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- 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: 23/11/2016
IHBC’s Conservation Area anniversary celebrations fund update: Check out some of the ideas already coming in from civic trusts!
Take a look at some of the great ideas already received from local Civic Trusts on they can use the IHBC’s £2500 allocation to help local communities celebrate the 50th anniversary of Conservation Areas in 2017. Picture: First designated conservation … Continue reading
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IHBC launches new Guidance Note: ‘Cemetery Monuments and the new British Standard’ (BS 8415)
IHBC’s newest Guidance Note (GN), entitled ‘Historic Cemetery Monuments Testing and the new British Standard’ (GN2016/4) has been published on the IHBC’s Toolbox. Bob Kindred, IHBC Research co-ordinator and author of this Guidance Note, said: ‘This is a short interim … Continue reading
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Reminder – IHBC Scotland Branch AGM and ‘hard hat’ visit to Riddles Court: 25 Nov
IHBC Scotland Branch has announced its AGM (6 pm) and linked ‘Hard Hat’ visit to Edinburgh’s ‘Riddles Court, a Merchants House fit for a King’, on 25 November from 2pm on For details and more background and options see the … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘bigger picture’ NewsBlog: Government Response to BE Select Committee says ‘historic environment is a resource of significant cultural, social and economic value’
The Government’s response to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Built Environment (BE), says it ‘recognises that England’s historic environment is a resource of significant cultural, social and economic value’. The 44 page document is the response to … Continue reading
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Farewell Boleyn: Passing on significance… in footies’ historic environment
The demolition of the Boleyn Ground, former home to West Ham United Football Club, has given one lifelong Hammers fan the opportunity to have one final look around the grand old lady of London’s East End, while progress is being … Continue reading
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England’s areas with the most listed buildings: buyers expect costs at c.50% more than area average
Real estate agent Savills has looked at 350,000 listed buildings across England to find the areas with the highest concentration of listed properties per head of population. The company found that buyers expect to pay almost 50% more than the … Continue reading
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H&S in construction: 43 workers killed in 2015/16
Statistics from the Health & Safety Executive (H&SE) show a construction fatality rate of 1.94 per 100,000 workers, compared to 0.46 across all industries Looking at average figures over the years of 2013/4 to 2015/6, there were around 79,000 cases … Continue reading
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Property Flood Resilience Action Plan out
An independent report has been issued relating to flood protection, aiming to help with flood resilience. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) writes: The Property Flood Resilience Action Plan will see Government and industry help people better … Continue reading
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More than a million homes possible on brownfield land, say CPRE
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) says that suitable brownfield sites in England can provide up to 1.4 million new homes. The CPRE used the Government’s pilot brownfield register scheme to estimate that brownfield sites could provide between 1.1 … Continue reading
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English local authorities paid out nearly £12m in costs over lost planning appeals
Daniel Watney LLP gathered the data from Freedom of Information requests sent to the UK’s 418 principal local authorities. The property consultancy asked the authorities for the cost of appeal proceedings between 2010/11 and 2015/16. Cornwall Council paid out the … Continue reading
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BBC features Heritage Crime
The BBC reported in September on how police forces in England have teamed up with heritage experts to crack down on gangs stealing valuable metal from churches and historic buildings. The BBC writes: Officers are working with Historic England to … Continue reading
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