Category Archives: IHBC NewsBlog

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’s news features Building on ‘Design changes to Liverpool Street Station following … Continue reading →

Berwickshire is now known worldwide as the home of ‘New Asgard’, but now there’s a bid to bring a little bit of Middle Earth to the region, writes The Southern Reporter. image: for illustration only – by Achromatic – Own … Continue reading →

The IHBC’s ‘Conservation Wiki’, accessible through the our Designing Buildings (DB) partner, targets construction sector users, and the top 20 posts for 2022 range from Hot-mixed mortars, PAS 2035 and building regs to the history of listed buildings.

This NewsBlog kickstarts plans for our new ‘IHBC Research for Practice Digest’ in this anniversary year, #IHBC25, to help connect research and conservation practice, as we seek views, feedback, suggestions and ideas on a first draft for Issue 1.

The prospectus for consultation on revising England’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) as part of Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (LURB) reforms has been published, and closes on 2 March 2023.

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 re-issued call from a National Heritage … Continue reading →

More than 7,400 acres in the Lake District have been designated as one of the first ‘super national nature reserves’ in England: Ennerdale Valley, as reported on by LancsLive. image: By John Gibson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Commons Wikimedia

The IHBC’s NewsBlogs resource and linked free email alert service (sign up HERE) form a central part of the institute’s CPD support, guidance and reference for practicing conservation professionals and their sector networks.

Aberdeen’s Category A-listed ‘Tolbooth’ is to get extensive repairs worth a total of £1.36 million. image for illustration – by Aberdeen City Heritage Trust

Transport secretary Mark Harper will ‘take some time to listen to alternative views’ about how to accomplish the intention behind the government’s proposed reform of the UK’s railways under the new public body Great British Railways (GBR). image: for illustration

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 Advice, closing … Continue reading →

A project to digitise more than 130 years of local history immortalised in the pages of the Herald – and make it free to access for the public online – is set to take off in 2023 after a frenzy … Continue reading →

A new BBC analyis  lets you find out how the High Streets and shopping areas near you have changed since the beginning of the pandemic – by just typing in your postcode. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0

The new issue of the IHBC’s must-read journal, Context No.174, explores just a few key threads in the history of the IHBC in our 25th Anniversary year – #IHBC25 – with extra gems including a local architectural archive that represents … Continue reading →

Terence O’Rourke is the latest company to be accepted on to the IHBC conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ listing, of heritage businesses to benefit from IHBC’s quality assurance.

To mark the IHBC’s 25th anniversary in #IHBC25 our NewsBlog service is looking back – and forward – as we celebrate some of the free ‘jewels’ that help members and colleagues contribute to our charitable objects, with the post this … Continue reading →

In an oral statement in the Senedd Cymru on 29 November, Dawn Bowden MS, Deputy Minister for Arts etc,, announced the launch of a twelve-week public consultation on Public Commemoration in Wales: Guidance for Public Bodies, closing 21 February. image: … Continue reading →

The Architect’s Journal (AJ) has featured the new report from the IHBC-supported cross-party Parliamentary group on Conservation, Places and People which calls for reduced VAT for historic  buildings to encourage appropriate retrofit.

The IHBC has warmly congratulated Laure Emery, Nicholas Uglow, Christian Clarkson and James Legard of the Simpson & Brown Heritage Consultancy Team on winning the second joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award for their research into the history and development of … Continue reading →

The demolition of the Redcar Blast Furnace will bookend a story spanning six decades, Teesside historian Dr Tosh Warwick reports through The Northern Echo. image: for illustration – By Stuart Kerr – Corus Steel Works, RedcarUploaded by Computerjoe, CC BY … Continue reading →

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 the call from a national heritage body … Continue reading →

Scotland faces a ‘monumental but essential task’ if it is to overhaul its aged housing stock and find practical solutions to reduce emissions and address the climate emergency, said Minister Patrick Harvie as he opened the first-ever Green Home Festival … Continue reading →

The Architect’s Journal (AJ) has featured the new report from the IHBC-supported cross-party Parliamentary group on Conservation, Places and People which calls for reduced VAT for historic  buildings to encourage appropriate retrofit.

The IHBC has warmly congratulated Laure Emery, Nicholas Uglow, Christian Clarkson and James Legard of the Simpson & Brown Heritage Consultancy Team on winning the second joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award for their research into the history and development of … Continue reading →

Targeted cuts in the VAT rate on listed building (LB) refurbishments and a presumption against demolition of existing properties are amongst the recommendations in the first report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) heritage group on Conservation, Places and People … Continue reading →