Daily Archives: 01/03/2013

The ‘Significance’ issue of Context, membership journal of The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), has been posted online, featuring reviews of the programme from the IHBC’s 2012 Annual School in Winchester. Online access to Context is free to all, … Continue reading →

The European Commission has confirmed it will take the UK to court in an attempt to force the Treasury to impose the full rate of VAT on energy-saving goods, warning that tax breaks will not help deliver the aims of … Continue reading →

Port development companies, marina builders, and smaller companies will benefit from less burdensome enforcement of regulation following a government review of red tape. Responding to industry concerns that lack of co-ordination between regulators imposes unnecessary costs and uncertainty on firms, … Continue reading →

A private house in Wimbledon, with separate studio/housekeeper’s flat, designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Lord Rogers – and his then wife Su – for his parents, has been listed. The decision, on the advice of English Heritage, to list … Continue reading →

An alliance of civic, environmental and transport bodies has launched a campaign urging a so-called ‘smart growth’ approach for new large-scale development. Organisations involved include the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), the Campaign for Better Transport and Civic Voice. … Continue reading →

In response to industry feedback, CSCS has developed three free apps that enable contractors to use the competence card scheme’s smartcards for a range of applications including reading CSCS card details, registering details of attendees at training course and toolbox … Continue reading →

Planners have been invited to submit proposals to find new uses for disused or abandoned spaces in London and Preston. The Forgotten Spaces competition is run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in conjunction with the Mayor of … Continue reading →

Four men have been sentenced for an arson which caused substantial damage to a former grand country house in Somerset, Sandhill Park at Bishops Lydeard Stuart Walter, 23, of Lympsham, Nathan Goldfinch and Marcus Tancock, both 20 and from Weston, … Continue reading →

Renovation plans have been unveiled for the derelict listed Ice Factory building in Grimsby which is on the Victorian Society’s top 10 list of structures most at risk of being lost. A trust was set up two years ago to … Continue reading →

In another successful partnership between Gloucestershire police and English Heritage to combat heritage crime, a man has pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to Grade I listed Greyfriars Church in Gloucester. The surviving Tudor building forms part of the Greyfriars … Continue reading →