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- IHBC’s new format ‘CPD Circular’ : Colour coded for quicker access to CPD -from Branches (EM on Master Planning), partnerships to networks & more – including members-only Virtual Council, 08/04 07/04/2026
- Final details on IHBC’s members-only Virtual Council now out… on ‘Conservation Officers & Services’: Book now for 8 April, 4.30pm 07/04/2026
- IHBC’s Research for Practice Digest No.7 now out: ‘Connecting conservation research and professional practice’ 07/04/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: CIAT via DB – Beyond the render… embedding AI tools into architectural education… 07/04/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: HE on ‘New measures to protect Historic Shipwrecks from heritage crime’ 07/04/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: DB on winners in IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Award 07/04/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Rare Scottish chain-bar suspension bridge secures £1/4Mn support for heritage restoration 07/04/2026
- Defra on England’s first Land Use Framework ‘plans to reshape how we protect and manage our land’ 07/04/2026
- RIBA on Single Construction Regulator: ‘..new system must raise the standard’ so needs ‘a competence?led approach’ 07/04/2026
- SPAB: Emerging Building Craftsperson of the Year Award… to 21 August 07/04/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: What impact does a heritage designation have on (Canadian) home insurance? 07/04/2026
- Latest on IHBC’s members-only Virtual Council now out… on ‘Conservation Officers & Services’: Book now for 8 April, 4.30pm 03/04/2026
- IHBC’s Residential Full School Booking closes, with some non-residential open, and Day & Virtual School places 03/04/2026
- IHBC is planning for growth, so grow with us by volunteering, with our Committees, Boards and Branches, or Panels, Groups and more as suits – just let us know! 03/04/2026
- IHBC opens Corporate Plan 2026-30 (‘CP30’) development with CP25 consultation, noting Charter, Parliamentary 5 Commitments, volunteer investment & more – to 28/02 & after 03/04/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: TCPA on ‘From slums to homes – the story of the Campaign for Healthy Homes…’ 03/04/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £234K costed works: City seeks services for new neighbourhood in heritage context, to 22/04 03/04/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Norwich Debenhams flat bid approved by councillors 03/04/2026
- Welsh Government: ‘Assessing workforce requirements for home retrofitting in Wales’, to ‘meet a Net Zero pathway’ 03/04/2026
- Planning reforms have ‘numerous safeguards’, Government insists in response to Select Committee report 03/04/2026
- Campaign for National Parks on Fingleton Review: The worst averted — but still a backward step for national parks and nature 03/04/2026
- CIOB & FMB State of Trade Survey: Construction SMEs face cost pressures & insolvencies despite continuous growth 03/04/2026
- Major employment drive to help unlock 200,000 new jobs and apprenticeships for next generation 03/04/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’:Unesco-protected monastery in Lviv damaged by Russian drone strike 03/04/2026
- IHBC’s Context 186 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Bob Kindred’s ‘Periodically’… bite-sized & from the best 31/03/2026
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Time too tight to catch up on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ at #IHBCSwansea2023 on June 23: Simply book your virtual Day School place from £30+VAT and review the record after!
On 23 June the IHBC hosts a targeted examination into ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, with current thinking from lead practitioners, funders, researchers & bodies across the UK, so if you are too busy to even drop in live … Continue reading
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Welsh Government Deputy Minister Dawn Bowden MS to speak at IHBC 2023 School – ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ – 23 June, in Swansea and online: #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC warmly welcomes the agreement by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS to address Day School delegates – in Swansea and online – at the IHBC’s 2023 Annual School: ‘Climate Change the Historic … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: Helping to keep a critically endangered craft alive
Daniel Cheetham, carpenter and SPAB Millwright Fellow 2023, reflects on how he became involved with millwrighting, a critically endangered craft. image: Daniel Cheetham – SPAB website
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: London theatre producer forced to tear down ‘fortress’ home in Norfolk
Adam Spiegel and his wife, the owners of a north Norfolk home dubbed a coastal ‘fortress’ by locals have been ordered to tear it down. image for illustration: Palmiped, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Practice insurance issues? Learn what you need to know on risk, PI, claims and more with MFL Insurance Group – #IHBCSwansea2023’s Principal Sponsor – at IHBC’s virtual MarketPLace:LIVE, online from 4.30, 21/06: Free and all welcome
MFL Insurance Group, heritage practice insurance specialists and #IHBCSwansea 2023 Principal Sponsor will advise delegates and visitors to IHBC’s MarketPlace:LIVE on risk, Professional Indemnity (PI), claims, IHBC’s partnership scheme and more, on line & on 21 June from 4.30pm, and … Continue reading
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Time too tight to catch up on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ at #IHBCSwansea2023 on June 23: Simply book your virtual Day School place from £30+VAT and review the record after!
On 23 June the IHBC hosts a targeted examination into ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, with current thinking from lead practitioners, funders, researchers & bodies across the UK, so if you are too busy to even drop in live … Continue reading
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IHBC updates our ‘Retrofitting of Traditional Buildings’ Guidance Note for online ToolBox and #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC has issued an new update of the Guidance Note on ‘Retrofitting of Traditional Buildings’, free on our online ToolBox, supporting our 2023 Swansea School programme on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’.
