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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: 08/06/2016
OUT & ONLINE NOW: IHBContext144 – Restoration at Kew to HGV vibrations; punk heritage and Pirandello’s authenticity to an insider’s insight to philosophy in IHBC accreditation
The new Context, the IHBC’s membership journal and key heritage sector resource, has just been circulated to members, offering contents that span the full spectrum of practices and principles, alongside the regular sector updates: reports, reviews, events, briefings and much … Continue reading
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IHBC seeks practitioners’ input and direction on heritage and HE ‘strategies’: England’s NPPF and beyond…
The IHBC has been made aware of uncertainties over the status – or even absence – of local authority Heritage and Historic Environment (HE) strategies as a specific component of Local Plans, and the place of such strategies in Local … Continue reading
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Peter Ainsworth: Chairman of The Churches Conservation Trust
The Queen has announced the appointment of the former Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Peter Ainsworth, as Chairman of Trustees of The Churches Conservation Trust from July 2016. The Churches Conservation Trust writes: ‘Peter has been UK Chair of … Continue reading
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Review of Scottish Planning report out
The report of an independent review of the Scottish planning system, commissioned by Scottish Minsters in September 2015, has just been issued, entitled ‘Empowering Planning to Deliver Great Places’, with the aims of the review being ‘to provide an opportunity … Continue reading
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BEFS welcomes new research findings on the state of volunteering
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) welcomes new research findings on the state of volunteering in Scotland’s historic environment sector in ‘Volunteering and the Historic Environment’, published on 1 June. BEFS writes: The report sheds new light on the scale and … Continue reading
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First test of the Housing and Planning Act 2016: the community voice and the Birmingham Development Plan?
The Government has used its powers under the Housing and Planning Act 2016 to issue a holding notice on the Birmingham Development Plan. Planning Portal writes: ‘This intervention came after backbench MP Andrew Mitchell asked Communities Secretary Greg Clark to … Continue reading
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Green Light for new settlement at Stratford-on-Avon
Outline planning permission granted by Stratford-on-Avon District Council to Nexus Planning for 140-hectare development in Warwickshire, the largest scheme ever considered by the council… The Planning Portal writes: The proposals, on behalf of Commercial Estates Group (CEG) and the Bird … Continue reading
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Government seeks Estates Regeneration Initiative
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has requested expressions of interest from parties who want to be involved in the administration’s new estates regeneration programme, with £140m available to target 100 estates around. DCLG writes: A panel chaired … Continue reading
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Homes proposed for former Yorkshire munitions facility
Proposals have been unveiled for an urban village of 1000 homes on the site of a former West Yorkshire munitions factory, near Boston Spa, latterly Thorp Arch trading estate, to be named Rudgate Village. The Rudgate Village development will feature … Continue reading
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Preston CC prepares to lodge High Court challenge against Secretary of State
Differing national and local evaluations of the development of 150 new homes on Preston Road, Grimsargh, described as ‘basically building on open countryside’ has led to Preston City Council (CC) preparation to challenge the Secretary of State’s decision. Preston City … Continue reading
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