Daily Archives: 06/03/2018

IHBC’s second NewsBlog Branches Update: Explore Branch CPD events across the UK

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

This second issue of IHBC Branches Update is offering an extremely rich variety of events, offering local CPD across the UK for both members and colleagues, organised by our proactive branches! Check out the next Membership application support session (MATE) … Continue reading →

Posted in IHBC NewsBlog | Comments Off on IHBC’s second NewsBlog Branches Update: Explore Branch CPD events across the UK

IHBC responds to HE on ‘Dealing with contested heritage’: Make ‘Contested Heritage’ part of a bigger conservation picture

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

The IHBC has submitted its response on the consultation draft from Historic England (HE) concerning ‘Guidance on dealing with contested heritage’, highlighting that it ‘is in the nature of almost all heritage that it holds different values to different people’, … Continue reading →

Posted in IHBC NewsBlog | Comments Off on IHBC responds to HE on ‘Dealing with contested heritage’: Make ‘Contested Heritage’ part of a bigger conservation picture

IHBC’s President highlights C20 Soc’s modern CA seminar – ‘Making it happen’: 22 March, London, only £25 

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

To mark the 50th anniversary of conservation areas (CAs), the Twentieth Century Society (C20 Soc) has been investigating modern conservation areas, and IHBC President David McDonald, who is helping on the programme, highlights an important seminar coming up on ‘new … Continue reading →

Posted in IHBC NewsBlog | Comments Off on IHBC’s President highlights C20 Soc’s modern CA seminar – ‘Making it happen’: 22 March, London, only £25 

IHBC CPD boost on ‘Reading Design’: … as an architect explores how ‘Living in a house… is a full time job’! 

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing about design, that claims it ‘embraces the whole of design, from architecture and urbanism to product, fashion, graphics and beyond and the texts featured date from the nineteenth century up to … Continue reading →

Posted in IHBC NewsBlog | Comments Off on IHBC CPD boost on ‘Reading Design’: … as an architect explores how ‘Living in a house… is a full time job’! 

IHBC’s ‘heritage from the doorstep’: ‘Devastated’ campaigners admit defeat on Ancoats Dispensary’ 

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Manchester Evening News has reported on how the listed Victorian gem The Ancoats Dispensary – on Old Mill Street – is to be handed over to Manchester council for affordable housing, ‘although town hall bosses say they will try … Continue reading →

Posted in IHBC NewsBlog | Comments Off on IHBC’s ‘heritage from the doorstep’: ‘Devastated’ campaigners admit defeat on Ancoats Dispensary’ 

Press release: Listed buildings under threat in Wales – heritage groups urge rethink of planning law reform

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

In a letter printed in The Times, nine national heritage organisations including SAVE Britain’s Heritage, the SPAB and the Ancient Monuments Society, call on the Welsh Law Commission and the Welsh Assembly to reject proposed changes to legislation that would … Continue reading →

Posted in Sector NewsBlog | Comments Off on Press release: Listed buildings under threat in Wales – heritage groups urge rethink of planning law reform

2018 SPAB Scholars and 2018 SPAB Fellows announced

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) is pleased to announce its 2018 SPAB Scholars and its 2018 SPAB Fellows.

Posted in Sector NewsBlog | Comments Off on 2018 SPAB Scholars and 2018 SPAB Fellows announced

London’s Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration now out as Better Homes for Local People, to aid resident engagement

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has published Better Homes for Local People, following extensive consultation on the draft Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration to help ensure that regeneration of London’s housing estates happens with resident support and engagement. … Continue reading →

Posted in Sector NewsBlog | Comments Off on London’s Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration now out as Better Homes for Local People, to aid resident engagement

Coastal Communities Fund: round 5 open

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

Funding supporting the economic development of coastal communities is now open as the Coastal Communities Fund Round 5 offers £40 million for spend from April 2019 to end of March 2021. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government … Continue reading →

Posted in Sector NewsBlog | Comments Off on Coastal Communities Fund: round 5 open

CCT Volunteer of the Year Awards announced 

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) has celebrated the outstanding contributions of volunteers at a special event in London, its National Volunteer Day which took place at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel’. image CCT website

Posted in Sector NewsBlog | Comments Off on CCT Volunteer of the Year Awards announced 

Unseen photos from Granick collection of East End London in glorious colour

Posted on 06/03/2018 by IHBC NewsBlog

The BBC has reported on how a recently discovered photo collection by the late photographer David Granick reveals London’s East End in colour, including streets in Stepney, Whitechapel and Spitalfields.

Posted in Sector NewsBlog | Comments Off on Unseen photos from Granick collection of East End London in glorious colour