Monthly Archives: May 2010

Entries for the European Landscape Convention (ELC) Council of Europe Landscape Award must be received by 27 August and the winner will be announced on 8 November. The European Landscape Convention (ELC) is dedicated to the protection, management and planning … Continue reading →

The Victorian Society has announced the appointment of a new Conservation Adviser with special responsibility for historic places of worship, Edmund Harris. Edmund, who comes from SAVE Britain’s Heritage, will be responsible for all ecclesiastical casework across England and Wales. … Continue reading →

The scholarship deadline for the Sustainable Heritage MSc at UCL is 26 May. The scholarships, supported by Ecclesiastical Insurance, are for the academic year 2010/11 and are for £15,000. The one year MSc in Sustainable Heritage is an innovative, inter-disciplinary … Continue reading →

ECOTEC Research & Consulting has been commissioned to undertake research to understand the value of investments into skills and training, closing date 17 May. For the survey of employers (15 mins) see LINK For the survey of individuals (10 mins) … Continue reading →

Culture and External Affairs Minister Fiona Hyslop has introduced the Historic Environment Amendment Bill (Scotland) 2010 to parliament. The Bill, published on Wednesday, will amend provisions in the existing Listed Building and Conservation Areas (Scotland) Act 1997, the Ancient Monuments … Continue reading →

IHBC Full Member, Jim MacDonald, Deputy Chief Inspector, Historic Scotland, has been appointed Chief Executive of Architecture + Design Scotland (A+DS). Mr MacDonald (44) is a  Graduate of Edinburgh University and UCL, London. He is a MPhil in Town Planning … Continue reading →

Two Scottish charities, the Scottish Campaign for National Parks (SCNP) and The Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (APRS), have recently started a project to promote a strategy for developing a comprehensive network of National Parks across Scotland. SCNP … Continue reading →

Planningblog reports as follows: ‘Living in a country where the complaint is often that too little land is given to housing, it comes as a surprise that Ireland has massively over-zoned land for new homes.’ An investigation by the Irish … Continue reading →

The Royal Town Planning Institute has strongly criticised the news first released to the media, that the Northern Ireland Planning Service is to redeploy as many as one in three of its employees – 269 staff. RTPI says this will … Continue reading →

The editors of ‘Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture’,  Anne Massey (Kingston University) and John Turpin (Washington State University) invite contributions to the journal’s 2011 special issue ‘Living in the Past: Histories, Heritage and the Interior’. This issue will examine the theme … Continue reading →

The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) has posted its disciplinary procedure on-line. Seán O’Reilly, IHBC director, said: “The IHBC has had a disciplinary procedure in place since 2003, when it went to our ruling Council.  However as we’d not … Continue reading →

Two-year work placement on fixed-term contract Nationwide Salary from £18,000 pa to £23,000 pa depending on experience, skills and location. The English Heritage Historic Environment Traineeship (HET) Scheme is a highly sought after initiative which offers up to ten two-year … Continue reading →

The Heritage Alliance has reviewed the three main political parties’ manifestos to see what commitments are being made regarding our members’ interests. Although macro economic factors loom large throughout, this analysis, using key words to search the PDF versions,  identifies … Continue reading →

The Royal Town Planning Institute, the professional body that represents 22,000 town and country planners, has launched its Planning: Shaping the Future manifesto. The document argues that planning is one of the essential mechanisms through which many of the next … Continue reading →

The new Act improves the process to allow communities a greater say in how their proposed changes can happen. Under existing legislation, people are able to propose changes to Government policies or national laws which they feel would help their … Continue reading →

A London woman who built an extension without planning permission will have to demolish it because it “appears visually intrusive and overbearing and harms the character and appearance of the existing dwelling and surrounding area”, after a High Court ruling. … Continue reading →

London-based practice Ungar Architects has won planning permission for a 290sq m four-bedroom family house to replace an 1860s cottage in Mill Hill, north-west London “It has been built on to, and every new bit was worse than what was … Continue reading →