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- Check out IHBC’s new-style ‘CPD Circular’ & feed back: With ‘at-a-glance colour coding’, Director’s CPD Spotlight (ICOMOS-CIF 2026, Granada, 11-13/03), simpler format & more 09/01/2026
- IHBC celebrates SAHGB 2025 Annual Awards, including SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award success at HESPR member Donald Insall Associates 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 30-31 Jan 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 09/01/2026
- Designing Building enhances access to 20K+ articles, for all users as graphic links to ‘Construction Knowledge Hubs’ now aid navigation 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s Research Signpost: Heritage Open Days Festival Impact Review 2025 09/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Private Eye) doorstep’: Nooks & Corners on the ‘nation’s worsening shortage of heritage skills’ 09/01/2026
- Architectural Heritage Fund publishes Annual Review 2024/25 09/01/2026
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 09/01/2026
- CITB announces changes to funding and grants 09/01/2026
- Scottish Government scheme launched: Finding new owners for empty homes 09/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: CyArk’s Heritage Amplified Grant (Engaging New Audiences …) and Heritage Documentation Training Grant (Empowering Cultural Preservation) to 23/01 & 30/01 09/01/2026
- IHBC welcomes award of OBE to IHBC Chair David McDonald: An ‘extraordinary’ person… 02/01/2026
- IHBC Chair updates on 2026 AGM, calls for proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & booking – 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO Claudia Kenyatta CBE, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 02/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 02/01/2026
- REMINDER: Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 02/01/2026
- 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 02/01/2026
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 02/01/2026
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary conservation practice standards deliver public benefit 02/01/2026
- Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 30/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes latest engineers’ CARE guidance for assessing proposed heritage demolition/partial demolition in UK & Ireland 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 30/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with ‘A carbon case for indigenous slate’ 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: Scotland’s APRS – Full Report on ‘Battery Energy Storage Systems and Planning’ 30/12/2025
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IHBC’s ‘Policy’-led research’ Signpost: DCMS Indicator Datasets ‘offering insight into the historic environment’
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) publishes Indicator Data: Each year, Heritage Counts collates datasets about a range of indicators that provide useful insights into the state of the historic environment.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: GCR on ‘Moving a 713-tonne church…!’
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 the Global Construction Review (GCR) on ‘Moving a 713-tonne church … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (farmer’s) doorstep’: Northern Ireland farmer fined for damage to 1,000-year-old monument
A farmer in Co Antrim has been fined £2,000 for unauthorised works to a scheduled monument which has existed for more than 1,000 years.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (ecclesiastical) doorstep’: HE’s Grant to rescue historic Thundridge Church
image for illustration: Steve Bayley / Thundridge Old Church Tower, Commons Wiki Historic England has awarded £72,533 in grant funding, which, together with match funding from Thundridge Old Church Action Group (TOCAG) and the Diocese of St Albans, will enable essential works … Continue reading
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Railway stations and legislative buildings among 13 sites up for registration on the Isle of Man, with consultation too
Thirteen Isle of Man landmarks — including former Victorian railway stations and the buildings where Manx laws are made — are being considered for special protection.
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DBW’s Procurement in construction: Knowledge hub
Designing Buildings Wiki(DBW) publishes the ‘Procurement in construction: Knowledge hub’.
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Localis Thinktank: Local government reorganisation could result in the loss of nine-in-10 councillors, threatening local democracy
In an essay titled Reorganisation, local government and the future of English Devolution, Localis argues that the establishment of unitary authorities in two-tier areas covering half-a-million residents could see councillor numbers drop from roughly 12,000 to 1,200.
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Lack of succession planning spells potential ‘crisis’ for small charities, consultancy warns
A lack of succession planning could leave smaller charities facing a ‘crisis’ as senior leaders step down amid today’s highly pressurised operating environment, a consultancy has warned.
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Towns Fund evaluation: interim findings 2 – executive summary
Frontier Economics and BMG Research were commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to undertake an evaluation of the Towns Fund. This report sets out emerging, indicative process and impact findings from the first 7 case … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Vacant Dutch church to become swimming pool – Holy Water
Dutch companies MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have been selected to design a renovation of the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, south east Netherlands, into a public swimming pool called ‘Holy Water’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the ‘new-build’ doorstep’: ‘No shops, no schools’ – homes in England built without basic amenities…
image for illustration Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors, reports The Guardian.
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DCMS issues ‘Invitation to nominate’ for recognition in the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours, with Information Sessions and Nomination Form
A letter from Susannah Storey, DCMS Permanent Secretary, invites nominations for the ‘BD26’ Honours List.
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RTPI warns Housing Minister of major threat to planning profession from apprenticeship restrictions
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has written to Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook MP to warn that new age restrictions on Level 7 apprenticeship funding will severely damage the pipeline of qualified planners.
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Council to discuss draft Castle Point Local Plan ruling out releasing any green belt land
Castle Point Borough Council in Essex has published a draft local plan that rules out releasing any green belt land, despite proposing to meet only 53% of the government’s housing target.
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New report from the National Retrofit Hub offers recommendations to strengthen energy efficiency standards
image for illustration New report from the National Retrofit Hub offers recommendations intended to strengthen energy efficiency standards to protect private renters.
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Scottish NPA steps up enforcement on unauthorised small plot development
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority (NPA) is urging caution and escalating enforcement action as the concerning trend of the marketing of small plots with the misleading potential for a range of uses continues in the National Park.
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Parliamentary Committee call for permanent VAT Relief for LPOW
Culture Media and Sport Committee calls for permanent VAT Relief for Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme(LPOW).
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CCT: Solitary St Nicholas’ Church, Uphill, Somerset vandalised in shocking incident
The Churches Conservation Trust reports that the historic Norman church of St Nicholas’ in Uphill, Somerset, has become the latest victim of vandalism, leaving the local community both saddened and outraged.
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Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change… survey by the ESPON GILL project. We want to learn from you! Submit your local greening plan
The ESPON GILL project collects examples of planning documents by local authorities relevant to Green Infrastructures (GI)… so submit your local greening plan as an exemplary case for local authorities.
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Chief Planner of England’s Newsletter, July 2025 issued
The Chief Planner’s Newsletter for July 2025 published giving updates on the latest announcements from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and other government departments and agencies relating to planning policy and practice.
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Rayne Trust Open Call for Expressions of Interest: ‘…for greater investment in community spaces for the long term’
Where People Meet Grant Programme is an Open Call for Expressions of Interest from the Rayne Trust, to ‘support spaces that enable people in their communities to lead connected, healthy lives.
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Latest Victorian Society Newsletter now out
The latest Victorian Society Newsletter has been published, offering news on endangered buildings and seeking support in protecting wonderful Victorian buildings, including Top Ten Endangered Buildings in the news.
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New era for Somerset students and communities as UCS College Group launches
A fresh chapter in education has begun across Somerset this August, as Bridgwater & Taunton College (BTC) and Strode College officially unite to form University Centre Somerset College Group (UCS College Group).
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New APPG for World heritage – At-risk globally important places championed by new parliamentary group
Endangered historic, culturally significant and nature-rich places around the world have a new voice in a cross-party parliamentary group: The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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New Civil Engineer: Report urges re-think on ageing transport assets’ ‘growing risk of failure’ with futureproof solutions
A new report, produced by New Civil Engineer (NCE) in partnership with Arup, is urging the infrastructure sector to re-think how ageing assets schemes should be planned, designed and delivered.
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