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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
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‘FREE Support now available to help archaeologists facing redundancy’
With over twelve years’ experience helping people who have lost their jobs to plan and manage their career transitions and having created the world’s first Level 3 university accredited course in ‘Personal Career Management’, Soldier On! is offering its outplacement … Continue reading
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New CITB NI student bursary award: Closing 18/09
CITB NI has launched a new £1,000 bursary award for students studying a third level Built Environment related qualification (Level 4 or above), closing 18/09.
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How to improve on-site health and safety measures
Health and safety are always at the forefront of the minds of responsible employers, but current times have perhaps made these issues even more prevalent, as this article explores, writes UK Construction Week. image: for illustration purposes only Open Government … Continue reading
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Simon Allford elected RIBA President, Gavin Traylor RSAW
Simon Allford will be the RIBA’s next President and Gavin Traylor the next RSAW President.
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SPAB photography competition 2020: closing 4 Sept
This summer SPAB’s launching a photography competition, and few technical limitations means that photos taken on a smartphone or a DSLR camera (minimum of 300dpi and a maximum file size of 10Mb) are welcome, while there’s no limit to the … Continue reading
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IHBC Marsh Awards 2020 now out – #IHBCMarshAwards: David Lovie, Paula Baron, Andy Barrow celebrated… IHBC, CRT and BCC
Judges in the fifth year of the IHBC Marsh Awards – for Successful Learning in Heritage Skills and Community Contribution (Retired Member) – are delighted to announce the 2020 IHBC Marsh Awards, including certificates and cash awards up to £500, … Continue reading
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IHBC Student Awards close 31 August: Last chance for £500 & free places at 2021 Brighton School – Simply submit coursework online!
The IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award celebrates relevant coursework from ANY UK taught course – history, planning, design, enhancement and more– so just submit your coursework online for a chance to receive up to a £500 cash prize and … Continue reading
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IHBC Chair asks: ‘Are you getting your CPD?’ as Vic Soc launches online events, from wallpapers (27/08) to pubs (9/09)
The Victorian Society (Vic Soc) is offering the chance to hear leading historians, authors, architects and curators speak on a wide range of topics in new online lectures, hosted on Crowdcast, with current topics ranging from wallpapers to pubs! …take … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £400K costed work: English BC seeks Town Centre masterplan, closing 14/09, valued £160-200K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Birmingham’s ‘second tallest building’ under judicial review as heritage concerns undervalued by authorities
The construction of Birmingham’s second-tallest skyscraper has been cast into doubt after a High Court judge granted permission for a judicial review into the project, reports Birmingham Live, as the High Court said that not enough weight had been given … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from Ireland: ‘Restore’?. ‘Repair’?, and who even came first?
Conservation ethics lies at the heart of the IHBC’s CPD, and we all must question how much we really know about the differences between ‘restoration’ and ‘repair’ and their histories, so the new story of Henry Cotton and James Graves … Continue reading
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England’s funding boost to help communities plan their neighbourhoods
Funding in England should help neighbourhood planning groups in urban and deprived areas develop local neighbourhood plans.
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Design in the public sector programme open, themed on climate change, closing 4 September
Delivered in partnership between the LGA and Design Council, the Design in Public Sector programme (DIPS) equips councils with design skills and methods to apply to their toughest local climate challenges and most ambitious aspiration or mission.
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RTPI: Plan the world we need – The contribution of planning to a sustainable, resilient and inclusive recovery
An new research paper – ‘Plan the world we need, the contribution of planning to a sustainable resilient and inclusive recovery’ – has published by the RTPI.
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NI Minister Ní Chuilín to reconvene Partnership Panel
Northern Ireland (NI) Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has announced that she is to reconvene the Partnership Panel – a body set up to strengthen relationships between the Executive and local government. image: Department for Communities, NI
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Wordsworth’s Alfoxton Park home bought by Buddhist charity
A former home of romantic poet William Wordsworth Alfoxton Park Hotel, in Holford Somerset, has been ‘saved’ after a Buddhist charity bought it for £1.4m
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IHBC highlights ‘Heritage Rescue’: Special opportunity for TV features on ‘rescues’
The IHBC has been contacted by a TV production company called Curve Media to highlight its search for feature ‘rescues’ for a new primetime series it is producing for the Discovery Channel, with the working title ‘Heritage Rescue’, to be … Continue reading
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Don’t forget IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Awards 2020 closing date extended to 31 August: £500 + free place at IHBC’s 2021 Brighton School – Just submit coursework online!
Following calls from IHBC Recognised Conservation Courses, the closing date for the IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award has been extended to 31 August 2020, so relevant coursework from history and theory to practice or enhancement, submitted on ANY … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Critics wade into Jenrick’s planning reforms
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: The five ‘eyesore’ buildings in Edinburgh that locals most want to see torn down
Recently, Edinburgh Live asked its Facebook followers to nominate ‘eyesore’ buildings that they would most like to see demolished in the capital, and hundreds of people replied, though as one of them hasn’t even been built yet, Edinburgh Live is … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from Ireland: The making of Dublin’s 14 Henrietta Street Museum
If you would you like an architectural conservation knowledge challenge, check out the history of housing and the changes over time in Dublin in the article by the City Council’s heritage officer, Charles Duncan, in issue 163 of Context, which … Continue reading
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HS2 to hide tunnel vent shafts with ‘country barns’ in Chilterns, but not London
The rail project’s treatment of an area to hide tunnel vent shafts with ‘country barns’ in the Chilterns contrasts with that of council estate in inner London. image: The Guardian – HS2
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New NI Historic Buildings Council appointed following open competition
Communities Minister for Northern Ireland (NI) Carál Ní Chuilín has announced the appointment of the Chair and eight new members to the Historic Buildings Council following open competition….
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AHRC’s digital ‘Museum of Boundless Creativity’ seeks nominations, closing 28/08
This September the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will open its first ever digital collection – the Museum of Boundless Creativity – which will be available to browse 24/7 – and it seeks new nominations for an object, idea … Continue reading
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London Design Festival Announces 2020 Program: 12-20 Sept
The London Design Festival has announced the program for its 18th edition to be held from 12-20 September 2020.
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