The updated National Planning Policy Framework (July 2021) states that local planning authorities should prepare design guides or codes consistent with the National Design Guide and National Model Design Code, and which reflect local character and design preferences. Design codes are a set of illustrated design requirements that are visual and numerical where possible to provide specific, detailed parameters for the physical development of a site or area. Their geographic coverage, level of detail and degree of prescription should be tailored to the circumstances, scale of change in each place and should allow a suitable degree of variety. The code can be applied on several different scales such as city-wide, area types, development sites or on specific plots. Do you think design quality in Portsmouth would benefit from having a city-wide design guide or code?
Local Plan Q26c)
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