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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: 08/07/2016
IHBC Members with benefits: Yangon (Rangoon) ‘Echoes’, special offer… till 26 July
‘ Yangon Echoes, Inside heritage homes’ is an illustrated anthology of oral histories from people living in the city’s old places, and as a special offer to IHBC members, only until 26 July, you can purchase copies at a reduced … Continue reading
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Milton Keynes 2050 vision: valuing heritage
The heritage of Milton Keynes is increasingly well recognised, and is a small but important thread in a report by a commission of independent experts which considered what sort of city Milton Keynes could become by 2050. The report suggests … Continue reading
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Historic Environment Scotland Policy Statement June 2016
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has published a policy statement that replaces the Scottish Historic Environment Policy (SHEP) for operational matters. HES writes: This policy statement, the Scottish Planning Policy, Historic Environment Circular 1 and Historic Environment Scotland’s Managing Change in the … Continue reading
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New Chief Executive at The Heritage Alliance
The Heritage Alliance (THA) has announced that Lizzie Glithero-West is to be its new Chief Executive from September. THA writes: Lizzie brings a wealth of skills and experience to the position. She is currently adviser to Baroness Neville-Rolfe at the … Continue reading
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RTPI: new bursaries to promote undergraduate diversity
The RTPI Trust will fund four undergraduate bursaries for the 2016-17 academic year to help high-achieving students from diverse backgrounds or living with a disability to study planning and gain Chartered membership. Read more…. and see the press release
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Historic London pub wins in Court of Appeal
The owner of an historic London pub in Stepney, Tower Hamlets, the George Tavern, has won a Court of Appeal challenge after a planning appeal allowed a three-storey building on the site of a former nightclub next door, with the … Continue reading
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Loyd Grossman CBE appointed Chair of The Royal Parks
Culture Secretary, John Whittingdale, has appointed Loyd Grossman CBE, also Heritage Alliance Chair and the keynote speaker at the IHBC’s recent Annual School in Worcester, as the Chairman of The Royal Parks. Read the press release
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Parliamentary briefing on revocation of planning permission
The Commons Library has published a briefing paper on the ‘Revocation of planning permission‘, which covers the rarely-used procedure that occasionally allows planning permission to be revoked after it has been granted. The Commons Library writes: This briefing paper describes … Continue reading
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Six designs shortlisted for new Museum of London at Smithfield General Market
The Museum of London has today revealed the design concepts from six architectural teams shortlisted in the international design competition for the new museum at West Smithfield set to open in 2021 Each of the designs illustrate what the new … Continue reading
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