Monthly Archives: September 2017

Anglican church figures have shown more than 10 churches a year are closing in Wales over the past decade, according to a new report.

The Belarusian Memorial Chapel, the first wooden church built in London since the Great Fire of 1666; a new entrance for St Anne’s church in Soho featuring sleek glass doors and stylish neon lighting; and the restoration of the cupola … Continue reading →

An independent review of the evaluation reports of 200 Heritage Grants projects completed between 2008 and 2013 found that how comprehensively and how early the project invested in the evaluation impacted on the finished report quality. image from HLF website … Continue reading →

The Welsh Government has published a new economic and growth blueprint that stresses the importance of planning: Prosperity for All.

The India Club in London, a hub for Indian nationalists in the UK during the independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s, is fighting for its survival after plans emerged for the building to be recast internally. Economic Times website … Continue reading →

The CPRE is asking the public to contact MPs to ensure that the strong environment and nature laws we have will stay in place after Brexit.

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has one last chance to fundamentally reform and start facilitating quality training en masse among the construction industry’s smaller firms – Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – according to the Federation of Master Builders … Continue reading →

A Planning Inspector has allowed an appeal to demolish the Stag and Hounds Public House in Croydon, a unique, classically designed three storey building, to build 7 flats and two semi-detached properties, noting an already ‘fractured streetscape’, and concluding that … Continue reading →

Membership of the National Trust has reached five million for the first time, the conservation charity says.

The High Court has told the UK government that its new rules for environmental cases must be changed to protect those taking legal action.

Historic England(HE) has published ‘Heritage and the Economy 2017’, summarising findings from studies on heritage and economic activity, while also introducing a new workbook tool, ‘Heritage Economic Impact Indicators 2017’, described as an ‘interactive workbook to empower users to extract … Continue reading →

England’s Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)has announced that a new round of funding means that ‘Towns and cities along Britain’s coastline set to benefit from thousands of new jobs and millions of pounds more in visitor spending.’ Contains … Continue reading →

England’s Parks and Green Spaces Minister Marcus Jones , for Defra, launched a new Parks Action Group to help England’s public parks and green spaces meet the needs of communities now and in the future. Contains public sector information licensed … Continue reading →

Britain’s oldest conservation charity, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), reports that the demolition of a Grade II-listed (GII) cottage at 13 Church Street, Owston Ferry, Doncaster, was the result of North Lincolnshire Council’s failure to safeguard … Continue reading →

Richard Buxton has gone into battle over birds, wind farms, Harrier jump jets and the rides at Alton Towers, and campaigners fighting to save Torquay’s seafront Cary Green from development have hired the man ‘who took on the Government – … Continue reading →

England’s Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has published live tables for statistics on planning applications at national and local planning authority level, including statistics on planning applications in England between April and June 2017 and the first set of … Continue reading →