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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: 13/01/2017
IHBC seeks perspectives on Brexit planning for conservation – plans Europe ‘Special Interest Group’ following Council+ discussions
With numerous initiatives now beginning to examine ‘Brexit’, also known as Brexit, the IHBC, led by Mike Brown, IHBC Vice President, is asking members for their perspectives on Brexit planning for the conservation sector, and would like to hear from … Continue reading
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IHBC Reminder: Marsh Awards for ‘Retired IHBC members’ and new ‘Heritage learners’, close end March 2017
The IHBC’s new Marsh Awards programme has entered its second year with the recent launch of the 2017 Awards, which celebrate both retired IHBC members working in the community and successful learners in heritage practice, and with prizes that include £500 … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Top HESPR tender pick of the week’: Blaenau Gwent County BC, Town Centres Strategy, closing 27 Jan
The IHBC’s commercial conservation services listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers its members weekly HESPR Bulletins that bring tender opportunities together into one handy resource, whle the Director’s top pick for IHBC members this … Continue reading
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IHBC CPD boost: The impact of Business Improvement Districts on urban regeneration
Peter Williams, CEO of Better Bankside in London, talks about how Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) can influence change on a local level and foster urban regeneration, reports Planning & Building Control Today.
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Scotland’s Conservation Crisis No 2: HES – 53% sites at risk
More than half of heritage sites and monuments managed by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) are at risk, according to a recent report, as analysis of 352 historic sites and monuments found 89 per cent were exposed to ‘damaging’ environmental effects, … Continue reading
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Scoping for limited VAT review
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) will carry out a review of a range of aspects of VAT in order to consider whether the VAT system is ‘working appropriately in today’s economy and to identify simplification opportunities’, with an update … Continue reading
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HSE launches new Health and Work Strategy
The Helping Great Britain Work Well strategy from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) sets out how everyone who undertakes or influences workplace activities can contribute to the ambition of improving Great Britain’s health and safety record.
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Apps will allow European online heritage curation via Facebook-like platform
A new Facebook-like social platform and smartphone applications (apps) will be developed by a European consortium to enable people to document Europe’s cultural heritage.
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Lottery boosts coastal tourism with £33 million investment in parks
The National Lottery funds will revitalise 13 public parks across the UK, including five situated in coastal communities.
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Lord Prior appointed as new construction minister
Lord Prior of Brampton replaces Jesse Norman, who has become energy minister after just six months in the construction role.
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Two Scottish WWII heritage sites win HLF funding
A boat that saved the lives of 600 stranded Allied troops at Dunkirk and a former prisoner of war camp will receive more than £1m for restoration work from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the BBC reports.
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Scarborough Futurist Theatre demolition approved
Plans to demolish a 1920s theatre have been approved by councillors amid an angry protest by more than 100 campaigners, according to the BBC.
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