Daily Archives: 27/09/2011

Trefor Thorpe, the former chief architect for the Welsh Government’s historic environment service Cadw, has been elected president of The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), the UK’s professional body for conservation specialists, taking up the post from Eddie Booth … Continue reading →

The IHBC has welcomed the conference on ‘Improving Thermal Performance in Traditional Buildings’, scheduled for 15-16 November in Greenwich and organised by COTAC, the Conference on Training in Architectural Conservation.   IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘This is a great … Continue reading →

Scotland’s Finance Minister John Swinney has announced his ‘Scottish Spending Review 2011 and Draft Budget 2012-13’ as, over the next three years Historic Scotland’s budget will be cut by 30% in real terms   On Culture the report states: ‘The … Continue reading →

Launched in May, the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP) is the national framework bringing together work by English Heritage (EH) and other partners within the sector on historic environment protection and, to kick-start two-way dialogue with the sector, English Heritage … Continue reading →

A robust framework by which the effectiveness of Scottish planning system can be measured should be introduced, a report from the national spending watchdog urges.   The Scottish Government says: Substantial changes were made to Scotland’s planning system through ThePlanning … Continue reading →

A proposal to remove historic buildings from a protected register risks destroying ‘the heritage of local communities’, an archaeologist has said.   Measures proposed by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht would see all structures dating from after … Continue reading →

The UK Association of Preservation Trusts (UK APT) 2011 conference, exploring the ‘Big Society’, will take place at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast on 13-14 October.   UKAPT says: Big Society represents both a major challenge and an opportunity for … Continue reading →

Community First is an £80m government-funded programme that will run for four years, until March 2015, delivered by the Community Development Foundation, to fund (including match-funding) people in deprived areas to give their time and expertise to local projects – … Continue reading →

Last year the Government announced that British Waterways will transfer to a New Waterways Charity (NWC) and the new Charity, whose name will be announced shortly and which will be up and running by April 2012, is now seeking 5 … Continue reading →

Sixteen local groups have been chosen to go forward to the finals of the English Heritage Angel Awards, supported by Andrew Lloyd Webber, in London on 31st October.   English Heritage experts met recently to sift carefully through more than … Continue reading →