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By Joey Gardiner2021-05-24T05:01:00+01:00 Test programme is part of government’s push to force developers to build beautifully Major city authorities including Leeds, Newcastle and Southwark are among 14 councils selected to take part in a trial of local design codes. The government said it will give each authority £50,000 to take part in the six-month pilot to develop local design codes based on the placemaking principles contained in the government’s draft National Model Design Code, published in January. The £7m trials are part of a push by the government to implement the recommend...

The future of design guides and codes The latest proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) take some initial steps in the direction of the wider proposed reforms to the planning system. Notable here is the focus on good design quality and placemaking, with local planning authorities being required to prepare ‘design guides or codes’ consistent with the National Design Guide and the recently published draft National Model Design Code (NMDC) and Guidance Notes for Design Codes (GNDC). These guides and codes will need to be tailore...

Those standards held up? do you think it will be implemented here or other places around the world? >> it's already being implemented here. what we look at, we look at better understanding what happened near the collapsed structure. so when we have structures that do collapse we don't have an opportunity to study those on what they are called an earthquake shape table, a large platform that moves back and forth. so in going over there, we can take a look at basically what amounts to tense if not hundreds of buildings that may have collapsed and gather a significant amount of data to learn more...