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- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 23/12/2025
- 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 6pm AGM 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Chris Wood on ‘A code of practice for slate and stone roofing’ 23/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary conservation practice standards deliver public benefit 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s Research signpost: ‘… synergy… of historic building retrofit and the heritage of traditional building craft practices…’ 23/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’ No.1: DB with its ‘Designing Buildings Christmas verse’ 23/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’ No.2: NCE on ‘The dilemma of industrial heritage’… 23/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (pub) doorstep’: The 12 Pubs of Christmas – a seasonal Blog from Historic England 23/12/2025
- Government plans ‘Single Construction Regulator’ to ensure standards across sector, with consultation open to 20/03 23/12/2025
- HES: Troubled body told to address ‘unacceptable’ governance by Audit Scotland 23/12/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments 23/12/2025
- AHRC PhD studentships on ‘barriers to creating healthier places’ 23/12/2025
- John McAslan + Partners: ‘…transformative alternative vision for Liverpool Street Station…’ 23/12/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 23/12/2025
- Heritage Trust North West takes on Baguley Hall 23/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: NTHP sues to stop White House Ballroom works for violating Constitutional property clause & absent Congress authorisation 23/12/2025
- 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
Daily Archives: 28/04/2017
IHBC’s 2017 Yearbook now out: On ‘infrastructure’, inspired by IHBC’s 2017 Annual School and introduced by HLF’s Ros Kerslake
More than 5500 copies of the IHBC’s Yearbook for 2017 are being distributed to members and sector leaders, containing feature articles linked to the IHBC’s 2017 Annual School theme of ‘Historic Transport Infrastructure’, as well as the regular IHBC resources, … Continue reading
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‘Thatch conservation in a day’: Book now – 17 May, Peterborough
Another remarkable day of IHBC-recognised CPD on the ‘Conservation of Thatch’, is on offer on 17 May, in Peterborough, with costs supported by Historic England.
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Reminder: IHBC helps open CIOB/NT conference: ‘Successful Operation of Historic Building’, London 3 May
IHBC director, Sean O’Reilly will join in opening this joint CIOB/National Trust conference and the IHBC will host a stand at this one day event which focuses on ‘the key tools to ensure the successful operation of historic buildings.’
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IHBC’s ‘Top HESPR pick’ of the week: Torfaen CBC’s ‘on-site survey of scheduled structures /buildings’, valued @ £15,000 & closing 15 May
The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members weekly Bulletins that bring tender and other business opportunities together into one handy resource, and the Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes HE’s New Director of Planning: Ian Morrison
The IHBC has welcomed the news that Ian Morrison, Chief Executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund is to be Historic England’s (HE’s) next Director of Planning and will lead the heritage body’s Planning staff across nine regional offices at a … Continue reading
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Crispin Truman leaves CCT to head CPRE
Crispin Truman, Chief Executive of The Churches Conservation Trust, is to vacate his post there at the end of July to take up the position of CEO of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).
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Archbishops set up Cathedrals Working Group
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have set up a Cathedrals Working Group, CWG, in response to a recent call for a revision of the adequacy of the current Cathedrals Measure. image by S.McLeish
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Court rules Kensington ‘candy-cane’ house stripes can stay
A woman who decorated her London townhouse with red and white stripes can ignore a council order to repaint it, the High Court has ruled.
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BEFS: Financing the Historic Environment presentations online
Insightful and colourful presentations from a range of speakers who contributed to a two-day BEFS conference in Glasgow are now available online.
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A warning for cultural WHSs? Almost half natural WHSs threatened by illegal trade, says WWF
Many World Heritage Sites (WHSs) inscribed for their cultural values face pressures, but the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) points out that nearly half the natural WHSs are at risk from the same kinds of industry that can threaten cultural sites, … Continue reading
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CCT: Lead Theft at St John the Baptist, Inglesham, Wiltshire
The Churches Conservation Trust has announced that on Tuesday 11th April they discovered that the lead roof covering had been stolen from Inglesham church.
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UK’s most picturesque streets revealed… by National Express
The Shambles, York’s famous fourteenth century market road, has been named Britain’s prettiest street following a survey by National Express Group.
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