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Power to Change report: Community ownership key to revival of high streets’ empty buildings

Posted on 27/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Impact of Community Businesses on People is a new report from Power to Change – an independent charitable trust for community businesses in England – that urges Councils to help local communities take ownership of empty buildings in order … Continue reading →

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Protecting Scotland’s marine environment

Posted on 27/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Scottish Government has announced a new deep sea Marine Protected Area to be established in Scotland. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton

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Pride in place: RSA Heritage Index 2020 now out –How local heritage can unlock a better future

Posted on 27/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has published its Heritage Index – ‘Pride in Place’ – for 2020, a unique tool designed to support data-led decision making on heritage at the local level.

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Scotland’s draft Infrastructure Investment Plan, closing 19/11

Posted on 27/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Consultation on the Scotland’s Draft Infrastructure Investment Plan closes 19 Nov 2020, as it sets out to offer ‘a clear vision… to support and enable an inclusive net zero emissions economy.

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THA launches free webinars: ‘Heritage Dialogues’

Posted on 27/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Heritage Alliance (THA) has announced the launch of a new series of free webinars exploring ‘important, complex and engaging heritage topics… for heritage professionals’.

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IHBC’s IMHO: Solving the town centre regeneration puzzle – ‘take stock and re-establish… USP’ with a new roadmap

Posted on 27/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The new Use Classes Order has opened the door to the more rapid re-configuration of commercial premises within town centres, but ‘Now more than ever, towns need to take stock and re-establish their USP’ – their Unique ‘Selling’ Point – … Continue reading →

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IHBC supports CIOB’s ‘Future Skills for Traditional Buildings’: 05 November, online

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The IHBC is co-sponsoring the ‘Future Skills for Traditional Buildings’ virtual conference from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) on 5 November, with speakers to include IHBC members Rory Cullen and John Edwards, and with IHBC officers hosting a digital … Continue reading →

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IHBC welcomes new AHF-HE Covid-19 recovery grants initiative: £1M for post-COVID business planning for ‘small heritage’, closing 9/11

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The IHBC has welcomed the announcement that the Cultural Recovery Fund to include smaller charities and social enterprise, assisted by the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) tandem with Historic England (HE), as £1M has been allocated to ‘charities and social enterprises … Continue reading →

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IHBC joins 27 leading planning-linked bodies to explore National Planning Forum’s 2020 Vision

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

England’s newly launched National Planning Forum (NPF) ‘2020 Vision’ explores ‘Planning in a post-COVID world’, featuring contributions by 28 leading planning-linked bodies – from the Woodland Trust and Historic Houses to the Home Builders Federation and Natural England, alongside IHBC … Continue reading →

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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £202M+ costed works: Service provision for NI programme, closing 25/11, valued £121K

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

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 (industry’s) doorstep’: Traditional skills to the fore as Nairn Courthouse restoration works complete

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

Scottish Construction Now has reported on the successful strategy in the recently completed Highland Council-led restoration works on the Category B-listed Nairn Courthouse. image: Inverness Courier

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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from London, via Ireland: Case study insights to Heritage Partnership Agreements (HPAs)

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

To expand your technical legislation knowledge of Heritage Partnership Agreements (HPA) see Issue 163 of the institute’s member journal Context where Claire Brady of Historic England explains how a HPA works in practice: as a legal agreement setting out how … Continue reading →

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Scotland’s NLHF-funded Business Support Programme applications now open: Closes noon 03/12

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

Applications are now open to the NLHF-funded Business Support Programme, ‘Surviving to Thriving’ – developed by Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) and partners – with applications due by noon, 3 December.

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‘Greatest threat in a generation’ faces UK’s heritage buildings: Vic Soc Director Joe O’Donnell

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

Britain’s architectural heritage is facing a ‘once-in-a-generation’ threat, The Guardian reports, as Joe O’Donnell – Director of one of the country’s foremost conservation groups – warns that Government’s planning reforms will favour new builds over repurposing old structures.

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Historic England Chair warns against removing statues: ‘Recontexualise’ instead

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

Removing controversial statues risks the past being ‘torn away’, and we should ‘recontextualise’ instead, said Historic England’s chair, Sir Laurie Magnus, in non-Inquiry oral evidence to the Parliamentary Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee on Physical Heritage, on 6 … Continue reading →

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Museums Association response to Oliver Dowden’s letter on contested heritage

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Museums Association (MA) has welcomed the UK Government’s support for museums in England to date, but is ‘Urging the UK Government to respect the arm’s-length principle for museums.

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CLC issues new guidance ahead of Brexit

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has published new guidance for the industry ahead of Brexit at the end of the year.

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Denmark’s ‘Utopian Garden City’ built entirely in circles: See astounding aerial views of Brøndby Haveby

Posted on 23/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

Photographer Henry Do brought the world’s attention to one such suburban settlement, Brøndby Haveby or Garden City – built in 1964 to the design of ‘genius landscape architect Erik Mygind – with a series of aerial photographs posted to Instagram.

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Lathams, IHBC’s latest HESPR registered practice: Nearly 50 HESPR service providers working to IHBC standards

Posted on 20/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

Lathams is the latest company to join the IHBC’s conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ quality assurance listing, joining the heritage businesses, offering from it East Midlands based practice services that combine architecture, planning, conservation, regeneration, and urban design.

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IHBC’s Virtual MATEs span local to global applicants, as membership accreditation takes to the airwaves

Posted on 20/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

Having piloted a Virtual Membership Application Training Event (MATE) in May, the IHBC has now rolled out several dates for more, all of which have been filled within days of being advertised, and with targeted groups ranging from antipodean applicants … Continue reading →

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IHBC asks for: ‘YOUR PROSECUTIONS DATA PLEASE’… to help us help conservation!

Posted on 20/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

IHBC’s National Database of Listed Building Prosecutions – created in 1996 on the initiative of Bob Kindred, and now with details of hundreds of case sentences – is the ‘go to’ resource on local authority prosecutions, but its contents need … Continue reading →

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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: ‘Trade bodies threaten to boot members out if they can’t prove competence’

Posted on 20/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The 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’, with notices from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features Building’s … Continue reading →

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IHBC’s features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Salford’s green spaces protected in the courts – again

Posted on 20/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

Salford City Council is celebrating after another victory in the courts to protect Salford’s green spaces. image: for illustration purposes only – open government licence v3.0

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Mapping tool for unused construction materials launched

Posted on 20/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

A mapping tool that provides contractors and their suppliers with a central database of local Materials Exchange Platform (MEP) projects to help cut waste by finding a home for unused materials has been launched.

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… Fiscal and Funding Priorities 2020 report launch by THA

Posted on 20/10/2020 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Heritage Alliance (THA) has published a new version of its key document on funding, Backing the Bedrock: Fiscal and Funding Priorities 2020.

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