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- Check out IHBC’s next new-style ‘CPD Circular’ & feedback: ‘At-a-glance colour coding’, simpler format, Awards, Director’s CPD Spotlights, & more 10/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 10/02/2026
- 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! 10/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 10/02/2026
- IHBC ‘Management’ Signpost: Turley on ‘Grey Belt – What have we learned’ 10/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: New air source heat pump case studies from Historic England 10/02/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: DB on COTAC’s Insight 4 – ‘Understanding and Appreciating the Region of East Anglia’ 10/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Inclusive Farm Scotland welcomes first students to 22-acre working farm on Royal Deeside 10/02/2026
- Georgian Group launches High Court challenge over Clandon Park decision 10/02/2026
- First ever UK Town of Culture competition to restore pride in communities – to 31/03 10/02/2026
- RICS Scotland Manifesto 2026 – Surveying Scotland: ‘ambitions… not be achievable without urgent action on skills & workforce’ 10/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 06/02/2026
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary Conservation Professionals & employers see public & personal benefits 06/02/2026
- 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! 06/02/2026
- IHBC opens Corporate Plan 2026-30 (‘CP30’) development with CP25 consultation, noting Charter, Parliamentary 5 Commitments, volunteer investment & more – to 28/02 & after 06/02/2026
- IHBC urges ‘risk-based approach to retrofit’ with Government’s ‘Warm Homes Plan’ – ‘biggest home upgrade plan in British history’ 06/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 06/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: Reusing Historic Cinemas as Places of Worship 06/02/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £1.3Mn of weekly works: UK cultural body seeks Landscape Architect for works in urban setting, to 17/02/2026, from £750K 06/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Westminster Council launches ‘Retrofit First’ policy & more in City Plan Partial Review 06/02/2026
- AHF announces £46m expansion of the heritage revival fund 06/02/2026
- ARB launches consultation on proposed changes to professional practical experience (PPE) 06/02/2026
- Government calls for submissions to UK’s first national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – ‘living Heritage – open to 27/03 06/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Durham joins UNESCO’s Global Network of Learning Cities – ‘a significant site of scholarship and learning for over a thousand years’ 06/02/2026
- IHBC on LA conservation jobs in England: ‘Market Intelligence’ Research Note from IHBC’s 2025 ‘Jobs etc.’ posts, via our ToolBox 03/02/2026
Daily Archives: 11/01/2011
IHBC: Localism Bill threatens national heritage
The new ‘Localism Bill’ could threaten England’s historic places, the IHBC has highlighted, as current provisions will allow new local planning procedures to override national priorities for the country’s valued places. Jo Evans, Chair of The Institute of Historic Building and … Continue reading
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Civic Voice polls for local priorities
The Civic Voice, the national charity for the civic movement in England, is polling the public on which policy is most important for inclusion in the new planning framework currently under production by the government. The poll, carried on the home … Continue reading
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Wales’ George Pace conference
Cardiff University and partners will host a conference about the architect George Pace on 12 February 2011. The organisers note as follows: George Pace (1915-75) was an architect whose uncompromising Modernism still shocks conservatives while his respect for tradition and use of craftsmanship alienated … Continue reading
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COTAC: More than half a century on
The Conference on Training in Architectural Conservation (COTAC) last year published its aims and objectives 2010-15 in the document Half a Century On. COTAC, which was established in 1959, is a charity devoted to improving the standard of education for everyone involved in … Continue reading
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RICS Commission on neighbourhoods
RICS has established an independent Land and Society Commission to examine how communities can shape their neighbourhoods and would like to hear evidence from those with expertise in the field. RICS has established an independent Commission to examine how communities … Continue reading
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DTA/Bassac merger to create ‘Locality’
The new organisation formed by the merger between community sector umbrella bodies Bassac and the Development Trusts Association (DTA) is to be called Locality and led by Steve Wyler, it has been announced, and it will start operating in April. Regeneration.Net: LINK
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European Year of Volunteering: England Grants
The Cabinet Office has today made available small scale contracts and grants for organisations to develop and implement activity within England, as part of the national work programme for European Year of Volunteering. 2011 has been designated as the European Year of … Continue reading
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