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- IHBC’s December ‘CPD Circular’ now out: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events & resources, with Branch & National AGMs, Surgeries, CPD Partnerships & more 28/11/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 28/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ & ‘Management ‘ Signpost: DB’s ‘brief outline of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’, with terms, and amendments 28/11/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £2.4M+ of weekly works: BC seeks review of Conservation Areas, to £50K 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Two companies fined total of £190k for unauthorised Grade I listed building works following BNES council prosecution 28/11/2025
- Government consultation: ‘Reforms to the statutory consultee system’, to 13/01/2026 28/11/2025
- Gardens Trust on ‘Government Consultation on Removal of the Gardens Trust as a Statutory Consultee’ 28/11/2025
- NLHF launches Future Heritage Leadership Programme, open to 10/12, starting March 2026 28/11/2025
- As UK City of Culture 2029 opens, new ‘UK Town of Culture’ competition – to shine a spotlight on towns – opens soon too 28/11/2025
- UK Parliamentary Cttee. launches International Climate Policy Inquiry, ‘on UK climate policy and finance’, seeking evidence, to 7/01/2026 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European Heritage Excellence Day 2025 spotlights innovation, creativity and community engagement 28/11/2025
- PAS UPDATES 28/11/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost from Sheehan Quirke via Open Culture: ‘How did the world get so ugly?’ 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (duplicate) doorstep’: Plans for first Iron Age broch ‘in 2000 years’ approved for Highlands 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep’: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF 25/11/2025
- ‘Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ – with ‘nature as essential to sustaining growth and a healthy society’ 25/11/2025
- HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc. 25/11/2025
- Government’s Pride in Place: Strategy update 25/11/2025
- Winners of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards announced! 25/11/2025
- Joining the dots: A single EDI portal for the sector 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome 25/11/2025
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IHBC welcomes HES’ ‘Heritage Training Course for Planners’ consultation – Please ‘Give your Views’, via survey (to 22/08), workshops (sign up by 28/07) & more
The IHBC has welcomed the news that Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is developing an online training course for planners about the historic environment, and seeks input to shape the content.
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Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August: IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments
As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.
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IHBC’s ‘Legislation & Policy’ Signpost: Landmark right to light case
An office building owner avoids demolition order in a landmark ‘rights to light’ case, is reposted in by Pinsent Masons.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £151K+ of weekly works: Church seeks practice for NLHF-linked project, to £116K+ and 06/08
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is from a church seeking a practice to deliver … Continue reading
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AHF Publishes 2024/25 Impact Report
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is sharing its fifth annual Impact Report.
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SAVE at 50! Fundraising appeal aims for £100K
image for illustration SAVE Britain’s Heritage – SAVE – is 50 this year, and asking for donors to be part of its anniversary year for which there is ongoing appeal with a target of £100,000.
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HEF with HE issue England’s new ‘Historic Environment Overview’: Celebrating ‘impact of… strategic collaboration’
image for illustration: Fiona Newton The latest edition of the ‘Historic Environment Overview’ has been issued by Historic Environment Forum (HEF), with support from Historic England (HE).
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SPAB ‘Old House Project’ completes, and now for sale ‘to become a home’
image for illustration: SPAB The SPAB team is delighted that the seven-year Old House Project is now completed as the house, St Andrew’s Chapel is for sale, ready to become a home again.
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New Coalition to save Peter Womersley’s Bernat Klein Studio
image for illustration: Bernat Klein Studio 2010 by Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Bernat Klein Foundation (BKF), the National Trust for Scotland and Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) have launched a coalition bid, supported by The … Continue reading
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Volunteering is thriving – Just not where you’ve been looking: We are parts of something bigger
If volunteering is really in crisis, why are so many volunteer-led organisations flourishing, asks Reach Volunteering?
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: From Principles to Practice – Approaches for High-Quality Baukultur
Davos Baukultur Alliance – which ‘brings together… focus groups to expand thought leadership and develop practical tools’ – has published ‘From Principles to Practice-Approaches for High Quality Baukultur’.
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Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August: IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments
As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.
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IHBC SE Branch Summer Social – Friday 25 July, Pevensey Castle: Places available – ‘Book, bring a picnic… & pop in & out as suits!’
The IHBC’s South East (SE) Branch summer gathering and site visit for 2025 is to Pevensey Castle, a scheduled monument in the care of English Heritage, with all welcome (including ‘kids and dogs’) and CPD certificates on request, but please … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Research Signpost: UKRI – New fund will focus research investment on local priorities
image for illustration UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) reports that an allocation of at least £30 million for each of 10 regions across the UK will set local experts at the heart of research and innovation investment, to grow local … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: There’s a reason why some Notting Hill residents are painting their house fronts black
image for illustration Some Notting Hill residents are painting the fronts of their colourful houses to put off influencer crowding on the streets, reports Secret London.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Housebuilders to pay £100m to avoid legal decision on breaking competition law
Britain’s biggest housebuilders have agreed to pay £100m towards affordable homes to avoid a regulator’s decision on whether they broke competition law, reports BBC News.
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Wales’ Commission for Tertiary Education and Research (‘Medr’) launches Strategic Plan 2025-2030
The Medr Strategic Plan sets out ambitions for a collaborative tertiary education and research sector, as part of its response to the Welsh Government’s strategic priorities for tertiary education and research.
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£380 million boost for creative industries to help drive innovation, regional growth and investment
Thousands of creative professionals and businesses across the UK are set to benefit from a new £380 million investment package as part of the Creative Industries Sector Plan. GOV.UK writes:
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HE: Uncovering local history hidden on our streets
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald We are surrounded by historic designs and constructions that were initially invented for everyday purposes says Historic England (HE), and the details and tiny variations of these objects can help tell what was happening in … Continue reading
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Engine Shed on ‘Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders’
A Engine Shed publication offers a short guide to ‘Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders’.
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Centre for Cities: Five reforms to anti-supply measures to boost urban housebuilding
image for illustration The new Centre for Cities report – Breaking the Bottlenecks – sets out a range of anti-supply measures the Government should reform to reach its target for 1.5 million new homes.
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IHBC welcomes RICS’ #IHBCShrewsbury2025 School ‘Friend’ benefit: RICS’ rates for members at Global Building Conservation Conference, ‘Sharing heritage skills…’, 25/09, online, 7hrs CPD
The IHBC is delighted to announce that, thanks not least to the efforts of our West Midlands Branch team and School Friend lead, RICS & IHBC member Jessica Jones, IHBC members (all categories) can enjoy RICS rates at the online … Continue reading
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IHBC SE Branch Summer Social – Friday 25 July, Pevensey Castle: Places available – ‘Book, bring a picnic… & pop in & out as suits!’
The IHBC’s South East (SE) Branch summer gathering and site visit for 2025 is to Pevensey Castle, a scheduled monument in the care of English Heritage, with all welcome (including ‘kids and dogs’) and CPD certificates on request, but please … Continue reading
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Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August: IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments
As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.
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Tagged accreditation, building, climate change, conservation, cpd, environment, expertise, government, heritage, nature, planning, skills, training, webinar
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