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- IHBC’s newest ‘Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’: National Office updates for Branch Officers 24/10/2025
- Need a MATE? More free online Accreditation guidance and update sessions offered to guide IHBC applicants 24/10/2025
- 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 24/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ signpost: Historic England & Defra – ‘… helping to preserve rural heritage for the future’ 24/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £960K+ of weekly works: Nationally significant charity seeks design services for ‘transformational heritage project’, to 10/11 24/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (regal) doorstep’: How the King’s vision is shaping next wave of new towns 24/10/2025
- 7 New Sites Listed by DCMS to Celebrate 200 Years of the Railway 24/10/2025
- BEFS 2026 Manifesto: Building Foundations for a Better Scotland 24/10/2025
- RIBA puts high-quality design on Parliament’s agenda 24/10/2025
- Pathway to Planning – Cohort 4 open to 6/01: … fast track career in the built environment as LG planner or surveyor, from £25K pa 24/10/2025
- Expert Taskforce recommends locations for new towns 24/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Major new study to reveal the value of the UK’s UNESCO sites 24/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Law & Policy Update – ‘A village is not a historic town’ 21/10/2025
- IHBC Research Signpost: Impacts of changes to local authority funding on small to medium heritage organisations 21/10/2025
- 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 21/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 21/10/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: LocalGov on ‘Planning recruitment’ threats as 33 bodies (inc. IHBC) call for funds 21/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Welsh council to appeal High Court quashing of Article 4s over ‘misleading’ officers’ report 21/10/2025
- TCPA seeks support in Campaign for Healthy Homes: Joining health and PD rights advocacy in Planning Bill changes 21/10/2025
- Licensing builders must happen following ECO debacle, says FMB 21/10/2025
- Honouring the legacy of the Sycamore Gap tree: a new creative commission 21/10/2025
- Built Environment Committee responds to New Towns Taskforce Report 21/10/2025
- £10Mn+ Water company fines fund local restoration projects 21/10/2025
- Elle Cass next Chair Royal Town Planning Institute Board 21/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: UNESCO launches the first global Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at MONDIACULT 2025 21/10/2025
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Calor puts up £85,000 for rural community projects: Closing 9 April
To celebrate its 85th birthday, gas company Calor has increased the value of its Rural Communities Fund to £85,000, which it will divide into 22 prizes, closing 9 April. image: for illustration purposes only – P Badcock
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RTPI survey on ‘Measuring Planning Outcomes Research’
The RTPI are undertaking research on Measuring Planning Outcomes Research to consider how local authorities can measure the outcomes of planning in order to track and improve the impact of planning. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence … Continue reading
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Scottish Civic Trust sets social media challenge: What’s Oot Ma Windae?
Lovers of the built environment and folk self-isolating throughout Scotland, if spending a little more time indoors or are seeking an interesting way to pass the time why not look to the Scottish Civic Trust’s #WhatsOotMaWindae for some fun and … Continue reading
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FINAL CHANCE – #IHBCMarshAwards closes TONIGHT: Nominate ‘retired IHBC members’ and/or ‘successful learners’ for £500 cash awards and free IHBC Annual School places
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards close tonight so please take a few minutes to enter your retired colleagues and/or successful learners for their chance of £500 cash awards and a free place at the IHBC’s Annual School. IHBC President Mike Brown is … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Coronavirus-friendly CPD boost… out of Context: Saving new town heritage and beyond, with Google, DBW and IHBC too1
In the in the recent issue of Context, No 162, devoted to the heritage of New Towns Bob Colenutt and Sabine Coady Schaebitz make the case for saving new town heritage, arguing that protecting the extraordinary heritage of new towns … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Land girls hostel in Cheshire, – one of few surviving – listed to mark women’s war work
One of the last remaining Women’s Land Army (WLA) hostels in Cheshire has been given Grade II listed status for being ‘vitally important’ in recognising women’s wartime efforts feeding Britain, reports Cheshire Live.
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IHBC’s IMHO signpost: Using strategy to create a ‘Glocal’ consultation, from TCI
Perhaps one of the greatest challenges of consulting internationally is that of running a broad consultation which spans more than one country or region and is simultaneously accessible on a local level, so The Consultation Institute (TCI) asks if a … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: HE considering merit of Mond House becoming a listed building at Winnington Works
Northwich’s Mond House could be saved from demolition as assessments on whether it should be classed as a listed building begin at Historic England (HE), writes The Northwick Guardian.