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IHBC’s Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE (21/06, 4.30PM; free & open to all) includes insurance (MFL) trees (Woodland Trust), communities (Civic Voice), sustainability, practice, research drawings and much more, all for #IHBCSwansea2023
More detail on the IHBC’s Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE Zoom Breakout sessions on 21 June is available – where anyone registered can meet, network, ask and learn about a huge range of heritage-linked topics, live and online, supporting #IHBCSwansea2023.
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IHBC ‘Research’ Signpost: Power to Change…Community Improvement Districts Pilot update – ‘What we’ve learnt so far’
The pilot programme for Community Improvement Districts (CIDs) has emerged from a continuing need to revitalise traditional high streets and town centres, and Power to Change reports on the research to date.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Snowdonia’s hidden ‘little Italy’ reveals more replica buildings and structures
Snowdonia’s hidden ‘little Italy’ – a small woodland known as the ‘Little Italy’ of southern Eryri (Snowdonia) – has revealed more of its astonishing secrets with ‘Scores more replica buildings and structures… discovered as the overgrown site is cleared’. image: … Continue reading
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Time too tight to catch up on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ at #IHBCSwansea2023 on June 23: Simply book your virtual Day School place from £30+VAT and review the record after!
On 23 June the IHBC hosts a targeted examination into ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, with current thinking from lead practitioners, funders, researchers & bodies across the UK, so if you are too busy to even drop in live … Continue reading
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UPDATE on IHBC’s Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE sessions (21/06, from 4.30PM; free & open to all) with HE, HES, Woodland Trust, Civic Voice & more (including Canada) and supporting #IHBCSwansea2023 on ‘Climate Change & the HE’
The IHBC has updated details for our Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE Zoom Breakout Rooms topics and hosts, for 21 June, where anyone registered can meet, network, ask and learn about a huge range of heritage-linked topics, live and online, supporting #IHBCSwansea2023.
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REMINDER: IHBC launches #IHBCPetitionforCharter consultation web hub & resource: Peruse, pass on and promote
The IHBC has launched its consultation web hub & resource offering context, updates and more on the prospect of an IHBC Petition for Charter – #IHBCPetitionforCharter – to help engagement on the issues around the IHBC seeking a Royal Charter … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost to Scotland’s Engine Shed: Myth-busting blog raising energy efficiency awareness and standards for traditional buildings
The drive to net-zero and the need to reduce carbon emissions has led to the creation of a wide range of energy efficiency standards about the energy performance of buildings, including traditionally constructed buildings, this blog from Historic Environment Scotland’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: DB features IHBC’s NW Branch Conference report which asks on climate change & heritage adaptation, ‘Not if, but how?
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 North West Branch Conference report … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep: Falling masonry from Thurso old bank building shuts A9
A number of roads were cordoned off by police in Thurso after a large section of masonry fell off a building, reports The Herald Scotland. image: Highland Council
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UPDATE on IHBC’s Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE sessions (21/06, from 4.30pm) FREE & OPEN TO ALL with HE, HES, Woodland Trust, Civic Voice & more (including Canada) and supporting #IHBCSwansea2023 on ‘Climate Change & the Historic Environment’
The IHBC has updated details for our Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE Zoom Breakout Rooms topics and hosts, for 21 June, where anyone registered can meet, network, ask and learn about a huge range of heritage-linked topics, live and online, supporting #IHBCSwansea2023.
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Time too tight to catch up on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ at #IHBCSwansea2023 on June 23: Simply book your virtual Day School place from £30+VAT and review the record after!
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IHBC welcomes Civic Voice as first Media Network Partner for Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE (21/06, from 4.30) FREE & OPEN TO ALL, supporting #IHBCSwansea2023
IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly has warmly welcomed England’s Civic Voice as Media Network Partner for the virtual Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE, on 21 June from 4.30PM, free & open to all and supporting IHBC’s 2023 School. on Climate Change and the Historic … Continue reading
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Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, for opportunities across diverse disciplines, specialisms and levels: Cadw, councils, practices, trusts (Canal & River to Stirling, Churches & Landmark) and more
To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique … Continue reading
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IHBC Practice Signpost: Developer bids to overturn decision to grant Port Dundas sawmill listed status
The developer behind plans to demolish a Victorian industrial building in Glasgow to deliver a block of 60 apartments has against a recent decision to give it listed status. image: for illustration – HES
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £200K costed works: Council seeks field work, closing 03/07
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick for this week features a Council’s call for archaeological field work, … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Farnham) doorstep’: Can you help a local paper open the pages on 130 years of history?
The Farnham Herald’s ‘Herald Digital Archive Project’ is seeking a new volunteer to help share more than 130 years of local history immortalised in the pages of the Herald with a wider audience.
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IHBC welcomes ministerial opening of National Trust’s new Heritage and Rural Skills Centre, Coleshill
IHBC’s Education Secretary Chris Wood has welcomed the formal opening of The National Trust’s new Heritage and Rural Skills Centre by Lord Parkinson, England\s Minister of State for the Arts and Heritage, on 19 May.
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Time too tight to catch up on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ at #IHBCSwansea2023 on June 23: Simply book your virtual Day School place from £30+VAT and review the record after!
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