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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: 03/08/2016
‘Designing Buildings Wiki’ features IHBC’s Context ‘spreading the word on building types’ – Hong Kong shophouses, London flatlands, medieval settlements and more
‘Designing Buildings Wiki’(DB Wiki), the open-access ‘Wiki’ resource for the built environment and development sectors, is featuring the IHBC’s new issue of Context on the home page of the site, which has 10,000 daily visits, and on its email update, … Continue reading
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CIfA member? Get IHBC’s journal Context free for a year through our ‘reciprocal membership’
If you are a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) you can get free access to IHBC member support for a whole year – including 5 issues of Context – by joining IHBC online now. For more on … Continue reading
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Grosvenor Estate redevelopment plan threatens oldest functioning timber yard
The Grosvenor Estate is engaged in a controversial bid to redevelop Newson’s Timber Yard on Pimlico Road, Belgravia, with plans to convert the 175-year-old timber yard into high end residential and large retail units. Builders’ Merchants News writes: This will … Continue reading
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MPs probe England’s forestry policy
The Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into the role of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEfRA) in supporting a thriving forest economy and environment. The Committee writes: The all-party group of … Continue reading
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Canal and River Trust sees hundredfold growth in volunteering hours
The Canal and River Trust (CRT), formerly the quango British Waterways, has seen volunteering rise almost a hundredfold since the start of the decade, but lost money on fundraising, its most recent accounts show. CRT writes: According to the charity’s … Continue reading
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Local bid to have Victorian hall in Hull listed rejected
Attempts by local residents to get a Hull city centre Victorian warehouse, Braves Hall, listed for its historic importance have been rejected with the building set to be demolished to improve setting of new venue. The Hull Daily Mail writes: … Continue reading
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Plans for UK’s ‘first pedestrianised shopping precinct’ makeover
Plans have been submitted to Tower Hamlets Council to create a mixed-use scheme to reinvigorate Chrisp Street Market in Poplar east London, a pioneering pedestrian retail precinct with housing above, part of which was the UK’s first-ever pedestrianised shopping precinct designed … Continue reading
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Natural England opens the latest stretch of England Coast Path in Middlesbrough
Sixty eight miles of sign posted National Trail will give walkers new and improved access and connect the urban heartland of Teesside to its open coast. The continuous route starts at Filey Brigg and passes north through the popular resorts … Continue reading
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HLF on ‘Changing lives’: Read them on Tumblr
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded over £7.1billion to over 40,000 heritage projects across the UK and currently week by week they are telling stories about people whose lives have been changed for the better thanks to money raised … Continue reading
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