Daily Archives: 26/03/2011

Key partners, including IHBC, are supporting a joint Local Government Association (LGA) & English Heritage initiative to provide project-based support, study and advice, including promotion of successful new organisational strategies, to local authorities currently undergoing change, with a closing date … Continue reading →

The government has published its budget which is based on two strategies, of growth (summarised in its BIS department paper, Plan for Growth), and of fairness (apparently with no corresponding paper); responses are varied, as Heritage Alliance, the link body … Continue reading →

Environmental Protection UK (EPUK) is questioning whether the Government is committed to a planning system that is in the public interest, including  being socially and environmentally sustainable, saying that: ‘Far from being costly ‘red tape’, good planning implemented at a local … Continue reading →

Historic Scotland has launched a public consultation on four draft Statutory Instruments which have been prepared under certain delegated powers in the Historic Environment (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2011. The full consultation pack is available for download from the web link … Continue reading →

A new journal on cultural heritage management and sustainable development is providing free on-line access until 30 April as a ‘taster’.   The publishers report: The Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (JCHMSD) stimulates and encourages research devoted to … Continue reading →

Civic Voice’s  Planning Panel of volunteers supporting and advising its staff on the development of its views is now chaired by Dave Chetwyn, former Head of Planning Aid England, IHBC past Chair, and currently Urban Vision North Staffordshire chair and a … Continue reading →

Sir Basil Spence (1907-1976) was commemorated  on 23 March 2011 with an English Heritage blue plaque at his former home and office at 1 Canonbury Place, Islington, N1.   A successful and eclectic modern architect, with a prodigious capacity for work, … Continue reading →

Astrium GEO-Information Services has introduced new marine and coastal geospatial data that is now downloadable from its Geostore website (www.geostore.com).   The new data is claimed to be particularly useful for environmental protection activities and coastal projects like wind farm … Continue reading →

The National Housing Federation (NHF) has welcomed the publication of a Select Committee report into the Government’s ‘botched’ reforms of the planning system. The all party Commons Communities and Local Government Committee has published its report after its Inquiry and has … Continue reading →