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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Law & Policy Update – ‘A village is not a historic town’ 21/10/2025
- IHBC Research Signpost: Impacts of changes to local authority funding on small to medium heritage organisations 21/10/2025
- 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 21/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 21/10/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: LocalGov on ‘Planning recruitment’ threats as 33 bodies (inc. IHBC) call for funds 21/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Welsh council to appeal High Court quashing of Article 4s over ‘misleading’ officers’ report 21/10/2025
- TCPA seeks support in Campaign for Healthy Homes: Joining health and PD rights advocacy in Planning Bill changes 21/10/2025
- Licensing builders must happen following ECO debacle, says FMB 21/10/2025
- Honouring the legacy of the Sycamore Gap tree: a new creative commission 21/10/2025
- Built Environment Committee responds to New Towns Taskforce Report 21/10/2025
- £10Mn+ Water company fines fund local restoration projects 21/10/2025
- Elle Cass next Chair Royal Town Planning Institute Board 21/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: UNESCO launches the first global Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at MONDIACULT 2025 21/10/2025
- 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
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Don’t forget: IHBC’s HESPR-linked service promotion is now even more accessible to clients when using our map-based search
IHBC members, colleagues and client bodies can now find the office locations of HESPR members – IHBC’s Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition (HESPR) scheme – using our new map-based facility. images : HESPR logo and Google Maps
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IHBC’s ‘Research & Finance’ Signposts: British Geological Survey research for HES shows Scotland can re-establish its stone industry
image for illustration: Fiona Newton British Geological Survey research, commissioned by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), reveals an opportunity to re-establish the Scottish building stone market in order to maintain the country’s historic buildings.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC features Building on the ‘lessons… from M&S decision’
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 Building on the ‘What lessons can be learnt from the … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (public) doorstep’: Campaign to save Centenary Building as site set to be demolished
image for illustration: Centenary Building, Salford by Skip88, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons An appeal has been launched to save the award winning Centenary building after it was announced that it would be demolished, reports Salford Now
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Looking back at Tropical Modernism, from CHF
image for illustration: Old building of Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone by Jared & Melanie & Huxley Ponchot, CC BY 2.0 Dr Christopher Turner, curator of ‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence’, reports on the exhibition for the Commonwealth Heritage Forum … Continue reading
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IHBC is ‘looking back’ at Context 181 (Part 1): Explore Urban housing… council housing revied, DH Lawrence’s birthplace, prefabs, gentrification and more
With the new issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context now out, did you work all the way through our last one – Issue No. 181 – and the many facets of urban housing, design, conservation and use, with lessons on … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1.2M+ of weekly works: Council seeks evaluation in theatre project, to 15/01 & £240k
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 Council for a multi-disciplinary … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Happy residents (inc. Tracy Emin) as replacement windows refused by Thanet DC
image for illustration: image for illustration: Arlington House Margate by Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Flat owners – including artist Tracey Emin – are rejoicing after a controversial plan to replace the windows of an ‘iconic’ tower block at Arlington House … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (railway) doorstep’: Network Rail starts £3.4m iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct repair
image for illustration: Glenfinnan Viaduct by By Matthieu Riegler, CC BY 3.0 Network Rail has started a £3.4m project this month to repair the iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct in the Scottish Highlands, to ‘future-proof’ the category A-listed bridge for generations.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica… made with AI
image for illustration: St Peter’s Basilica by Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In the trailer below for the world’s first 3D replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Yves Ubelmann speaks of using ‘AI for Good,’ which isn’t just an … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes new addition to members’ publications listing: Dr Kathryn Davies IHBC on ‘Vernacular wall paintings in the Welsh Marches, 1550–1650’
Kathryn Davies’ Artisan Art: Vernacular wall paintings in the Welsh Marches, 1550–1650 is a revised & updated edition (August 2024) of the original 2008 edition.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC features Building on the ‘Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh… reborn as Edinburgh Futures Institute!’
image for illustration: Edinburgh Futures Institute by McPhail, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 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 features Victorian Royal … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Seafront restaurant plan lodged for South Ayrshire town
image for illustration: South Bay, Troon by Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ‘The diner would be a tourism boost’, according to the applicant, as plans for a new seafront restaurant in place of an old toilet block … Continue reading
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IHBC’s December ‘CPD Circular’: For cost-conscious and time-sensitive conservation learning… events, awards, calls and much more
IHBC’s new CPD Circular offers our current listing of accessible and cost-effective Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities for historic and built environment conservation professionals and their networks, now with an even simpler format, and including the usual range of Branch … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes re-opening of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris: 7-8 December, in time for Christmas 2025
image for illustration: by Ali Sabbagh – Notre Dame De Paris, CC0, Ali Sabbagh, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The reopening of Notre-Dame will extend from December 7-8, 2024, and after, including the Octave of Reopening (8 to 15 December) and … Continue reading
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IHBC Chair & Membership Secretary invite members to free MATE sessions piloting shorter accreditation forms: Next MATEs for members working with Churches etc. (9/12); Local Authorities (11/12) & the private sector (13/12) – and more to come in 2025
As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme – that advise on accreditation applications – we’re offering free online sessions to pilot new streamlined application forms.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £5.2M+ of weekly works: Council seeks evaluation in theatre project, to 18/12 & £8k
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 an English Council for an … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (retail) doorstep’ 1: This is Money on M&S demolition… ‘a big win’
‘Marks & Spencer plan to knock down flagship Oxford Street store approved’ reports This is Money, describing it as ‘a big victory for chief executive Stuart Machin…’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (retail) doorstep’ 2: SAVE Britain’s Heritage on M&S demolition – ‘stop incentivising demolition’
image for illustration: Christmas lights, Marks & Spencer, Oxford Street W1 by Robin Sones, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons SAVE Britain’s Heritage calls for urgent reforms after M&S ruling highlights gaping holes in national planning system.
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IHBC applauds RTPI NW’s e-bulletin feature by IHBC CO Sammy Woodford: ‘Out of Office: Planning Professionals in the Classroom’
Student games exhibition, November 2023, Manchester (Photo Sammy Woodford) Cumberland Conservation Officer Sammy Woodford has been featured in the recent RTPI North West news e-bulletin, writing on ‘Planning Professionals in the Classroom’.
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IHBC Chair & Membership Secretary invite members to free MATE sessions piloting shorter accreditation forms: Next MATEs for members working with Churches etc. (9/12); Local Authorities (11/12) & the private sector (13/12) – and more to come in 2025
As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme – that advise on accreditation applications – we’re offering free online sessions to pilot new streamlined application forms.
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IHBC’s ‘Finance and Economics’ Signpost: HE on ‘Heritage-led tourism supporting England’s economy’
image for illustration: Ironbridge, Shropshire by Seán O’Reilly Historic England’s (HE) new Heritage Counts Report on Tourism has been launched, underpinning the case that heritage tourism supports thousands of jobs and makes a substantial contribution to the Gross Value Added … Continue reading
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IHBC HESPR ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC features NCE on inspection techniques on GII listed Hull tidal surge barrier
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 features New Civil Engineer (NCE) on ‘Techniques… for the inspection of Grade II … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (demolition) doorstep’: Stirling Prize-winning Salford building to be demolished
image for illustration: Centenary Building, Salford by Skip88, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The Centenary Building, which won the inaugural design gong in 1996, will be bulldozed as part of the wider £2.5bn Crescent regeneration project, reports Place … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles
Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet, report write Architectural Digest’s Katherine McLaughlin and Jessica Cherner in Open Culture: ‘Sitting near the Black Sea, the town is full of half-finished, fully abandoned … Continue reading
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