Design guidance – Government Architect NSW
Providing guides, manuals and advisory notes to help state agencies and councils achieve good design outcomes for built environment.
Greener Places
Greener Places is a design framework that captures our collective aspiration and expectations in planning, designing and delivering green infrastructure.
Better Placed
An integrated design policy for the built environment to capture our collective aspiration and expectations for the places where we work, live and play.
Draft Greener Places Design Guide
The Greener Places Design Guide covers how to design, plan and implement green infrastructure in urban areas throughout NSW.
Design Guide for Schools
The Design Guide for Schools helps school communities and project teams achieve good design outcomes for schools and school environments.
Urban Design for Regional NSW – Government Architect NSW
The Urban Design Guide for Regional NSW recognises and celebrates the diversity of urban environments, natural landscapes, climates, and communities.
Design Guide for Heritage
The Design Guide for Heritage is a resource to help ensure we have good design in heritage places. This is a shared responsibility with many shared benefits.
Implementing and evaluating good design
Methods to guide design processes, evaluate design proposals throughout the life of projects and help achieve good design outcomes.
Design Review
Design excellence is a term that exists in statutory planning documents and describes a variety of requirements intended to lift design quality.
NSW State Design Review Panel
The State Design Review Panel (SDRP) delivers independent, consistent design quality advice on projects that have or will undergo assessment by the state.
