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Daily Archives: 26/01/2011
IHBC Gus Astley Student Award: winners & seminar
The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), the key professional body for built and historic environment conservation specialists, has announced the winners of its Annual Gus Astley Student Award for 2010, the major award of its type for the sector. … Continue reading
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EH: new guidance on asset transfer
New guidance for local authorities and public sector bodies looking to transfer the ownership and management of historic buildings, monuments or landscapes to community-based organisations is now available on the English Heritage website. English Heritage News: LINK
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Heritage campaigners are ‘idiots’: Tory
A local councillor has branded heritage groups fighting to save a row of houses in Birmingham as ‘middle class idiots’, as he claimed the homes needed to be pulled down because they had become a magnet for antisocial behaviour. Bodies … Continue reading
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Scotland’s HE Bill & the IHBC
Scotland’s new Historic Environment Bill has received the support of Parliament, following substantial scrutiny that has been informed by timely research supplied by The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) highlighting threats to local government conservation capacity. The Historic Environment … Continue reading
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WMF Watch nominations sought
Nominations for the 2012 World Monuments Watch close on March 15. Information about the 2012 World Monuments Watch can be found at www.wmf.org/watch Potential nominees are welcome to contact WMF in London or New York if they want to discuss the … Continue reading
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Improving partnerships between charities
Beatbullying chief executive Emma-Jane Cross is setting up a cross-sector working party to devise a code of conduct that will govern how charities should treat each other when embarking on formal or informal collaborations. The venture has support from the … Continue reading
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Celebrities celebrate Stowe skills
The WMF Britain homepage carries a new film on the story and restoration of Stowe House, featuring the generous participation of Kevin McCloud, Dr David Starkey, artist Alexander Creswell, and many plasterers, gilders and masons. www.wmf.org.uk Stowe/Projects: LINK
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Help EFAP give architecture a voice
The European Forum for Architectural Policies (EFAP) is warning of a real risk that architecture will be downgraded to a mere ‘design issue’ as progress is made in preparation of the new EU Urban Agenda. EFAP says that it ’strongly … Continue reading
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City planning in Pickles’ vision
On 19 January Eric Pickles spoke to the Economist’s Liveable Cities Conference in London on his vision for cities, exploring among other things ‘one of the biggest blockades to growth over recent decades has been the planning system. Well, we call … Continue reading
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