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- Bursaries for #IHBCNewcastle2026 open to 13/04, 18-20 June: ‘Submit now to be next on the list!’ 17/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 17/02/2026
- IHBC President’s ‘Members only’ Invitation to next Virtual Council: Online, 8 April 2026, from 4.30pm – Scoping ‘Investigation’ of conservation in local government, with a call for suggestions etc. 17/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 17/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: Great Expectations Conference update by the National Churches Trust – Recordings now available 17/02/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s NewsBlog on ‘BOOKING OPEN for IHBC’s Full School (June 18-20): #IHBCNewcastle2026’ 17/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Heritage charity to change name after sale of 20,000-acre estate 17/02/2026
- National Heritage Emergency declared by Stoke-on-Trent – ‘first for a UK City’ – as Potteries needs £325Mn investment over the next decade 17/02/2026
- Nominations open for the Plowden Medal Conservation Award 2026, to 15/05 17/02/2026
- LPOC announces Listed & Modern Architectural Awards 2026 17/02/2026
- The Heritage Fund on ‘Putting people’s memories at the heart of heritage-inspired regeneration’ – ‘Felt experience’ 17/02/2026
- Headline findings of Official Statistics from the Community Life Survey 2024/25 released 10 December 2025 17/02/2026
- Scottish Infrastructure Strategy 2027-2037 Consultation now out 17/02/2026
- IHBC President’s ‘Members only’ Invitation to next Virtual Council: Online, 8 April 2026, from 4.30pm – Scoping ‘Investigation’ of conservation in local government, with a call for suggestions etc. 13/02/2026
- IHBC welcomes National Apprenticeship Week: to 15/02 13/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 13/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 13/02/2026
- IHBC is planning for growth, so grow with us by volunteering, with our Committees, Boards and Branches, or Panels, Groups and more as suits – just let us know! 13/02/2026
- IHBC ‘Management’ Signpost: Managing Surplus Government Property, guidance from the Government 13/02/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £64K of weekly works: UK heritage body seeks Chief Exec, to 28/02 13/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the ‘super-rich’ doorstep’: Britain’s building standards so bad that even super-rich face housing misery… 13/02/2026
- Southbank now listed: The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery and associated terraced walkways and stairs 13/02/2026
- Iconic canals to be better protected with £6.5 million investment- Funding to support repair, maintenance & long-term projects 13/02/2026
- 2026 SPAB Fellows and Scholars announced 13/02/2026
- New £11.5Mn fund to help England’s charities and councils support local communities 13/02/2026
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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