Building for Life 12 has been relaunched as Building for a Healthy Life (BHL) – updating BFL12, this joint initiative with the NHS, Homes England and the Home Builders Federation is a Design Code to improve the design of new and growing neighbourhoods. 

Design:Midlands, as part of the Design Network, provides BHL training, assessment and facilitation. The Design Review Panel has a track record of supporting schemes to achieve better designed, healthy and sustainable places.

Design: Midlands also advocates, Streets for a Healthy Life, a companion document to BHL prepared by Homes England. 

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