A guide for design teams - Maximising social value in design

In real estate and the built environment, leading councils, developers and investors alike are looking at how they can do more for the local communities where they operate. Therefore, design and project teams are hugely important to ensure social value is embedded in a project from the outset.

As the ‘social value movement’ spreads across the built environment sector, the Social Value in Design Taskforce (the Taskforce) was set up to address the challenges that design teams face when looking to bring social value into a project. The Taskforce comprises many organisations from across the sector including designers, architects, transport planners, engineers, sustainability consultants and other built environment professionals.

We have developed this guidance to support design teams to embed Social Value in their work.

This guide covers the following:

• An introduction to social value
• How does real estate create social value?
• Measuring social value
• Designing for social value – the how and the what
• The how: social plan of work
• The what: social value in design checklist
• Social value action plans

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