Daily Archives: 08/03/2013

Booking is now open for the major event in the year for the conservation professional, with the launch of the website for the IHBC’s 2013 Annual School, an event that will confront one of the biggest challenges for conservation today: … Continue reading →

The Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies (JCNAS), of which the IHBC is a partner, has launched a free public information service that brings together for the first time the expertise offered by heritage organisations to offer support on … Continue reading →

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has issued a report revealing that just over half of English councils are not prepared for the Government’s planning reforms under way though the National planning Policy Framework (NPPF), with potentially damaging consequences … Continue reading →

Eleven places from across the country have put their names forward to become the UK City of Culture in 2017. They are, Aberdeen, Chester, Dundee, East Kent (covering Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Thanet), Hastings and Bexhill on Sea, Hull, … Continue reading →

The JPICH (Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change) has launched its first Joint Pilot Transnational Call for Proposals, aimed at funding projects in Cultural Heritage with topics covering areas such as materials and decay, use and re-use … Continue reading →

The National Trust (NT) has lost its legal challenge over the development of a £100m golf resort and hotel near the Giant’s Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The project was approved by environment minister Alex Attwood last year. High … Continue reading →

England’s Planning Advisory Service has prepared a short ‘crib sheet’ that acts as a starter for ten on the duty to co-operate and strategic planning. PAS Article: LINK

DCLG has decided not to call in the Peel Holdings proposals for the ambitious £5.5bn redevelopment of an area of redundant Liverpool docklands. The scheme is known as Liverpool Waters and is earmarked for what was once known as the … Continue reading →

The current Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) website was launched in 2009 and HLF are now in the early stages of planning a redevelopment of the site and so are seeking feedback. HLF writes We’ve put together a short survey to … Continue reading →

Bat conservation is damaging churches not just physically but financially and cannot be sustained, Environment Minister Richard Benyon MP has been told. The cost of replacing one small piece of a leaded window, for example, increased from £5 using plain … Continue reading →

The Home Builders Federation (HBF) has added two new planners to its planning team in a bid to make sure that the industry is represented at future local plan examinations. The trade body claimed this move – funded by its … Continue reading →

Applications are invited for grants under the Cultural Value Project of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) with a closing date of 16 April 2013. Research types anticipated include: · approaches to cultural value and to its different components; … Continue reading →

Two old school friends who burned down a disused church have each been jailed for three-and-a-half years. Michael John Lill and Jason Sulley, both 23, torched the hospital church of St Faith’s in Pinderfields Park last June. The Grade II … Continue reading →