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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
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 19/12/2025
- IHBC’s Research Signpost from HE & EH: ‘Pathways Into Heritage Construction: A Strategic View/Models and Case Studies’ 19/12/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £101K+ of weekly works: Trust seeks fire engineer for GII* project to 15/01 19/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (riverside) doorstep’: Historic rail bridge collapses into River Spey 19/12/2025
- 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: 08/05/2015
IHBC & co. call to new government: ‘local planning and development capacity!’
With the Conservatives on course to form the next government IHBC President Trefor Thorpe said ‘The primary concern now must be that we have the right infrastructure in place for the sustainable management of our resources, including our heritage’, as … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes new HE Bill for Wales
The IHBC has welcomed the introduction of the ‘Historic Environment (Wales) Bill’, the first Wales-only legislation for the historic environment, highlighting in particular the new opportunities it offers for local authorities to address ‘the crisis in the condition of Wales’ … Continue reading
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IHBC members with benefits: Bristol’s ‘Retrofit’ & early birds
IHBC members are able to claim a discount on fees for the Responsible Retrofit conference to be held in Bristol on 3 June, while a further early bird discount is available for local authorities booking next week. On Monday 11 … Continue reading
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Heritage bodies to ‘urge incoming MPs to save England’s heritage’
Members of The Heritage Alliance, of which the IHBC is one, are urging people to contact their newly elected MP to encourage them to support heritage issues. The Heritage Alliance (THA) writes: You can help ensure the future survival of … Continue reading
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NPPF ‘country house’ clause used in Kings Lynn
Kings Lynn planning committee in the Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk have approved a new-build country house, utilising a hydrogen fuel cell energy system, citing paragraph 55 of the NPPF as a key consideration. The planning application … Continue reading
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Arts role in community empowerment highlighted in NI
Northern Ireland’s (NI) culture minister has highlighted the importance of the arts and creative projects to community development and wellbeing, saying ‘The arts are a right, not a luxury. They should be accessible to all regardless of means or background.’ … Continue reading
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Builder appointed to £8.9m Stirling Engine Shed
A project to transform a former railway shed in Stirling into a building conservation training centre – the ‘Engine Shed’ has taken a step forward with the appointment of a contractor, as David Mitchell, director of conservation at Historic Scotland … Continue reading
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Creating jobs by resource conservation: ‘The Circular Economy’
The conclusion of a recent report is that half a million jobs would be created by transforming our economy from a take, make and throwaway one to a genuinely green one which optimises efficiency, renewability and working with environmental respect. … Continue reading
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Peers call for insulating homes spending priority
On 2 April an open letter published in The Times, from leading peers, called for cross party consensus to make home energy efficiency an infrastructure spending priority. Energy Bill Revolution writes: The 5 peers who include representatives of all the … Continue reading
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Warwick Castle trebuchet fireball ‘sparked boathouse blaze’
A blaze thought to have been caused by a fireball which was launched from a trebuchet at Warwick Castle has destroyed a historic boathouse. The BBC writes: Sparks from the projectile are believed to have ignited the blaze. About 300 … Continue reading
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Re-use of listed telephone box rejected by function loss
The change of use of a grade II listed BT telephone box within a central London conservation area would unacceptably undermine its function and importance as an icon of 20th century industrial design. Planning Resource article
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Celebrate National Mills Weekend with the SPAB: 9-10 May
This weekend is national mills weekend, organised by the SPAB Mills Section, where watermills and windmills around all of the IHBC regions will be hosting special events or opening doors to usually hidden sites, with an art and photography competition … Continue reading
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