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Design, Heritage and Biodiversity intertwine as new schemes in Brighton need ‘swift bricks’ for nesting birds to get planning
Planning rules passed by Brighton and Hove council which come into force next month and will require new developments to contain so-called ’swift bricks’ to encourage nesting birds.
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UK’s first ‘super’ National Nature Reserve on Purbeck Heaths
Landscape-scale conservation to help tackle climate change and benefit more than 2.5 million visitors as, recognising the increasing need for a bigger, better and more joined-up approach to nature conservation, seven leading partners have come together to help protect wildlife … Continue reading
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Government update to the Inquiries Review Action Plan
Government UK notes 16 out of 22 Rosewell recommendations implemented, as the Planning Inspectorate publishes its updated Action Plan. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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City Hall overrules Southwark Council to approve £500m Bermondsey Biscuit Factory Scheme
City Hall has overruled Southwark Council to approve a £500m development on Bermondsey’s Biscuit Factory despite concern over a ‘shortfall’ of social housing as the plans, initially thrown out by Southwark’s planning committee over a lack of affordable homes, will … Continue reading
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NT: Lost statues of the Nine Muses recreated at Stowe after nearly 100 years
After years of historical and archaeological detective work, nine lost statues of the ‘Muses’ – goddesses of the creative arts and poetry – have been recreated at the National Trust’s world-famous gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire.
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COVID-19 Coronavirus: Interim update from the IHBC, with a message from our Chair
The IHBC’s Chair David McDonald has offered the following interim statement on our plans and operations, in advance of determinations by our trustees who will meet (online) next Thursday to agree a forward strategy across our suite of current plans.
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LAST CHANCE – #IHBCMarshAwards closes on Tuesday 31st March: Nominate ‘retired IHBC members’ and/or ‘successful learners’ for £500 cash awards and free IHBC Annual School places
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards closing date has been extended to Tuesday March 31, so please take a few minutes to enter your retired colleagues and/or successful learners for their chance of £500 cash awards and a free place at the IHBC’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 1: Budget and COVID 19, via DBW
On 11 March 2020, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, presented his budget to parliament and, coming in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak, it offered a package of measures to support the economy, all reviewed below via Designing … Continue reading
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 2: CIC’s Coronavirus Digest review and survey (@27/03/20)
The Construction Industry Council’s (CIC’s) ‘CIC Coronavirus Digest – Issue 5’ surveys the latest government advice on the coronavirus (COVID-19) and updates from the construction industry, with selections from the Digest’s Issue 3 for further reference. image: for illustration purposes … Continue reading
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 3: ‘A guide to the coronavirus Job Retention Scheme’, from PBCToday
In PBCToday, Nigel Morris, tax director at MHA MacIntyre Hudson explains how employers can access the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) to continue paying 80% of the salary for employees. image: for illustration purposes only
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 4: Advise and updates collated from the heritage sector, including data and policy to care and cleaning
Some organisations with conservation links have been collating resources on COVID-19 impacts, some of which inevitably will be time sensitive, including Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS), Historic Environment Forum, The Heritage Alliance (THA), and Historic England, on cleaning surfaces.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick, from £165K+ costed opportunities: Scottish Council seeks team for CARS, closing 02/04, no value stated
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’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this week … Continue reading
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A Culture Strategy for Scotland issued
The Scottish Government has published ‘A Culture Strategy for Scotland’ which shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland.
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England’s Housing Minister: Speech to the Planning Inspectorate, on good and bad design, with a heritage handle
England’s Housing Minister Christopher Pincher made a speech at the Planning Inspectorate Annual Training Event, name-checking history, design, old buildings and more. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Welsh Government Consultation ‘Changes to listed building consent applications’ launched, closing 08/06
A Welsh Government consultation has been launched on ‘Changes to listed building consent applications: Applications for listed building consent by local authorities’, closing 8 June.
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CIC publishes new adjudication procedure: ‘affordable adjudication for low value disputes’
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has published a new procedure to make adjudication affordable for low value disputes.
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LAST CHANCE (NEARLY) – #IHBCMarshAwards extended to end March: Nominate ‘retired IHBC members’ and/or ‘successful learners’ for £500 cash awards and free IHBC Annual School places, closing 31 March
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards closing date has been extended to March 31, so please take a few minutes to enter your retired colleagues and/or successful learners for their chance of £500 cash awards and a free place at the IHBC’s Annual School.
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