Return on investment While the costs incurred in preparing a code can be a concern for local authorities, the Pathfinder programme has highlighted that significant returns can be achieved from the coding process. Once adopted, codes can provide wider benefits by promoting inward investment, delivering on corporate objectives and driving development and regeneration. This is because a design code has the potential
to make the planning process more efficient by speeding up assessments, improving applications, minimising appeals, and helping junior development management colleagues to develop their competence sooner. A design code can also attract inward investment by driving development and regeneration, which in turn will help the local authority to deliver its wider corporate objectives for social and environmental good.
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From planning to execution: Making resource efficiencies for successful codes