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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
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Daily Archives: 28/06/2013
IHBC’s Linkedin Group @ 3000+: Join the service!
Membership of the IHBC’s Linkedin group, the primary social networking platform for IHBC members, colleagues and other conservation interests, has passed 3000. Dave Chetwyn, IHBC past chair and lead Linkedin Group Manager, said: ‘The membership of the IHBC Linkedin Group … Continue reading
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IHBC Skills School update: AGM motion targets support for IHBC professionals of the future – ‘Affiliates’
As well as populating the institute’s senior tiers with some relatively new faces, including IHBC Chair Mike Brown; Vice Chair Emilia Hands and new Policy Secretary David Kincaid, the IHBC’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 21 June delivered a step-change … Continue reading
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IHBC SW Branch conference: ‘Characterisation…’ on 20 Sept, with added ‘CIRCUS’
The IHBC’s South West (SW) Branch has announced the details of its forthcoming conference in Bristol on 20 September, at the stunning listed circus-training venue Circomedia, an event that will tie in with the institute’s national annual ‘peripatetic meeting’ of … Continue reading
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IHBC’s £300 Student Award open to all – but 2013 term closes end July
Students, staff and colleagues from any taught course in the UK are reminded that the closing date of 31 July is approaching for the IHBC’s Gus Astley Annual Student Award, which is presented for exceptional work from any discipline that … Continue reading
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£80 Million to establish EH’s properties as independent charity
As reported here on Wednesday 26th June 2013 The Government has announced that it will work with English Heritage to consult on establishing a charity to care for the historic properties in the National Heritage Collection on a self-financing basis, … Continue reading
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£91 million to tackle over 6,000 empty homes
Communities Minister Don Foster has announced that towns across England will benefit from £91m to refurbish and bring back into use over 6,000 empty and derelict homes and commercial premises, particularly in the Midlands and North. The funding is being … Continue reading
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Places still at IHBC-supported RTPI ‘Future Heritage Planning’: 04 July
4 July 2013 Swindon, Steam Museum Planning for Heritage is changing. What will this mean for owners, developers, heritage organizations, communities and applicants? Hear from leading Planners and Conservation advisors on how they are responding to the changes and their … Continue reading
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Scotland’s new architecture policy: A commitment to quality
Scotland’s new national policy on architecture, recently launched, has stressed the importance of enriching the people of Scotland’s lives through quality buildings and places as the policy sets out a key role for Architecture + Design Scotland (A+DS) in championing … Continue reading
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Osborne confirms further 10% council spending cuts
Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed a further ten per cent cut to local authority budgets to take place in the year 2015/16, saying communities secretary Eric Pickles is a ‘model of lean government‘. Search Planning Resource: LINK
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‘Nationally significant’ consent regime extended to hotel complexes etc
England’s Ministers have decided which types of major development will in the future be eligible for the development consent regime set up for nationally significant infrastructure projects, currently covering major energy, transport, waste, water and transport schemes, and which will … Continue reading
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Changes at Civic Voice as director departs
The Director of Civic Voice, Steve Graham, has left in a re-structuring of the body. Paula Ridley, Civic Voice Chair, writes: As part of a regular review of finances the Trustees have decided to adopt a new staffing structure for Civic … Continue reading
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Boles: faster planning with design standard
Housebuilders that meet the Building for Life design standard could benefit from accelerated planning procedures, England’s planning minister Nick Boles has said. Search Planning Resource: LINK
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Historic Scotland web survey
Historic Scotland has launched a web-based survey to assess the effectiveness of their website, with paid incentives for those contributing to future discussions. Historic Scotland writes: As conservation professionals engaging with Historic Scotland we would appreciate your feedback on the … Continue reading
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Medway Core Strategy – problems with SSSI for housing site
Medway Council in Kent has urged the Government to intervene after a planning inspector recommended that the planning authority withdraw and rewrite its Core Strategy (CS) after a key housing site in the document was notified as a Site of … Continue reading
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National Lottery Good Causes finalists include GBPT’s Gartnavel Chapel
Voting is under way in the finals of the National Lottery Good Causes Awards Campaign, with finalists in the heritage category including the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) Gartnavel Chapel, Cancer Support Centre, in Scotland, and the Grade II listed … Continue reading
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BEFS & partners in collaborative HLF funded Catalyst project
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) is delighted to be part of a capacity building and fundraising training project which has recently been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) development grant. As part of its UK Catalyst programme the HLF has … Continue reading
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EH update on designations-related publications
English Heritage has provided updates on its recent publications relating to designation activities, and welcomes feedback. Roger Bowdler, Designation Director at English Heritage writes: We are pleased to announce the publication of new documents from English Heritage: the Designation Yearbook … Continue reading
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