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- IHBC welcome SAHGB’s new Colvin Special Award 2025, celebrating editors of The Pevsner Architectural Guides 16/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 16/12/2025
- IHBC updates on ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’: Check out our web hub, with video & feedback, and help reduce damage to both health and heritage 16/12/2025
- IHBC warmly welcomes PCO approval to Petition for Charter 16/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: How to get started in sharing knowledge and expertise on Designing Buildings 16/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Hotspur Press will rise from the ashes as developers issue promise for fire-ravaged mill 16/12/2025
- Videogame to help protect Nottingham Cathedral and other heritage buildings: ‘Pugin’s Revival’ despite ‘structural ‘monsters’’ 16/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse Spotlight: Operational use of Artificial Intelligence 16/12/2025
- Public appointment: Members appointed to Historic Environment Scotland 16/12/2025
- HHBT to continue its work in the Highlands as part of SHBT 16/12/2025
- RIBA responds to Environmental Audit Committee report on sustainable housing growth 16/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’– WMF & EH receive grant for next phase of Coastal Connections Programme 16/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice to all IHBC Members for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 13/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes Vice President Torsten Haak as Guest Judge for 2025 Student Award: Selecting next ‘Gus Astley’ winner, to receive £500 + Newcastle School place, 18-20 June 2026 13/12/2025
- IHBC Toolbox’s latest Guidance Note update now out: ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC Signpost: DB the Construction Wiki Temporary Structures 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt 13/12/2025
- Government launches call for submissions to UK’s first national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – ‘living Heritage – open to 27/03 13/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse: Spotlight on Heritage Crime 13/12/2025
- UK State of the Trades: a Report on the current UK Trade Landscape 13/12/2025
- RIBA Business Benchmarking Report 2025 issued 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep 2: ‘Europa?Nostra on new Culture Compass for Europe – ‘When Culture wins, Europe wins’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: Accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Morwenna Slade IHBC on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 09/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 09/12/2025
Daily Archives: 24/05/2013
Another HESPR success! Paul Butler Associates at Accrington
Hyndburn Borough Council has received initial support for a £1.5m Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) bid from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Accrington Town Centre and Pals Centenary project, a bid put together by Paul Butler Associates, a HESPR company … Continue reading
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Let IHBC’s HESPR businesses know about those ‘tender’ moments: for free
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly has reminded IHBC’s members, colleagues and service partners that tendering and other business opportunities can be circulated free to specialist bodies on the IHBC’s business listing service, HESPR: ‘Just email HESPR@ihbc.co.uk and the IHBC will alert … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Awards etc’ web resource now ‘likeable’ AND ‘searchable’!
The IHBC’s free web page listing of non-commercial ‘Awards, placements, bursaries and scholarships’ opportunities has been re-cast to make it more mobile friendly and accessible, and its updates can be ‘liked’ across a range of digital social networks and ‘searched’ … Continue reading
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IHBC Member benefits @£100: ‘Growth’ Planning Convention reduction to IHBC
Places at the 2013 Planning Convention, the RTPI’s annual flagship event that this year explores ‘Planning for Growth’, are on offer to IHBC members at £100 discounts! The RTPI writes of the Convention: The RTPI’s annual flagship event is the … Continue reading
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IHBC supports NE HEF’s ‘History in 100 Places’
The IHBC is delighted to partner in supporting an initiative by the North East (NE) Historic Environment Forum (HEF) to create a virtual gallery that celebrates North East achievements as told by local places. The NE HEF writes: The North … Continue reading
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England’s Planning guidance reforms confirmed
Planning minister Nick Boles has confirmed in Parliament that the Government will press ahead with changes to the suite of technical planning guidance in line with the recommendations of the review carried out by Lord Taylor and published in the … Continue reading
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EH seeks new Chair: £40k @ up to 2 days/wk
The post of Chair of English Heritage (EH), to succeed the estimable Baroness Kay Andrews, has been advertised with a closing date of 10 June and a salary of £40,000 for up to two days per week. DCMS writes: As … Continue reading
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LB setting & CA housing turned down on heritage asset impact
The construction of 58 houses in the grounds of a grade II* listed building (LB), a manor house, in a Warwickshire conservation area (CA) has been refused after a ruling that the adverse impact on heritage assets outweighs the scheme’s … Continue reading
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Welsh government opens voluntary sector consultation
How the Welsh Government and the Third Sector work together in the future is the focus of a new consultation launched by the Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister Huw Lewis. Earlier this year, the Welsh government announced it was reviewing … Continue reading
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Planner shortage delays development
The Planning Officers Society has acknowledged claim by architects that a shortage of suitably qualified planners was a major factor in delays to development projects. A spokesperson for the organisation highlighted a ‘generation gap’ of experienced planners caused by a … Continue reading
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Canal and River Trust challenges students to design a collection box
The Canal and River Trust has challenged product design students from Central St Martins university in London to create a collection box ‘fit for the 21st century’ for the charity. A panel including a judge from the Institute of Fundraising, … Continue reading
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ICON reports on the state of the UK’s conservators
The Institute of Conservation (ICON) has released a report on the labour market for conservators: ‘Conservation Labour Market Intelligence 2012-13’. ICON writes: Produced with support from Arts Council England, English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the report is a … Continue reading
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New NCVO analysis shows level of cuts to come for charities
Public funding for charities could be 12% lower by 2017/18, according to new analysis from NCVO as the new forecast suggests public funding for the sector could be £1.7bn lower in 2017/18 than it was in 2010/11, the latest year … Continue reading
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RIBA to grant funding for education worth £250,000 in 2013
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced funding research and scholarship schemes for students worth a record £250,000 in 2013/14, while £100,000 of the funds will go towards financing scholars embarking on vital educational research into architecture. RIBA … Continue reading
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