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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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IHBC welcomes HE’s Carbon in the Built Historic Environment, from Heritage Counts
The IHBC has welcomed the theme and publication of Heritage Counts, led by Historic England (HE), which examines the environmental value of our built historic environment, focusing on carbon.
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Don’t forget: BOOKING NOW OPEN on IHBC’s 2020 Brighton School…. Low-cost ‘early-bird’ rates so you can make #IHBCBrighton2020 your CPD learning hub for 2020
Booking is now open for the 2020 IHBC Brighton School – including the Day School – from 18-20 June, on ‘OLD TOWNS : NEW FUTURES’ and sponsored by IHBC HESPR member Heritage Collective – which will explore some of the most urgent issues in our historic environment, with … Continue reading
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Thinking about IHBC’s 2020 Brighton School themes? From Experience, how shopping malls are integrating leisure facilities to address new demands
Shopping malls are officially defined as buildings that form a complex of shops where visitors walk from one unit to the other through interconnected walkways, with origins dating back to the post-WWII United States, and now changes in global trends … Continue reading
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IHBC’s CPD Boost, out of Context: The return of garden towns and garden villages – design and planning
In the latest issue of Context, No 162, devoted to the heritage of New Towns, Katie Parsons of Historic England explores how the organisation is working to encourage good design and to ensure that heritage issues and the lessons of … Continue reading
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IHBC’s CPD Boost: ‘Lost Neighbourhood’? Discover the one buried under New York City’s Central Park
New York City is in a constant state of flux writes Open Culture, and there are dozens of local residents who remember what—and who—was displaced to pave the way for progress, including in the creation of Central Park itself! image: Dietmar … Continue reading
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Appeal over 200-home Bethnal Green scheme refused on heritage grounds
A planning inspector has upheld a council’s decision to refuse a 189-unit Telford Homes scheme in east London, citing the proposed 16-storey development’s impact on local heritage.
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Church of Scotland’s Land & Buildings Consultation Report
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has released its analysis of the Church of Scotland’s recent land and buildings consultation. image: Church of Scotland
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Plans for the New Museum of London
The Museum of London announced the submission of a planning application to the City of London Corporation. image: Museum of London website
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Sustainable cities commitment signed by RTPI President at World Urban Forum
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and other members of the Global Planners’ Network have signed a new declaration committing to the UN vision for sustainable cities. image: RTPI website
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Derry’s ‘Eden Project Foyle’ could ‘open by 2023’
A Northern Ireland version of the Eden Project’s Cornish visitor attraction could open by summer of 2023, the team behind the plans has said, with the £67m Eden Project Foyle to include walled gardens, tree-top and floating walkways and a … Continue reading
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HE update: Pilot Scheme success in restoring Historic Barns
Historic England (HE) has updated Historic Building Restoration Grant Pilot – a collaborative project to restore historic agricultural buildings in National Parks launched in 2018 – while as every £1 of the scheme adds between £1.65 – £2.50 locally – an … Continue reading
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LPOC and partners: Research reveals listed home owners’ concerns around property crime
Research commissioned by Ecclesiastical and the Listed Property Owners’ Club has revealed Britain’s listed properties are being targeted by criminals and most listed property owners feel vulnerable. image: for illustration purposes only – Brian O’Callaghan
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New Civic Voice Design Awards website launched
The new Civic Voice Design Award website has been launched, to include a range of case studies celebrating the people’s choice for architecture.
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Looking ahead to IHBC’s 2020 Brighton School with District Councils’ Network: School Keynote – and Roeselare Mayor – on urban regeneration from Britain to Belgium, and back to Brighton
The District Councils’ Network (DCN) has launched a collection of essays sharing learning from their recent Study Tour to Roeselare, Belgium, which focussed on achievements to be detailed in person by the IHBC 2020 Brighton School second keynote speaker, its … Continue reading
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Join in IHBC’s Council+ on 23 April in London – even suggest or present your own ‘big picture’ theme or topic
Join in IHBC’s Council+ this St George’s Day, and even suggest or present your own ‘big picture’ theme or topic, 23 April, London,
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CLOSING DATE EXTENDED – #IHBCMarshAwards nominate ‘retired members’ and ‘successful learners’
#IHBCMarshAwards nominations – closing date extended to 30 March: Celebrate your local ‘retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ with £500 cash prizes and 2020 Brighton School places!
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Thinking about IHBC’s 2020 Brighton School theme? See the Bennett Institute Project on ‘Townscapes: Scotland’s mixed fortunes’
Compared to their counterparts across Britain, some might say Scotland’s towns have had mixed success and deprivation in recent years, and Benjamin Goodair comments on the main findings of the latest Bennett Institute Townscapes report, this time analysing the welfare … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick, from £820K+ costed opportunities: CC seeks WHS Visitors Centre options, 17/03, valued £40K
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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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the pool side’: GII Edwardian swimming baths restored by HESPR company Donald Insall Associates
Donald Insall Associates (DIA) has completed restoration work of Moseley Road Baths, Birmingham’s Grade II (GII) Edwardian swimming baths being converted for use as an arts and culture venue, and Leisure Opportunities highlights the outcome, with the help of Historic … Continue reading
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IHBC CPD signpost: DBW on ‘Aesthetics and Performance’ via BRE
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – features an exploration from BRE linking aesthetics – as a branch of philosophy concerning studies on the nature and expression of beauty or taste – and performance. … Continue reading
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Mayor of Lewisham calls for councils to be given greater powers to protect local heritage buildings
Damien Egan, the Mayor of Lewisham, and 13 national and local amenity societies are urging the government to give councils greater powers to protect local heritage buildings. image: LocalGov website
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CIC ‘Apprenticeships and Skills Survey’: Closing extended to 6 March and after for IHBC & HESPR – Have your say as an employer!
The employer survey about apprenticeships and skills within Construction and Built Environment, being carried out by Construction Industry Council (CIC), will take around 15 minutes, and offer a chance to shape important research about your community, with closing extended to … Continue reading
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VAG Spring Conference bursaries closing 15 March: 21-25 April, Greater Manchester
The Vernacular Architecture Group (VAG) is offering three bursaries to assist registered students or professionals in the early years of their career to attend the 2020 Spring Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Group, which will be held in Greater Manchester … Continue reading
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HES in the Scottish Budget 2020-21
Details of funding for Historic Environment Scotland (HES) in the Scottish Government’s draft budget are reported by BEFS.
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DCMS ministerial team confirmed
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has welcomed a number of new and returning ministers, following appointments made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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