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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: 19/07/2013
IHBC welcomes Wales Heritage Bill consultation
Trefor Thorpe, speaking as President of The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), the UK’s professional body for building and historic environment conservation specialists, has welcomed the launch of the Welsh Government’s consultation on the content of its proposed Heritage … Continue reading
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IHBC NW Branch launches digital Day conference 2013
The North West (NW) Branch of the IHBC has launched another of its ever-popular Day Conferences, with its 2013 event set to explore the critical new area of Digital technology, and which will take place on Wednesday 16 October in Manchester. … Continue reading
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Last chance nears for 2013 IHBC Student Award submissions
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 prestigious Gus Astley Annual Student Award for 2013, presented for exceptional work by students on … Continue reading
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Green Deal benefits overstated by up to 77%
The system used to calculate energy savings under the Green Deal, which is critical to the flagship energy efficiency programme’s success, is unreliable and inflates the savings a householder can expect to achieve from retrofit work to their home by … Continue reading
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Park Hill & medieval shell in 2013 RIBA Stirling shortlist for best ‘new’ building
The shortlist for the prestigious 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize for the best new building has been announced as six exciting and exceptional buildings will now go head to head for architecture’s highest accolade from the Royal Institute of British Architects … Continue reading
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Unblocking local infrastructure projects
Local infrastructure schemes in England are set to benefit from a new public-private initiative to get projects off the ground. As part of the new Local Infrastructure Demonstrator Partnership pilots, leading private sector professionals are working for free alongside Government partners … Continue reading
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RIBA: £80,000 for crucial architectural & historic research
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winners of the RIBA Research Trust Awards and the RIBA LKE Ozolins Studentship, with awards covering post-war architecture in the North East of England; British architects’ use of daylight; Shell … Continue reading
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Southbank undercroft gets Localism Act listing
Lambeth Council has agreed to the listing of the Undercroft, the iconic skateboarding area on London’s Southbank, as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). Skateboards and graffiti artists are campaigning to safeguard the area earmarked for redevelopment as part of … Continue reading
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PRT secures HLF Catalyst funding
The Prince’s Regeneration Trust (PRT) is delighted to announce initial Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) support for a £465,900 Catalyst Umbrella bid, designed to change how communities save heritage. PRT writes: PRT proposes to deliver an ambitious national learning and support … Continue reading
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Planning data blog: Inspectors’ decisions published by PINS
A recently published statistical report from the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) contains an interesting table showing how many appeals each inspector determined in 2012/13, and for each inspector, the proportion of these appeals which were allowed or dismissed and the Planning … Continue reading
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New research centre targets economic growth
A new best practice centre which its backers claim will be the economic growth equivalent of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence is set to go live at the beginning of September. Search Planning Resource: LINK
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RTPI-RSPB report highlights nature-friendly planning projects
Planning for biodiversity ‘should be integral to every part of the planning process’, according to a new report, ‘Planning Naturally’, jointly produced by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and environmental groups. Development and nature can go hand in hand, … Continue reading
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Historic civil engineering archives achieve UNESCO status
Membership records contained in the historic archives of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) are to be inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, in recognition of their international importance. The Memory of the World Programme ensures the … Continue reading
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