Daily Archives: 24/05/2017

IHBC, heritage & infrastructure – challenges and opportunities – so let your colleagues & networks know: Manchester, 22, 23 & 24 June

Gain insights into one of the most challenging heritage resources of our time – transport infrastructure – and discover imaginative opportunities and sustainable answers, at the IHBC’s 2017 School and conference (22-24 June), and let your colleagues and networks know! … Continue reading

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IHBC responds to HE’s ‘Enabling Development and heritage Assets’

IHBC comments have been lodged for the Historic England (HE) consultation on ‘Enabling Development and Heritage Assets’.

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IHBC welcomes ’Heritage Works’ 2017, a toolkit of best practice in heritage regeneration launched

The third edition of ’Heritage Works’ has been launched by Deloitte for the British Property Federation (BPF), Historic England and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

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IHBC CPD in focus and in Context: Conservation Area antecedents in America’s southern States

In the latest issue of the IHBC’s membership journal Context, themed on the 50th Anniversary of the Civic Amenities Act and the birth of Conservation Areas, Timothy Cantell explores Conservation Area ‘Antecedents from the American South’.

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Court delivers landmark ruling strengthening hand of local planners

A council in Cheshire has secured a ‘landmark ruling’ from the Supreme Court that it says will better protect green areas from speculative housing developments.

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LGA’s ‘Ten point plan’ to boost local services: local government sets out key manifesto ‘asks’

The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, has called on all political parties to commit to a 10-point plan to boost vital local services, build homes, create school places, close skills gaps … Continue reading

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£45m Welsh Government funding to support national cultural heritage

Wales’ national institutions will benefit from almost £45 million of Welsh Government funding this year, Economy Secretary Ken Skates announced on 15 May.

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Changes to the apprenticeship funding system in England

England is making changes to the way apprenticeship funding works, including introducing an apprenticeship levy, an apprenticeship service and a new ‘co-investment rate’.

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Building Conservation Project of the Year: RICS Awards, East of England

Building Conservation Project of the Year at the RICS Awards, East of England is a £5.1 million scheme to rescue the ‘at risk’ Grade II* Medieval church, St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich, transforming it into a unique wellbeing and … Continue reading

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Green campaigner loses court battle on poetic landscape and Derry-Belfast upgrade

An environmentalist has lost a court case against the A6 Derry to Belfast route of a major road scheme close to landscape made famous by poet Seamus Heaney, reports the Derry Daily.

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