Public sector clients

Public sector clients include local authorities, publically-funded agencies, healthcare trusts and schools.

We provide best practice guidance, publications and toolkits to support public sector clients. We help to review proposals, give expert feedback and recommend places to visit and people to talk to.

Guides for public sector clients

Creating excellent buildings

Read our guide to commissioning a building project, covering the four main stages of preparation, design, construction and use.

Creating successful masterplans

Discover how to produce better masterplans that lead to the physical, social and economic revival of places.

Creating excellent secondary schools

Transform your schools by following our step-by-step journey through the design and building process, from vision to completion.

More resources for public sector clients

Sustainable Cities

Cut through the complexities of climate change with clear priorities for action and see which places are getting it right.

Open space strategies: what local authority decision makers need to know

Explaining what an open space strategy is and the tangible benefits of producing one.

Planning for places: delivering good design through core strategies

Helping local authorities take a spatial approach to writing their core strategy as part of a local development framework.

Design review: principles and practice

Design review is a tried and tested method of promoting good design and a cost-effective way of improving quality.

Successful school design

Help for local authority clients whose Building Schools for the Future projects are being reviewed by CABE.

Future health: sustainable places for health and well-being

Explaining how good design makes healthy places by linking health-promoting design with thinking about health and well-being.

Making competitions work

Advice from experienced professionals on how to get the best from running a design competition.

Spaceshaper

Use our free and practical community engagement toolkit to help measure the quality of your public spaces.

Useful links for public sector clients

Communities and Local Government

Setting housing, regeneration and planning policy.

Partnerships for Schools

Delivering the Building Schools for the Future programme.

Building for Life

National standard for well-designed homes and neighbourhoods.

GreenSpace

Professional institute dedicated to parks and green spaces.