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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: 07/06/2013
IHBC’s 2013 School update: Day School and non-residential places still open, & sponsor opportunities, but Residential School & joint NHTG Heritage Skills Fair closed!
The IHBC’s Annual School is now widely regarded as the crucial moment in the calendar of any serious conservation specialist, especially as bursaries mean that it’s more accessible than ever, but current popularity means that the 2013 Residential School and … Continue reading
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‘Streamlining’ England’s planning, including design & access
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has published its response to its consultation on a package of measures to simplify and streamline the application process in England. The response confirmed the administration would introduce proposed reforms to the … Continue reading
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Amendments to ‘design & access’ for England’s designated heritage
As part of a wider ‘streamlining’ strategy, a new amendment to heritage legislation removes the requirement for design and access statements to explain the principles and concepts that have been applied to the scale, layout, and appearance of the works … Continue reading
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DCMS’ Farrell review: Call for evidence, due 19 July
Sir Terry Farrell’s independent review of Architecture and the Built Environment, established by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), has published a call for evidence to seek out views on its four key themes, including ‘cultural heritage and … Continue reading
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Energy secretary Ed Davey has set out position on EU 2030 framework
As earlier this year, the European Commission adopted a green paper on ‘A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies’, setting the scene for debate and negotiation, Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has made the government’s position clear. … Continue reading
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Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary on ‘independent culture’
Delivering the annual David Talbot Rice Memorial Lecture at the University of Edinburgh Scotland’s Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said that ‘the UK Government is wrong to measure the value of culture simply in economic terms’, as she set out the … Continue reading
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Specialist planning judges could speed judicial reviews
Specialist judges should be deployed to prevent planning-related judicial reviews from moving slowly through the courts, a seminar heard recently. Search Planning Resource: LINK
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EH’s NHPP progress report out
The ‘Progress report’ of the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP) has been released by English Heritage. Edward Impey of English Heritage writes: I am very pleased to announce that the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP) annual Progress Report for 2012-2013 … Continue reading
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CoE’s ‘ChurchCare Impact Review 2013’ now out
ChurchCare, the Church of England’s national resource supporting the people in parishes, dioceses and cathedrals, who care for our 16,000 church buildings and 42 cathedrals has released the latest in its series of reviews aimed at those seeking to maintain … Continue reading
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Inspector backs Cotswolds homes despite AONB harm
A planning inspector has approved outline plans for 120 homes in the Cotswolds despite the likelihood of ‘significant harm’ to the setting of an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB). Search Planning Resource: LINK
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Brick Awards 2013 Deadline: 14 June
Now in its 37th year the 2013 Brick Awards, from the Brick Development Association (BDA), is one of the most widely respected design awards in the UK, recognising excellence in design, aesthetics and construction using brick, are open with a … Continue reading
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