Category Archives: IHBC NewsBlog

The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Christian Trust, has launched the two 2021 Awards – for civic contributions by retired members, and for successful learning in heritage skills – with prizes that include £500 and a free … Continue reading →

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 pick features a … Continue reading →

Police are investigating a case of criminal damage after a face mask was painted on a huge South Downs landmark the Long Man of Wilmington.

The IHBC’s regular CPD Circular is out, offering ‘members and their networks… up-to-date information on continuing professional development (CPD)’, free to non-members and with free events postings too!

The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Christian Trust, has launched the two 2021 Awards – for civic contributions by retired members, and for successful learning in heritage skills – with prizes that include £500 and a free … Continue reading →

Savills agency has issued a summary of its new research linked to sustainability. image: for illustration purposes only

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 news from across the development sector, and this week features the LA … Continue reading →

Brixton Buzz reports on the GLA’s Head of Development has quashed the Mayor’s decision to allow Lambeth Council’s controversial grant of planning permission for the local Taylor Tower go ahead, on the grounds that Lambeth Council did not provide the … Continue reading →

To help employers and practitioners the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the diverse career opportunities advertised on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, and recent posts include roles from project management (PM) & local conservation services to ‘archaeology and heritage’ … Continue reading →

The IHBC’s Toolbox Guidance Note, on ‘Alterations to Listed Buildings’, was developed with UK-wide consultation and is now available for reference and feedback.

The Welsh Government has reported on the recent publication of ‘The Slave Trade and the British Empire: An Audit of Commemoration in Wales’.

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 pick features a … Continue reading →

The former Failsworth Industrial Society building on Oldham Road in north Manchester has been branded ‘dangerous’ by building inspectors and is to be demolished, writes the Manchester Evening News.

Current owner Wahid Samady was ordered to find a new buyer for the pier by the High Court. Weston-super-Mare’s dilapidated Birnbeck Pier has been sold – to its current owner.

The cross-sector partnership of lead national and international bodies – including the IHBC and the Friends of the Earth (FoE) – that signed a Joint Statement to ‘express our deep concern about the latest proposals for the expansion of Permitted … Continue reading →

The IHBC has launched a feedback form for users of our CPD Recognised Service Provider network.

The Ecclesiastical Heritage Risk Barometer 2020 offers research to help answer the question: ‘How can the heritage sector adapt and thrive in the digital age’?

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 news from across the development sector, and this week features Scottish Construction … Continue reading →

A £4.5m project to restore some of Paisley town centre’s historic architecture to its former glory has now completed work at several prominent sites on and around the town’s High Street, Scottish Construction Now reports.

Westminster’s new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ‘Conservation, Places and People’ (CPP APPG), chaired by Layla Moran MP is today expected to close its first Inquiry – ‘21st Century Places – Values & Benefits‘, but is accepting calls for extension … Continue reading →

The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Christian Trust, has launched the two 2021 Awards – for civic contributions by retired members, and for successful learning in heritage skills – with prizes that include £500 and a free … Continue reading →

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has issued a web resource that ‘brings together research, guidance and estimates to help government and private organisations consider the value of culture and heritage capital’, parts of which feature on separate … Continue reading →

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 second pick features … Continue reading →

An NHS consultant could have to tear down the two-storey house that replaced a bungalow as he appeals to a planning inquiry to prevent its demolition, reports The Daily Mail. image: for illustration purposes only

Westminster’s new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ‘Conservation, Places and People’ (CPP APPG), chaired by Layla Moran MP and with the IHBC as its Secretariat, has launched its first Inquiry into ‘21st Century Places – Values & Benefits‘, a wide-ranging … Continue reading →