Glasgow City Council
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Designing Coventry Coventry City Council is preparing a Design Code to help guide how our neighbourhoods, streets and public spaces should look and feel in the future. All councils have to make sure that planners follow...

Coventry Design Code: Initial Questionnaire
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Remembering Kelvin Campbell: Probably the most influential urban designer of his generation Kelvin Campbell passed away over Christmas. David Rudlin pays tribute to a fascinating contrarian who was always inspirational if also slightly intimidating

Remembering Kelvin Campbell
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At last an AI tool I can get behind

“Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.”

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I wrote about design in the regions...with some uncomfortable truths.

Job: Assistant Urban Design Intern
Essex County Council
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Job: Assistant Urban Design Consultant
Essex County Council
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Job: Senior Urban Design Consultant
Essex County Council
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East Herts Council - Conservation and Urban Design Officer (Career-graded role from Assistant at Grade 6 to Senior at Grade 8)

Job: Conservation and Urban Design Officer
East Herts Council
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Coverage of our Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance Temple Gardens, North Somerset ©Historic England Yesterday we announced our new design guidance, giving councils and developers a clear rulebook to deliver better‑designed, safer and healthier neighbo...

Press Coverage of Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance
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front cover of the consultation draft Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance - green toned cover with and image of a terraced street and the MHCLG logo

The new Design and Placemaking PPG is out - great to see, and prompting a wave of nostalgia for the pandemic labour of love that was working on the National Model Design Code 🥲

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Job: Urban Design Officer
Winchester City Council
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Job: Urban Designer
South Dublin County Council
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Design policy: a long and winding road to clarity For many years this blog has tracked the twists and turns of national policy on design quality. The recurring theme has been frustration over the persistent inability on the part of Government to s…

Prof. Matthew Carmona: Design policy: a long and winding road to clarity
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Cover of 'By Design: Urban Design in the Planning System Towards Better Practice'

RIP Kelvin Campbell

Job: Senior Landscape and Urban Design Officer
Monmouthshire County Council
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National Planning Policy Framework: proposed reforms and other changes to the planning system We are seeking views on a revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and other changes to the planning system.

P.80: 'we intend to publish updated Design & Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance in the new year. This will consolidate four previous guidance documents (National Design Guide, Design Process and Tools Planning Practice Guidance, National Model Design Code Parts 1 & 2)
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Urban Design Officer (Career Grade) Maternity Cover - Sevenoaks TN13 1HG, UK | Jobs Go Public Career_Grade_Urban_Design_Officer_JDSept25 Please apply online (see below).

Job: Urban Design Officer (Maternity Cover)
Sevenoaks District Council
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114. Design in planning, planning to design Design in planning I have written elsewhere about how places are shaped (for good or ill) by multiple overlapping processes through time.  This involves inputs of different acto…

Prof Matthew Carmona: Design in planning, planning to design
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Screenshot of new gov.uk connectivity tool- heat map of transport connectivity across various modes

Yes 😍

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Sandwell Design Code: Initial Consultation
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Draft South Kesteven Design Code
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