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- England’s NPPF update: New consultation on proposed reforms and other changes to the planning system, to 10/03 19/12/2025
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- 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
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- 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: 04/05/2016
IHBC’s newest ‘Toolbox’ Research Note out: ‘Change to Thatched Roofing Materials… in England’ – RN 2106/2
The IHBC has published the next in its programme of practice-led research notes with the release of ‘Change to Thatched Roofing Materials Planning Policy and Planning Appeals in England’, (RN 2016/2) authored by IHBC’s Research consultant Bob Kindred, with the … Continue reading
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IHBC collations update on 2016 elections: New analyses
A previous IHBC NewsBlog update noted a number of manifesto summaries relating to the historic environment, the built environment, construction and planning, all relates to the forthcoming elections, and a further two have been brought to our attention: The analysis … Continue reading
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Skills Shortage: increased salaries?
The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has released its latest ‘State of Trade’ survey, considering the effect of skills shortages on construction firms and predicting that the majority of small construction firms expect wages to increase in the next six … Continue reading
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AHRC Cultural Value Report
New research funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has concluded that we need new ways looking at ‘cultural value’, the report also looks at the debates around heritage value and intangible heritage in research. The AHRC writes: The … Continue reading
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NT blog- ‘stop the countdown to catastrophe for world heritage’
The National Trust (NT) has released a blog post that suggests ‘Apathy towards our world heritage poses a greater risk to it than climate change, war and conflict, bad planning or natural disasters’, responding to the latest report from International … Continue reading
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Gladman Developments wins greenfield homes appeal
Planning Portal reports that Gladman Developments has won on appeal an outline proposal for nearly 300 new homes on a greenfield site as the inspector concluded that the scheme represented a sustainable form of development and that the harm to … Continue reading
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Ealing Council enforcement action
A large, unauthorised building constructed at the rear of a proposed care home facility in Southall has been demolished by Ealing Council as the result of enforcement action due to it ‘causing significant harm to neighbouring residents and properties’. Ealing … Continue reading
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Opportunity: UCL & Ecclesiastical Insurance Bursary
The UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage is offering an Ecclesiastical Insurance Bursary, with a closing date for receipt of applications of Monday 25 July 2016 UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage writes: High calibre applicants should apply for bursaries. This support could … Continue reading
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RTPI – Mapping planning permissions for housing in twelve English city-regions
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and Bilfinger GVA have published a first of its kind report into the effect of recently introduced housing policy, highlighting the need to construct new houses in the right places, close to transport links, … Continue reading
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England’s ‘Empty Homes’ at ‘All time low’
The latest DCLG statistics for housing show that the number of empty homes is currently at its lowest since records began. DCLG writes: The number of empty homes is now at its lowest level since records began. reversal of downward … Continue reading
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New giving to heritage sessions available- Social Investment in Heritage
The latest edition of the THA bulletin notes that a new range of Giving to Heritage workshops have been launched; ‘Social Investment in Heritage’ sessions are now available, tailored to the needs of the historic environment sector. The Heritage Alliance (THA) … Continue reading
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