Author Archives: IHBC

The High Streets Task Force has released a new report, ‘Place Leadership in English Local Authorities: a critical success factor in vital and viable high streets’, drawing on the experience of successful place leaders. image for illustration: Open Government Licence … Continue reading →

Shocking new research shows that Energy Performance Certificates are inaccurate at best, useless at worst, and easily rigged. image for illustration

Arts Council England outlines how it sees villages, towns and cities across the country thriving through a collaborative approach to culture. image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0

A new Trees and Woodland Strategy Toolkit from The Tree Council equips Local Authorities to plan, create or update their own Trees and Woodland Strategies (TAWS). image for illustration

Scotland’s Museums and Galleries New Strategy 2023- 2030 sets a vision for collective action that builds on the achievements of the first strategy. image MGS

The Association for Project Management (APM) has launched a new digital badge for its volunteers to recognise their commitment to supporting the profession and to raise the visibility of the important work they do.

A historic military training camp could soon have its key features recognised as scheduled monuments as Historic Environment Scotland (HES) seeks views on proposals to designate Stobs Camp. image: By Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69561935

The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) has launched its new strategy  with Heritage 2033, which has four investment principles: Saving heritage; Protecting the environment; Inclusion, access and participation; and Organisational sustainability. image: NLHF website

Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities (DfC) Historic Environment Division (HED) has issued ‘Conservation Principles: Guidance for the sustainable management of the historic environment in Northern Ireland’, supported by ‘Applying the Conservation Principles’.

The Architects Registration Board (ARB) has been given new powers in the Building Safety Act 2022 to monitor the training and development architects carry out throughout their careers, to support architects’ commitment to continued learning and uphold public confidence in … Continue reading →

England’s Office for Place, first announced on 20 July 2021 by Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLHUC) to help ‘make it easier for all neighbourhood communities… to require what they find beautiful and refuse what they find ugly’, … Continue reading →

The Health and Safety Executive’s Working Minds initiative seeks to normalise conversations around work-related stress and make them as routine as managing any other health and safety issue. image:  Elisa Ventur on Unsplash

Despite a decline in the number of Christians in the UK, the public overwhelmingly support the nation’s 39,000 churches, chapels and meeting houses, according to the findings of a new opinion poll commissioned by the National Churches Trust (NCT).