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The Government has announced £15 million of funding for The Architectural Heritage Fund’s (AHF) Transforming Places through Heritage Programme. image AHF website

Historic England’s successful Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) initiative has welcomed a £40M boost in the budget, to help work with Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) in the regeneration of historic high streets that are struggling with economic and social pressures. image … Continue reading →

The National Lottery funding body, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), and the National Trust have joined forces to find and back ambitious and sustainable solutions to protect and enhance public parks and green spaces, with Expressions of Interest closing at 12pm … Continue reading →

Wales’ Historic Environment Group (HEG) — the high-level body established in 2004 to benefit and promote the historic environment in Wales — seeks views on a new plan that explores how the historic environment sector in Wales could address the … Continue reading →

The Heritage Lottery Fund have awarded £3.8 million for a project led by Natural England (NE) to save bats and protect churches, while the ‘Bats in Churches Project Heritage Advisor’ post is already being advertised on the IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc’ … Continue reading →

Civic Voice – the national voice for the civic and conservation movement – announced that Swindon Railway Village Conservation Area has been voted as England’s ‘Favourite Conservation Area’, with runners up including Port Sunlight Conservation Area and Lichfield City Centre. … Continue reading →

A leading Edinburgh University scientist is being appointed as the Scottish Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser for Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture. © Paul Langcaster, UKRI BBSRC.

A UK-wide festival to be held in 2022 will showcase the creative and innovative strengths of the nation. image: Open Government Licence v3.0

The Scottish Civic Trust (SCT) ‘Sharing Stories’ project aims to challenge stereotypes and improve understanding of minority ethnic heritage across Europe, and is conducting a short online survey to collect information on levers / barriers / enablers to minority ethnic … Continue reading →

Statistics on designated green belt land in England by local authority for 2017 to 2018 have been published, indicating an incremental decrease of green belt each year.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has established the Building Safety Programme to cover high-rise residential buildings over 18 metres, including hotels, intended to help make sure that residents of high rise buildings are safe – and … Continue reading →

A funding campaign using the ‘KindLink’ network has been launched by the Folkestone Leas Lift Company CIC, with a target of £100,000 to support restoration of the Folkestone Leas Lift and to reopen the Victorian Grade II listed lift and … Continue reading →

The BBC has reported on how, in the grounds of a grammar school in Northern Ireland sits what locals has believed for years to be the remains of a 17th Century windmill, but has now been identifies as a genuine … Continue reading →

The Church has agreed to pay €22m to fund transport upgrades under a deal with Barcelona Council so that, more than a century after its first stone was laid, and 92 years after its famously ascetic architect was fatally struck … Continue reading →