We are working with DLUHC and the Design Code Pathfinder authorities to deliver series of online workshop on Design Codes specifically for Development Management officers, looking specifically how Development Management officers can best be involved in supporting and steering the content, use and monitoring of Design Codes.
As part of their Design Code Pathfinder Programme, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have been working with 25 pathfinder authorities to support them with preparing their own local design codes, in line with the National Model Design Code. As pathfinders continue to make progress with finalising and adopting their codes, the programme is turning its attention to how design codes are working in practice and the benefits they can provide. This includes engaging with pathfinders to understand and explore their experiences with implementing and monitoring their codes.
Through this work, the programme is looking at the role of Development Management officers in the design coding process and how they can best be involved in supporting and steering the direction of code production and implementation. To share these insights, PAS will be working with DLUHC and the pathfinders to host a series of events through 2024 specifically aimed at Development Management officers, looking at how pathfinder authorities have engaged with DM teams at different stages of design code preparation and discussing how codes can be integrated into local authority decision-making processes.
Future workshops in this series will discuss the production of codes, the application of codes in the decision-making process and the monitoring and long-term impacts of design codes (later in the year). As sessions are delivered in this series of workshops we will make the recordings and material available to be accessed here.
Future dates will be announced via the PAS Bulletin, and published here, along with recordings and materials from the sessions.