Consultant Tibbalds and the Design Council are working up a visual design guide for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government that will form part of the department’s pending Design Planning Practice Guidance later this year.

The appointment of the combined team followed an MHCLG procurement exercise earlier this year. Tibbalds said the result would be “an easy-to-use tool” to help local planning authorities, developers, built environment professionals and other agencies “ensure quality is embedded in policies, guidance and projects”.

The Design Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) will support the government’s core National Planning Policy Framework.

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