Category Archives: IHBC NewsBlog

IHBC members are reminded that applications to the Heritage Fund’s £92m Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage, which offers grants from £10,000 to £3million, close on 17 August.

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 →

The proposal for the large quadrant development at the Guildford Casino nightclub site – included 267 student bedrooms and a rooftop terrace – has been unanimously rejected by Guildford Borough Council (GBC), reports Surrey Live.

You may own ‘a Pevsner’ or two, or more, to help you with your architectural conservation and history, but did you know that a lunch with Nikolaus Pevsner in a Westminster pub in the spring of 1967 led to the … Continue reading →

The IHBC has submitted its response to the call for relevant information ‘on the vital restoration and renewal of the Houses of Parliament’, as part of a review into the renovation plans, which closed 7 August. Parliamentary copyright images are … Continue reading →

The IHBC has welcomed the line-up for the 8th Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival, just announced, from The Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum and SPAB, with all the organisers and presenters donating their time to ‘Celebrate Edinburgh’s Traditional Buildings’.

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’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s … Continue reading →

Historic England is splashing out almost £120,000 to save a historic Martello Tower in Clacton, reports The Harwich and Manningtree Standard.

Ambitious plans to restore Dover’s Grade I Listed Maison Dieu have taken a major step forward with planning and listed building consent, as the £9m plans will transform the Maison Dieu as the heritage centrepiece in the ongoing regeneration of … Continue reading →

Plans to bulldoze Mistley factory’s boiler house and stand-by generator house in a conservation area have been refused by Tendring Council, reports The Harwich and Manningtree Standard.

While provisionally welcoming [many] aspects of the England’s White Paper consultation on ‘Planning for the future’ (closing 12 weeks from 6 August), the IHBC has registered its serious concern over a ‘worryingly simplistic’ strategy for local plans highlighted by Robert … Continue reading →

Following on from the launch by Welsh company The Environment Study Centre (ESC) of a new on-line course for professionals seeking a qualification in dealing with the retrofitting of older and traditional buildings, programme dates have been released.

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 →

An historic observatory is set to become a base for international artists to stay in while visiting Scotland’s capital city, reports The National.

An ambitious masterplan has been unveiled to breathe fresh life into Lowestoft over the next 10 to 15 years, but what does it include, asks The Lowestoft Journal?

The IHBC is sad to announce the death of our Past President David Lovie, a distinguished conservation professional and IHBC volunteer who, in 1997, led on drafting the founding constitution of the Institute as a professional body, charity, and lead … Continue reading →

The IHBC’s latest Toolbox Guidance Note, drafted in consultation with the Institute’s Legal Panel, reviews the recent Supreme Court conclusions in Dill v Secretary of State… [2020], answering ‘When is a listed building not a listed building?’ with:‘…when it has … 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 members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s … Continue reading →

10 eyesore Glasgow buildings deserve the bulldozer treatment according to Glasgow Live’s followers.

Following his call for IHBC member feedback on pandemic pressures and priorities as the lockdown eases, IHBC Chair David McDonald has asked the IHBC’s four lead Committees to feed back to the board thoughts on ‘issues that you… think should … Continue reading →

The IHBC has had a ‘CPD Hat-trick‘ of posts supporting conservation-related practice in the 21 July Newsletter of Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – the construction industry knowledge base and host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – as more than … Continue reading →

Following support from IHBC and partners for the Local Government Association (LGA)-led call to ‘Keep planning local’, the LGA has launched a ‘recovery and resilience planning package ‘of recommendations to Government on how to enhance the planning system whilst ensuring … 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 top pick this … Continue reading →

A tour through the history and future of one of the Highland capital’s most prominent buildings will form the basis of an online talk, reports The Ross-shire Journal.

Alison McCandlish was the IHBC’s social media support at the IHBC’s 2020 Virtual School, and here she explores the parallel and overlapping public twitter experience, at #IHBCVirtualSchool2020, which boasted an ‘overall reach of… over 1 million users, with 359 tweets… … Continue reading →