GPS Director, Ruth Reed, has been quoted in Planning Magazine about how LPA’s will need resources to produce Design Codes.

How planners should approach the new requirement to produce design codes, with advice from @DesignForHomes, @PeterStuddert, @BolgarB, @ruthreed01, @mskiely: https://t.co/DcPLaN50Pj pic.twitter.com/TvPk7Q3T1u

— Planning Magazine (@PlanningMag) February 19, 2021

Planning Magazine:
The challenges for councils raised by the proposed strengthening of national policy design requirements by Ben Kochan

Ruth Reed, former Royal Institute of British Architects president and director of consultancy Green Planning Studio, said authorities “will probably be expected to have their design codes in place within three years” but many lack the in-house resources to produce them, especially within that timescale. “They may be tempted to commission consultants to prepare them,” she suggested.