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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: 14/06/2013
Last chance to join the IHBC’s 2013 Carlisle ‘School for skills’: 21/06
Opportunities for booking will close early next week so put your name down now for the IHBC’s 2013 conference – the ‘School for skills’ – with its centerpiece the Day School on 21 June, all of which will provide essential … Continue reading
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IHBC’s 2nd research note: planning related applications for judicial review update
The IHBC has launched its second research note, prepared by IHBC member Bob Kindred MBE, which reviews planning related applications for judicial review and which, following previous calls for the review process to be made more costly, concludes that the … Continue reading
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New skills & learning opportunities on IHBC’s ‘Awards etc page’
New learning opportunities for bursaries and placements have been posted on our ‘Awards etc’ page, including a work experience placement at the Diocese of Gloucester’s Church Buildings team and at Argyll and Bute a one-year placement working with the conservation … Continue reading
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Threats to WHS status for up to 4 UK sites
In addition to Liverpool’s waterfront, three World Heritage Sites (WHS) in the UK are being recommended for listing as ‘endangered’ by advisers to UNECSO: the Palace of Westminster and its environs, Hayle Harbour in Cornwall, and the Giant’s Causeway in … Continue reading
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Pickles launches the 3rd Civic Day: ‘Let’s celebrate where we live’
Saturday 22 June is England’s Civic Day and over 150 civic societies have already signed up to hold events to celebrate the distinctiveness of their local area while everyone is invited to join in and learn more about where they … Continue reading
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Blast at minister’s office
A man has been charged in connection with an explosion at the constituency office of Planning Minister Nick Boles, a Lincolnshire MP. Minor damage was done to the offices at Burghley Street, Bourne, in the early hours of Monday. No … Continue reading
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Hyslop hits nail on head again: at Scottish apprenticeship week!
CITB Scotland provided a showcase of events between the 20 – 24 May 2013 as part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week which included MSP visits and employer seminars and Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop doing some slate roofing. CITB writes: The week … Continue reading
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Defra consultation on better regulation
Natural England is working with Defra and other regulators to review environment guidance and all the environmental information required from businesses to make sure it is really needed and used, and to have your say, go to Defra’s interactive website … Continue reading
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Pioneering parish council publishes local building orders
A pioneering Mid Sussex parish council, Slaugham, has become one of the first in England to publish orders that allow communities to grant planning permission for new buildings, sidestepping the normal planning application process. Search Planning Resource: LINK
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Construction’s Open Doors Weekend 2013
The UK Contractor Group’s ‘Open Doors’ Weekend representing the spirit of unveiling the innovative and dynamic side to the UK construction industry, is scheduled for Friday 27 and Satrday 28 September. CITB writes: Following the success of the 2012 weekend, … Continue reading
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New LB enforcement prosecution at Grimsby
A new successful listed buildings enforcement prosecution by Grimsby has been added to the IHBC’s prosecution database, as a homeowner has been ordered to pay £1,500 for leaving up unsightly scaffolding at a listed building in Grimsby for six years. … Continue reading
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Norwich man fined over tree destruction
A Norwich man has been fined £20,000 for cutting down 11 protected trees in one day. Owen Hanbury, 62, of Constitution Hill, pleaded guilty to 11 charges of breaching tree preservation orders on 29 November 2011. He was also ordered … Continue reading
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