IHBC welcomes RICS’ #IHBCShrewsbury2025 School ‘Friend’ benefit: RICS’ rates for members at Global Building Conservation Conference, ‘Sharing heritage skills…’, 25/09, online, 7hrs CPD

The IHBC is delighted to announce that, thanks not least to the efforts of our West Midlands Branch team and School Friend lead, RICS & IHBC member Jessica Jones, IHBC members (all categories) can enjoy RICS rates at the online Global Building Conservation Conference, on 25/09, on how to ‘… Sharing heritage skill-sets with the next generation’.

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IHBC SE Branch Summer Social – Friday 25 July, Pevensey Castle: Places available – ‘Book, bring a picnic… & pop in & out as suits!’

The IHBC’s South East (SE) Branch summer gathering and site visit for 2025 is to Pevensey Castle, a scheduled monument in the care of English Heritage, with all welcome (including ‘kids and dogs’) and CPD certificates on request, but please book and bring a picnic for a full day of tours and talks.

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Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August:  IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments

As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.

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IHBC Research for Practice Digest No.6 now out: ‘Connecting conservation research and professional practice’

The IHBC’s sixth IHBC Research for Practice Digest has been issued to networks and subscribers features French public agency for ecological transition alongside our regular updated on Research and Guidance; Calls for Papers, Abstracts & Researchers and our ‘Broader Context’ of research & news – sign up HERE.

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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Protected sites and development from the LGA and PAS

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Part of the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) protected site strategy project is aimed at local planning authorities and explores available regulatory and policy drivers for development to deliver improvements to the condition of protected sites, reports the Local Government Association (LGA).

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’:  Major Fire at Edwardian Busbridge Hall, Godalming, after BBQ sparks blaze

A serious fire has broken out at Busbridge Hall in Godalming after a BBQ spread to a room of the property, prompting a large-scale emergency response involving fire crews from three counties, reports UK News in Pictures.

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Welsh Planning Reforms to ‘…. speed up infrastructure decisions and create jobs..’, to make ‘… Wales the fastest country in the UK for determining planning applications’

Reforms aimed at making Wales the fastest country in the UK for determining planning applications, creating new jobs and driving economic growth have been unveiled.

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HES: National campaign, ‘Historic Places, Breathing Spaces’, calls on all to ‘connect with heritage to boost.. wellbeing…’

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Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is calling for people across the country to connect with heritage to boost their wellbeing as a part of a national campaign, Historic Places, Breathing Spaces following a recent survey.

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England’s Dormant Assets Scheme: Forgotten assets to help families and young people thrive

The England’s first ever Dormant Assets Scheme Strategy unlocks £440 million funding.

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MPs say ‘Warm homes retrofit failures pushing UK clean, secure energy targets further off track’

A new report sets out practical measures needed to provide essential certainty and confidence for households and supply chains.

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Scotland’s urgent Church Challenge helped by National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant to Scotland’s Churches Trust & Soc Ant Scot

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The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Soc Ant Scot) and Scotland’s Churches Trust have announced a £229,015 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help ensure a sustainable future for Scotland’s churches and their contents.

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CMS Select Committee update on protecting built heritage, hear calls for end to ‘boom and bust’ heritage funding

MPs in the course of evidence given to the Culture Media and Sport (CMS) Select Committee on protecting built heritage were told that time-limited grants and skills gaps in heritage crafts and trades are among challenges facing the sector, reports the Arts Professional.

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Looking back at IHBC’s Context 183 (Part 2): IHBC’s members’ journal with Alexandra Fairclough’s ‘Law and Policy update’, UK-wide, plus Planning Appeals (with a shark)

Our Spring issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, ContextNo. 183 includes a ‘Law and Policy update’ by Alexandra Fairclough, as she looks across the UK at ‘Planning for change (and a shark)…’

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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost update to RICHeS Survey: For Heritage Science community and networks, input sought to 1 August

The Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) programme – the UK’s strategy to unlock access to heritage science facilities – seeks wide-ranging input to a new short survey (15 mins) to shape the future programme.

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LAST CHANCE TO APPLY: IHBC seeks ‘Branch Consultants’ with strong interpersonal, IT & comms skills for flexible part-time (typically 4 hours/week) regional support: Help boost locally-led conservation and volunteers, @£25/hour + expenses, closes 18 July

If you want to help the IHBC’s UK-wide built and historic environment conservation practice Branch network, have strong IT, comms & interpersonal skills, and seek flexible home-working with huge potential for engagement, travel and supporting interdisciplinary conservation, please let us know as advised below, before 18 July.

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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: DB on ‘Architects, architecture, buildings, construction and inspiration in film’

Designing Buildings (DB) features a timely piece on ‘Architects, architecture, buildings, construction and inspiration in film’.

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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Arch Daily’s ‘Tribute to Léon Krier’

IHBC’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 Arch Daily’s ‘Tribute to Léon Krier’.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Future of Southend’s Kursaal discussed at Parliament meeting

The future of a landmark seafront building in Southend, the Kursaal, has been discussed at a meeting in Parliament, reports The Echo.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Built heritage trusts in Glasgow receive new funding from council

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Total funding of £290,000 for the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) and the Glasgow City Heritage Trust (GCHT) for the next year has been approved by Glasgow City Council.

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CoE: Major refurbishment of Lambeth Palace completed

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The three-year project refurbishing Lambeth Palace, launched by the Church Commissioners in summer 2022, is the first refurbishment of the Grade I listed heritage building in more than 70 years, reports the Church of England (CoE).

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Kicking restoration of Parliament down the road risks disaster, authorities told

A Labour former cabinet minister highlighted ‘a real danger of a Notre Dame-type inferno or something worse’ unless action is taken.

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University of Cambridge on ‘The Business Case for Integrated Retrofit: How banks, insurers, and the government can support healthy, efficient, and resilient homes’

A joint research between Banking Environment Initiative and ClimateWise examines the socioeconomic and resilience benefits of building retrofit, and proposes business case for banks, insurance companies, and the government.

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CIOB responds to committee report criticising UK retrofit schemes

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The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has responded to a report of the UK’s Energy Security and Net Zero Committee which says poorly designed retrofit schemes, a ‘skills crisis’ and costly assurance failures have significantly set back efforts to decarbonise home heating and bring down energy bills.

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Investing in community regeneration in Scotland – Projects to unlock economic growth and tackle poverty

Projects across Scotland will benefit from Scottish Government investment to help regenerate communities and drive economic growth.

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RIBA Library and Collections services update June 2025

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A RIBA Library and Collections services update, June 2025 says its ‘library is currently closed for refurbishment works as part of our House of Architecture programme’.

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