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- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary conservation practice standards deliver public benefit 19/12/2025
- Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6.00pm AGM 19/12/2025
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- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £101K+ of weekly works: Trust seeks fire engineer for GII* project to 15/01 19/12/2025
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- UK Government urged to step up maintenance to safeguard ageing infrastructure: Royal Academy of Engineering 19/12/2025
- Landmark Planning and Infrastructure Bill becomes law 19/12/2025
- England’s NPPF update: New consultation on proposed reforms and other changes to the planning system, to 10/03 19/12/2025
- AHRC PhD studentships on ‘barriers to creating healthier places’ 19/12/2025
- £2.9m heritage investment for Waterfront regeneration 19/12/2025
- Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey for Archaeology 19/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Costa Carras European Citizens Awards for the Safeguard of Endangered Heritage 2026, entries open to 16/01/2026 19/12/2025
- 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
Daily Archives: 01/08/2014
IHBC condemns threat to heritage from LA conservation cuts
The IHBC has condemned the impact on service provision and heritage protection of a 35% drop in conservation service capacity since 2006 confirmed in newly published research by the Institute, funded by English Heritage and produced in partnership with ALGAO. … Continue reading
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House of Lords on Farrell Review: ‘unfit’ councils & ‘place = character’
Councils without access to architectural advice should have their plan-making and development control functions taken away, said Lord Tyler in a House of Lords debate on the recent Farrell Review, while Baroness Andrews argued that ‘place is character’. Baroness Andrews … Continue reading
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Radical overhaul of planning in England: consultation out
A new consultation has been launched on changes to the planning system in England, with amendments to the neighbourhood planning process, changes to the use of planning conditions, extensions to permitted development and changes to environmental impact thresholds all proposed, … Continue reading
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Welsh National Park and AONB review
The Welsh Government has confirmed that the terms of reference and the membership of the independent review panel which will look at the governance and purpose of the country’s national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs) will be … Continue reading
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Laurie Lee’s ‘Slad Valley’: homes plan turned down
An appeal by a developer who wanted to build 112 homes in Slad Valley, Gloucestershire, an area made famous by writer and poet Laurie Lee, has been dismissed by a planning inspector. But developer Gladman won his appeal for a … Continue reading
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Canal and Rivers Trust seeks heritage trainees
Following the announcement of an £811,000 grant to the Canal and Rivers Trust in May by the Heritage lottery Fund (HLF), 42 waterways Heritage Trainees are now being recruited to work on the project, which includes practical work in stonemasonry … Continue reading
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Renewable energy community groups gain £500,000 funding
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has announced details of £500,000 for rural community energy projects across England under the Rural Community Energy Fund DEFRA writes: Thirty local renewable energy projects stretching from Cornwall to Cumbria are … Continue reading
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Planning & heritage in the 2014 Commonwealth Games
A citizen journalism initiative has been reporting on some planning, heritage and regeneration around the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, with a profile of a community empowerment initiative in Dalmarnock (where the Athlete’s Village is), the Commonwealth related work of Glasgow … Continue reading
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STBA- SPAB Technical Panel papers
Research and technical papers relating to the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA)- SPAB Technical Panel in June are now available for download. The Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance and SPAB held a conference in June on energy efficiency and traditional buildings, … Continue reading
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Call for Entries – St. David Awards
The Welsh Government is seeking nominations for the St. David Awards, which cross nine categories (including culture and citizenship), with a closing date of 28 October 2014. The Welsh Government writes: The St David Awards annually recognise and celebrate the … Continue reading
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