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Daily Archives: 29/05/2016
IHBC’s ‘in case you missed it’: 6 months free NewsBlogs reminder
Anyone in or beyond the heritage, development and cultural communities can now take a 6-month ‘taster’ of the IHBC’s membership benefits by signing up for our free email news updates – the IHBC’s celebrated NewsBlogs – and experience just one … Continue reading
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IHBC on HES charity and NDPB ‘Corporate Plan’: Being part of the Storify #HEStory
The IHBC has welcomed the launch of the first Corporate Plan for Historic Environment Scotland (HES), covering the period 2016-19 and setting out the vision and direction of the new charity and Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), with a contribution to … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes THA briefing on heritage and the EU
The IHBC has welcomed the briefing by The Heritage Alliance (THA), on ‘Heritage & the EU: how the EU impacts on our heritage in England’. THA writes: Like many umbrella bodies with diverse memberships, The Heritage Alliance is not taking a … Continue reading
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Round three for HLF Skills for the future programme
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced a third round of its Skills for the Future programme, which will offer grants of £100,000 to £750,000 for projects providing paid work-based training placements to meet a skills shortage in the heritage … Continue reading
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New Ministerial responsibilities for Wales from May 2016
Delegation of responsibilities to the new Ministers in Wales includes both continuity and change, as Ken Skates takes the historic environment as Cabinet Secretary for Economy & Infrastructure, while planning comes under Lesley Griffiths, as Cabinet Secretary for Environment & … Continue reading
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BEFS on ministerial appointments in Scotland for 2016-17
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has offered its review ministerial appointments in Scotland following the First Minister’s announcement of her new Cabinet Secretaries for the 2016-17 sitting of the Scottish Parliament, as the historic environment remains with Fiona Hyslop within … Continue reading
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Delisting of Hepworth’s Epidauros II at St Ives: it’s a chattel, not a building!
Historic England (HE) notes that, while the strong artistic and historic significance of Barbara Hepworth’s Epidauros II, an important rounded, pierced bronze sculpture overlooking the sea in her hometown, St. Ives, was recognised when it was listed in 1998, a … Continue reading
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Matched crowdfunding pilot tender from HLF, DCMS etc.
Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), Nesta and DCMS are commissioning a crowdfunding platform to develop a match fund, to be hosted on a pre-existing platform, in order to experiment with match funding models in the arts and … Continue reading
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Clark blocks green belt solar farms for harm to visual amenity and LB settings
The Communities Secretary dismisses appeals for two solar farms, in Worcestershire and Essex, as neither demonstrated the very special circumstances needed to justify development in the green belts and would harm the landscape character, visual amenity and setting of Listed … Continue reading
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One of Churchill’s Secret Wireless Stations scheduled
A Second World War underground wireless station in Norwich, which was part of a secret communications network set up in 1940 by Churchill in response to the increasing threat of German invasion, has been protected as a scheduled monument by … Continue reading
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