Category Archives: IHBC NewsBlog

Booking is now open for the 2020 IHBC Brighton School – including the Day School – from 18-20 June, on ‘OLD TOWNS : NEW FUTURES’ and sponsored by IHBC HESPR member Heritage Collective – which will explore some of the most urgent issues in our historic environment, with … Continue reading →

Shopping malls are officially defined as buildings that form a complex of shops where visitors walk from one unit to the other through interconnected walkways, with origins dating back to the post-WWII United States, and now changes in global trends … Continue reading →

In the latest issue of Context, No 162, devoted to the heritage of New Towns, Katie Parsons of Historic England explores how the organisation is working to encourage good design and to ensure that heritage issues and the lessons of … Continue reading →

New York City is in a constant state of flux writes Open Culture, and there are dozens of local residents who remember what—and who—was displaced to pave the way for progress, including in the creation of Central Park itself! image: Dietmar … Continue reading →

The District Councils’ Network (DCN) has launched a collection of essays sharing learning from their recent Study Tour to Roeselare, Belgium, which focussed on achievements to be detailed in person by the IHBC 2020 Brighton School second keynote speaker, its … Continue reading →

Join in IHBC’s Council+ this St George’s Day, and even suggest or present your own ‘big picture’ theme or topic, 23 April, London,

#IHBCMarshAwards nominations – closing date extended to 30 March: Celebrate your local ‘retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ with £500 cash prizes and 2020 Brighton School places!

Compared to their counterparts across Britain, some might say Scotland’s towns have had mixed success and deprivation in recent years, and Benjamin Goodair comments on the main findings of the latest Bennett Institute Townscapes report, this time analysing the welfare … 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’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this week … Continue reading →

Donald Insall Associates (DIA) has completed restoration work of Moseley Road Baths, Birmingham’s Grade II (GII) Edwardian swimming baths being converted for use as an arts and culture venue, and Leisure Opportunities highlights the outcome, with the help of Historic … Continue reading →

Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – features an exploration from BRE linking aesthetics – as a branch of philosophy concerning studies on the nature and expression of beauty or taste – and performance. … Continue reading →

Booking is now open for the 2020 IHBC Brighton School – including the Day School – from 18-20 June, on ‘OLD TOWNS : NEW FUTURES’ and sponsored by IHBC HESPR member Heritage Collective – which will explore some of the … Continue reading →

IHBC Branches, volunteers and networks now have more time to celebrate local retired members active in the community, and successful learners, with nominations to the IHBC’s Marsh Award now open until 30 March!

Neath is a market town like many others in Wales. Standard in its layout, a town centre with everything within walking distance. Historically bustling. But like its similarities, its problems also mirror those seen in towns across Wales, blighted by … Continue reading →

The Derbyshire Telegraph has reported on how the historic Derbyshire Grade II* (GII*) listed Wingfield Station, built in 1840 and one of the world’s oldest surviving railway stations, is to be rescued.

North Somerset Council could buy Birnbeck Pier, writes The Weston Mercury, after agreeing to explore the potential of a compulsory purchase order (CPO).

A government department responsible for heritage sites did not go to court over a controversial planning decision at an ancient monument because its grounds for an injunction had been ‘fatally undermined’ by previous decisions.

IHBC’s 2020 Brighton School conference, ‘OLD TOWNS : NEW FUTURES’ sponsored by HESPR member Heritage Collective, explores the challenging topic of our towns and urban centres, with the Day School’s ‘Economics’ theme led by SLR consultancy’s Paul McTernan, offering a … Continue reading →

Kent’s Ramsgate, designated a Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) by Historic England and the focus of the IHBC’s South East (SE) Branch’s day conference and AGM on 13 March – a Brighton 2020 ‘pre-School’ event – also is the focus of … Continue reading →

Don’t forget the #IHBCMarshAwards for 2020: ‘Your new chance to nominate ‘retired IHBC members’ and/or ‘successful learners’ for our awards’, closing 29 Feb 2020

A shopfront, in its simplest form, is a door with a window and a signboard, and The Engine Shed take at a ‘bloggish’ look at some of Scotland’s shops through the centuries. image: Fiona Newton

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’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this week … Continue reading →

The latest bid to revitalise the historic Crystal Palace Subway is set to be decided, notes The Bromley Times, with councillors to consider tipping millions of pounds into the project.

At each Annual General Meeting (AGM) the IHBC elects, re-elects or appoints trustees and officers who are nominated and voted in by Full Members of the institute, and as nominations to the next AGM – at our 2020 School in … Continue reading →

The West Bridgford Wire is celebrating ther news that, following an application to Historic England Lutterell Hall has been listed Grade II (GII), thanks to Historic England.