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The IHBC has welcomed 2026’s Heritage Day, themed on #HeritageConnects, with ‘resources and reflections’ now out.
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image: Claudia Kenyatta (left) and Emma Squire (right). © Historic England
The IHBC has welcomed 2026’s Heritage Day, themed on #HeritageConnects, with ‘resources and reflections’ now out.
Continue readingNew report by Pro Age in collaboration with Age Irrelevance calls for industry veterans to spend a few years in mentoring, training and education before retirement.
Continue readingIHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features UKAU on ‘Google hired by government to develop AI planning decisions tool’.
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Continue readingCabinet Members have approved proposals for the Council to acquire residential properties at Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl that face a severe flood risk, reports Rhondda Cynon Taf Council.
Continue readingimage for illustration: High Street tenements, Glasgow by Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is calling on all political parties in Scotland to commit to saving the nation’s built heritage as it says current Scottish and UK policies actively encourage the neglect and demolition of historic buildings, and that the public agrees this must change.
Continue readingA University of Derby and the National Trust (NT) publication ‘Heritage Connection: Scoping and Finding the Field’ is reported on in the author’s blog: Finding Nature.
Continue readingThe Government has launched a call for submissions to the UK’s first-ever national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – living heritage – on foot of the UK’s ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, open to 27 March 2026.
Continue readingThe Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has announced a series of new appointments to its board and changes to how it is governed.
Continue readingThe Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has released its Industry Picture 2026, with evidence on the challenges and opportunities underpinning the construction skills gap, to help understand the significant trends and challenges for construction.
Continue readingimage for illustration: St Mary’s Church at Whitekirk by Jennifer Petrie, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has published the latest edition of the Places of Worship (POWF) Newsletter.
Continue readingResearch & policy body Respublica has issued a report offering ‘A Modest Proposal for the Restoration of Neighbourhoods’.
Continue readingA new planning appeals procedural guide for appeals outlines the new process for making an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate as a result of The Town and Country Planning (Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026.
Continue readingCyArk, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing and preserving the world’s culture, and its partners, have launched a new 3D exhibition ‘Our Land, Our Story’ offering virtual access to artifacts currently inaccessible due to the ongoing war.
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IHBC’s new issue of its members’ journal Context is out – No. 186 – takes a heftier view of heritage opportunities, from Scotland’s ‘uplifting’ heritage and reusing big industrial structures to its conservation areas, railway infrastructure, and much more.
Continue readingManaging building safety risks across an existing residential portfolio is inherently complex.
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Know any emerging practitioners who’ve shown accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, AND/OR Retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities: Nominate them NOW for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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The IHBC has recently secured permission to seek a Charter while delivery of our 5 Parliamentary Commitments is under way and Branch Consultants are in place, and much more too, so we’re now calling for volunteers to help, and grow your skills with us!
Continue readingIHBC members should have received their invitation from our President, Rebecca Thompson, to join in our new-style and ‘members-only’ online Council from 4.30pm on 8 April, when, as well as Charters & much more, we start to ‘investigate conservation roles and services in local government’ – part of our 3rd Parliamentary Commitment.
Continue readingGovernment guidance has been issued on use of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of any appeal, application or examination being dealt with by the Planning Inspectorate.
Continue readingThe IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members our exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s tender taster for NewsBlog readers this week a call from a Northern Ireland (I) authority for a qualified team for design and project services, to 19/03/2026.
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Continue readingimage for illustration: George’s Dock building, Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Liverpool’s world-famous waterfront is set to benefit from a £40m investment to cut carbon emissions at 35 public buildings across the City reports Liverpool City Region.
Continue readingUnlawful developments are being left permanently in place across England because under-resourced councils are running out of time to act, a new report from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman reveals.
Continue readingThe Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has responded to the Architects Registration Board’s (ARB) decision to keep the wording of its Accreditation Rule 4.2: Degree awarding powers, which it changed from ‘qualification awarding powers’ to ‘degree awarding powers’.
Continue readingA new £400,000 pilot project has been launched to support pioneering projects that help organisations owning Scotland’s cultural and creative buildings respond to climate change.
Continue readingimage for illustration: Doonbeg 14th hole b Terrance Siemon, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Clare County Council has given the green light for a new ballroom at the US President Donald Trump-owned Trump Doonbeg golf resort in west Clare, with requirements including ‘a management plan for the protected snail’.
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