Daily Archives: 14/01/2011

IHBC member Colin Hatrick was among those to be congratulated for being awarded Honours in the New Year’s list, as he received an MBE for services to heritage in Northern Ireland. The Planning Portal notes: Katrine Sporle, chief executive of … Continue reading →

Birmingham City Council is set to establish a private company to deliver its regeneration services in the city. A meeting of the council’s cabinet will consider a report outlining proposals for the spin-off firm. Initially, the holding company will deliver … Continue reading →

Fury over the scrapping of the RIBA Trust looks set to force Portland Place to hold a special general meeting for the first time in more than a decade. Following the unceremonious abolition of the trust at the end of … Continue reading →

CLG has issued a prospectus inviting applications, by 21 February 2011, from eligible organisations for grant funding under the Department’s Supporting Communities and Neighbourhoods in Planning scheme. The document describes the grant programme, including the purpose, selection and eligibility criteria. It … Continue reading →

Ruth Parsons, Chief Executive of Historic Scotland (HS), announced in November, at the joint IHBC, APT, GCHT ‘Investing in the Past’ conference in Glasgow that The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is to run a new Buildings At Risk (BAR) Initiative … Continue reading →

Civic Voice, the national charity for the civic movement in England this week polled the public on which policy is most important for inclusion in the new National Planning Policy Framework, currently under production by the Government The poll, carried … Continue reading →

A couple has been fined for failing to maintain a Grade II listed building in Redbourn. St Albans District Council had issued a notice under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ordering Susan and Michael Gentil to remedy the … Continue reading →

Communities minister Andrew Stunell has committed the Government to a programme of work to improve the system of building regulation in England. In a Parliamentary statement Stunell reaffirmed that that Building Regulations relating to the conservation of fuel and power … Continue reading →