Office for Place

The Office for Place is a new arms-length body established by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. We will help shift how the planning system is used, as a shield against the worst to a champion of the best. We will catalyse a fundamental change within and across all levels of government, communities and the development, planning and design industries, to support the creation and stewardship of popular, healthy, beautiful and sustainable places. We will help neighbourhoods, communities and public servants working on their behalf, to ask for and deliver new places, and manage existing places, to be popular, healthy, beautiful and sustainable. We will support public sector planners and the British design and development industries to be the best place makers in the world aided by improving UK and international data on happiness, health, popularity and sustainability. You can find out more about us via our website