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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £71K+ of weekly works: Authority seeks landscape & HE management plan, to 11/04 & £40K
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 a call from a national authority for a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Parliament’s) doorstep: House of Commons Research Briefing – ‘Closure of high street services in rural areas’
image for illustration The House of Commons Library has published a briefing outlining the impact of the closure of high street services in rural areas.
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IHBC’s ‘members-only’ invitation to our next Council, 24/03, online from 1.15pm, includes ‘The London Charterhouse – A Case Study in Heritage Estate Management’ and much more
All our members have been sent invitations to the next IHBC CPD-led Council, with new business, and learning that includes London Charterhouse Director of Estates & Conservation, Aimée Felton on ‘The London Charterhouse – A Case Study in Heritage Estate … Continue reading
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Booking opens for IHBC’s 2025 School, #IHBCShrewsbury2025, June 12-14: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more.. for all your conservation needs… ‘in Context’
Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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CLOSING SOON:Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s double-up – Designing Buildings on Conservation Wiki + Marsh Awards to 31/03
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’, and this week features New Civil Engineer on ‘Statutory consultees removed to streamline planning…’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Dispute over who got Waterworld listed… either way Council says it won’t cost more
image for illustration: Waterworld, Wrexham by Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Wrexham Council could exploit the new Grade II listing of Waterworld to access ‘funding that was otherwise unavailable for a non-listed asset’, reports the Wrexham News.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: STBA on CALECHE – Circular Innovation for Historic Buildings
image for illustration As a project partner, the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA) is working with European experts in the CALECHE Project, developing sustainable solutions for historic building conservation.
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Booking opens for IHBC’s 2025 School, #IHBCShrewsbury2025, June 12-14: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more.. for all your conservation needs… ‘in Context’
Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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IHBC’s ‘members-only’ invitation to our next Council, 24/03, online from 1.15pm, includes ‘The London Charterhouse – A Case Study in Heritage Estate Management’ and much more
All our members have been sent invitations to the next IHBC CPD-led Council, with new business, and learning that includes London Charterhouse Director of Estates & Conservation, Aimée Felton on ‘The London Charterhouse – A Case Study in Heritage Estate … Continue reading
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IHBC updates formal notice for 2025 AGM: 13 May 2025, 5.30pm for 6pm start, online
IHBC Chair David McDonald has notified all members of the IHBC of the details of the IHBC’s 2025 AGM, to take place online on Tuesday 13 May at 6pm – including those standing down – with the full programme starting … Continue reading
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CLOSING SOON:Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
Know any emerging professionals or practitioners who’ve shown eagerness and accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, or retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities – Nominate them for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Scottish Government’s ‘Energy Performance Certificate reform – Consultation analysis’
A new report offers independent analysis of the consultation on EPC reform, held by the Scottish Government to gain views and greater understanding on what could be achieved in this area, has been issued.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1.9M+ of weekly works: NI govt service seeks team for modernisation of A-listed building in CA, to 24/03.
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 a call from a Northern Ireland (NI) government … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (industry) doorstep’: Planning shake-up? Industry says councils need to be adequately resourced
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Industry welcomes planning shake-up but tells government to ensure councils are adequately resourced, reports Building.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Digitally Preserving Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park, Yukon
image for illustration: Pauline Cove Hershel Island by Maedward, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The University of Calgary reports on its exploration of how digital technology can be used to preserve, protect, and mobilize knowledge about Qikiqtaruk Herchel … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Context 182 (Part 2), with some very special ‘Special features’, as Alec Clifton-Taylor and listing are re-visited
The new issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context is now out– No. 182 – with special features looking at heritage from the past and for the future, on Listing and following the inimitable Alec!
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IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: IHBC supports Gardens Trust Assembly, Cowcross St, 03/04, on ‘… the UK Planning Systems’, with 15% off for IHBC members
The IHBC is delighted to support the Gardens Trust Assembly on ‘Historic Parks and Gardens in the UK Planning Systems’, in person at Cowcross Street, London on 3 April, with a special 15% reduction for members (see dedicated code below).
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REMINDER: Join IHBC SW from everywhere (or in person at Redruth), 13 March pilot livestream & more, (from £20 online) with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Placemaking and Context’ – an ‘IHBC CPD Branch Partnership’ event for our Annual School #IHBCShrewsbury2025
Join the IHBC’s South West (SW) Branch Partnership event for special and rare CPD on design and placemaking for historic areas, with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Heritage and Design’ and ‘Placemaking in Historic Areas’, (In-Person or Online, 13/03; supported by IHBC’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Professional signpost: Second Reading of the ‘Permitted Development Rights (Extension) Bill [HL]’ (debated on Friday 7 February 2025): ‘… we get some of our flood prevention done as a result of allowing people to extend’
You can review heritage-related discussions, informed by Parliament or otherwise, in the Second Reading of the Permitted Development Rights (Extension) Bill [HL] (debated on Friday 7 February 2025, in the House of Lords, as moved by Lord Lucas (Con).
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s double-up – Designing Buildings on Conservation Wiki + Marsh Awards to 31/03
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’, and this week features Designing Buildings (DB) on IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – ‘Everything you … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (church/charity) doorstep’: Cathedral launches urgent fundraising push after becoming charity
image for illustration: Peterborough Cathedral website 900-year-old Peterborough Cathedral in Cambridgeshire has launched an urgent fundraising campaign after facing financial struggles in its first year as a registered charity, reports Civil Society.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: UK redoubles Horizon push as Kyle forges deeper R&I links with EU
UK Science and Tech Secretary announces renewed push to turbo-charge UK-EU science and technology links, to tackle shared global challenges.
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