Part 13: General Schedule 7: Plan making Section 15F: Design code for whole area Effect
Subsection (1) of section 15F has the effect of introducing a duty on local planning authorities to ensure that design requirements, set out in the form of a design code, are prepared at the spatial scale of their authority area.
	Subsection (2) clarifies that, for the duty in subsection (1), local planning authorities are not required to include design requirements for every type of development for every part of their area or for every aspect of design.
	Section 15F should be read in conjunction with sections 15C, 15CC, 15D, 15DB, 15HB and 15B(2)(e).
	Section 15C(4)(c) enables local planning authorities to include design codes (requirements) as part of their local plan.
	Section 15CC enables local planning authorities to prepare and adopt local design codes as a supplementary plan, meaning they will become part of the development plan and will be afforded the same weight as a local plan.
	Design codes prepared as a supplementary plan will be subject to at least one round of consultation (as per section 15CC(12)(b)), and an independent examination (section 15DB).