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- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost from Sheehan Quirke via Open Culture: ‘How did the world get so ugly?’ 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (duplicate) doorstep’: Plans for first Iron Age broch ‘in 2000 years’ approved for Highlands 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep’: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF 25/11/2025
- ‘Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ – with ‘nature as essential to sustaining growth and a healthy society’ 25/11/2025
- HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc. 25/11/2025
- Government’s Pride in Place: Strategy update 25/11/2025
- Winners of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards announced! 25/11/2025
- Joining the dots: A single EDI portal for the sector 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 21/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 21/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost from the NT: Public First report on ‘Local history, local heritage and local pride, in Coventry and across the UK’ 21/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plans to turn three local villages into town to ‘help protect green belt’ backed by residents 21/11/2025
- Parliamentary Committee: Nature not a ‘blocker’ to housing; needed for ‘resilient towns & neighbourhoods’, and calls for housebuilding target changes and reduced VAT (for retrofitting) 21/11/2025
- Housebuilding around train stations will be given default ‘yes’, including in Green Belt, as: ‘Builders Speechless’ 21/11/2025
- RTPI’s State of the Profession 2025 reports across UK: One in five planners expected to leave the profession within three years, with no clear plan to replace them 21/11/2025
- TCPA Blog: Review of Homes England’s Healthy Homes Standard: Our homes are not islands 21/11/2025
- Public Practice: Recruitment & Skills Report 2025 21/11/2025
- NCT’s National Churches Survey – giving every church a voice 21/11/2025
- New APPG for National Parks and National Landscapes launched 21/11/2025
- Heritage Alliance awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant for Resilience Project 21/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: WMF welcomes Belfast City Council’s decision to purchase Assembly Rooms 21/11/2025
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 18/11/2025
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Three new Commissioners appointed to HE Board
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Ulrike Knox, Jamie Ritblat and Philip Shepherd as Commissioners to the Historic England (HE) board.
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Interim Chief Construction Adviser appointed, to ‘… provide expert, independent advice to… government on building safety and regulatory reform’
A new interim Chief Construction Adviser has been appointed by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
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Cultural Enterprises Awards 2026 launched: ‘celebrating success and creativity in cultural income generation’
The Association for Cultural Enterprises has launched the Cultural Enterprises Awards 2026 celebrating success and creativity in cultural income generation.
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7 New Sites Listed by DCMS to Celebrate 200 Years of the Railway
image for illustration: Opening of Stockton & Darlington Railway painting by John Dobbin – Wikimedia Commons Five heritage railway stations, alongside 2 other railway sites, have been listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) … Continue reading
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BEFS 2026 Manifesto: Building Foundations for a Better Scotland
BEFS has launched a new Manifesto, Building Foundations for a Better Scotland, in advance of the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections.
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RIBA puts high-quality design on Parliament’s agenda
As the Planning and Infrastructure Bill makes its way through Parliament, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) reports that it has secured an amendment to ensure design quality is at the heart of new development.
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Pathway to Planning – Cohort 4 open to 6/01: … fast track career in the built environment as LG planner or surveyor, from £25K pa
Pathways to Planning is a graduate programme intended to attract a diverse group of individuals to fast track their career in the built environment as a local government (LG) planner or surveyor, with applications open to 6 January 2026.
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Expert Taskforce recommends locations for new towns
The New Towns Taskforce has recommended locations for the next generation of new towns.
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Tagged building, climate change, community, construction, environment, expertise, government, housing, nature, planning, towns
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TCPA seeks support in Campaign for Healthy Homes: Joining health and PD rights advocacy in Planning Bill changes
The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) is calling for support in its campaign ‘to secure the healthy homes and neighbourhoods that our country so desperately needs’, linking health and PD amendments to the Planning etc Bill.
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Licensing builders must happen following ECO debacle, says FMB
The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has warned that poor oversight in ECO scheme shows urgent need for builder licensing to protect consumers and restore trust in retrofit work.
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Honouring the legacy of the Sycamore Gap tree: a new creative commission
Two years after the illegal felling of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree, the National Trust is launching a major creative commission to mark its legacy and inspire a renewed connection with nature.
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Built Environment Committee responds to New Towns Taskforce Report
House of Lords Built Environment Committee has responded to New Towns Taskforce Report and the Government’s response.
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£10Mn+ Water company fines fund local restoration projects
Over £10 million in water company fines directed to restore local waterways through 51 projects aimed at cleaning up rivers, lakes and seas.
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Elle Cass next Chair Royal Town Planning Institute Board
Elle Cass has been announced as the next Chair of the Board of Trustees at the RTPI.
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National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme
A new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) sets out the reasons for failures in the government’s energy efficiency scheme for homes, including poor-quality installations, weak government oversight and inadequate audit and monitoring.
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Tagged building, energy, expertise, government, homes, insulation, net zero
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New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story
The contributions of towns across the UK to our national life will be celebrated through a new competition, the Culture Secretary has announced.
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Tagged community, competition, culture, education, environment, planning, towns, training, urban, volunteering
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THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10
The Heritage Alliance (THA) is calling for Case Studies to feature in our digital programme for Heritage Debate 2025, with submissions due by Friday 24 October.
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New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published
Government UK has issued the ‘Independent report: New Towns Taskforce: Report to government’.
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Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Local communities will be handed new powers to revitalise their high streets and restore pride in their towns, reports Government UK.
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Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme
Government has launched its response to the Report of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee of the House of Commons, with a £13.2bn programme.
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HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector
The Historic Houses (HH) report, ‘Historic houses: the heart of Scotland’s rural tourism’ has found that legislative uncertainty, complex regulation and mounting fiscal pressures are threatening the future of rural tourism businesses in Scotland.
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People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11
Funding available to support regional museums and galleries to ensure collections are more accessible to the public, open to applications to 14 November.
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THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October
The Heritage Alliance (THA) is planning to publish a report exploring how the heritage sector is helping to create vibrant, creative, thriving, and sustainable places for people to live, work, and enjoy, to feed into their upcoming Heritage Debate 2025.
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BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025)
‘Wellbeing in Buildings’, a Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) Topic Guide by Sorcha Redmond, has been issued.
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‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos
Political think tank DEMOS has published ‘A room with a view: remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog by Lucy Bush, Director of Research and Participation.
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