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- 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
- England’s NPPF update: New consultation on proposed reforms and other changes to the planning system, to 10/03 19/12/2025
- AHRC PhD studentships on ‘barriers to creating healthier places’ 19/12/2025
- £2.9m heritage investment for Waterfront regeneration 19/12/2025
- Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey for Archaeology 19/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Costa Carras European Citizens Awards for the Safeguard of Endangered Heritage 2026, entries open to 16/01/2026 19/12/2025
- IHBC welcome SAHGB’s new Colvin Special Award 2025, celebrating editors of The Pevsner Architectural Guides 16/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 16/12/2025
- IHBC updates on ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’: Check out our web hub, with video & feedback, and help reduce damage to both health and heritage 16/12/2025
- IHBC warmly welcomes PCO approval to Petition for Charter 16/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: How to get started in sharing knowledge and expertise on Designing Buildings 16/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Hotspur Press will rise from the ashes as developers issue promise for fire-ravaged mill 16/12/2025
- Videogame to help protect Nottingham Cathedral and other heritage buildings: ‘Pugin’s Revival’ despite ‘structural ‘monsters’’ 16/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse Spotlight: Operational use of Artificial Intelligence 16/12/2025
- Public appointment: Members appointed to Historic Environment Scotland 16/12/2025
- HHBT to continue its work in the Highlands as part of SHBT 16/12/2025
- RIBA responds to Environmental Audit Committee report on sustainable housing growth 16/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’– WMF & EH receive grant for next phase of Coastal Connections Programme 16/12/2025
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Judge backs inspector and Monmouthshire CC over listed mansion replacement slates refusal
A High Court judge has come down on the side of Monmouthshire County Council (CC) and a planning inspector in a row over a couple’s choice of replacement tiles for a grade II* listed mansion.
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Regeneration in London and the media: Inside Out London from the BBC – ‘… too many loopholes for residents faced by estate demolition’!
A BBC Inside Out programme has profiled concerns raised regarding the consultation process for the demolition of Council owned estates in London, described by London Assembly member Sian Berry as ‘A big win but too many loopholes for residents faced … Continue reading
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What is your favourite conservation area? Civic Voice seeks nominations – closing 18 Sept!
You only have until 18 September to nominate your favourite conservation area, as part of the Civic Voice ‘England’s Favourite Conservation Area’ award! image: Stamford CA
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STP’s ‘Funding Finder’ bulletin out – with deadlines!
Scotland’s Towns Partnership (STP) has issued its most recent ‘funding finder’ bulletin, which highlights updates on available funding as well as upcoming deadlines.
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See the ruins of Pompeii like you’ve never seen them before: Through the eyes of a Drone!
The better part of two millennia after its entombment in ash and pumice by Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii ranks as one of Italy’s most popular tourist attractions, and now thanks to technology, entirely new views of Pompeii have also opened up. … Continue reading
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IHBC’s May ‘Council+’: Ideas bear fruit, as early career members ‘reverse mentor’, generating fresh perspectives on your institute’s future plans and structures!
At the meeting of our Council+ last May, early career members of all categories provided fresh perspectives, alternative priorities and more relevant approaches to how the institute can support modern conservation practitioners, as they ‘reverse mentored’ our most senior officers, … Continue reading
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IHBC Scotland at Listed Property Show – Free IHBC CPD & more for members: 27 Oct, Edinburgh (Book ahead for free entry)
IHBC Scotland will host a CPD session (from 3.30 to 4.30) at the Listed Property Show in Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms on 27 October, with free access to the day-long Show for IHBC members who book ahead, while an IHBC stand … Continue reading
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IHBC’s CPD boost from the NT: Interiors – With Chippendale revealed
The National Trust (NT) has launched a permanent online exhibition to highlight the work of Thomas Chippendale, following the Chippendale tercentenary celebrations, offering an opportunity to fresh and enhance knowledge of historic interior detailing and furniture terminology.
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Appleby’s HAZ is in the news thanks to Cumbria Crack…
A traditional building in the Appleby Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) is filming its ‘work in progress’ as part of work grant aided by Historic England, posted on YouTube, as reported by Cumbria Crack!
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IHBC’s international ‘signpost’: UK Government Cultural Protection Fund update
The UK Cultural Protection Fund announced that funding has been provided to a project in the Garmain region of Iraqi Kurdistan, aiming to document and monitor the sites and run educational projects which help to upskill local archaeologists and develop … Continue reading
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The Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning: Update and vote for the people’s choice – closing soon!
Have your say in the winner of the People’s Choice for the prestigious Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning by voting online (closing late September)!
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40,000 new trees for London! Community Tree Planting Grants and £1.5million woodland fund look to make London the world’s first National Park City
The Mayor of London has launched a new £1.5 million fund aiming to increase the current proportion of London’s land area under tree canopy by 10 per cent by 2050, with a view to London being the world’s first National … Continue reading
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‘Inspiring Impact’ awarded £600,000 of National Lottery funding to improve charity impact
The Inspiring Impact programme to offer charities online support, events and flexible grants to spend on understanding and improving their impact has been awarded £600k of Big Lottery Funding.
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V&A Dundee – opening soon: 15 Sept
The V&A Dundee is opening on Saturday 15 September, and ahead of its opening IHBC NewsBlogs reports on some building construction and collection highlights, including spectacular drone footage of work in progress and to completion.
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IHBC London Branch Conference launched and booking open: ‘Creative Conservation: Partnerships and Public Value’, 4 Oct – Places limited and values high!
The IHBC’s London Branch has launched another salvo in its renowned series of IHBC CPD-led conservation conferences, as it explores ‘Creative Conservation: Partnerships and Public Value’ at the Royal College of Physicians, on Thursday 4 October, with leading speakers and … Continue reading
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IHBC’s latest ‘Jobs etc.’ skills review: Specialist areas and skills in demand, from design and project management to regulation and more.
To help profile career opportunities across the conservation and heritage sectors, the IHBC now offers regular reviews of job openings and staff appointments featured in our celebrated – and very cost-effective – ‘Jobs etc.’ service, with many posts still open … Continue reading
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IHBC supports LPOC petition on VAT reductions for LBs: ‘…it is perverse that repairs should be subject to VAT when new development is not’.
The IHBC is calling for signatories to the Listed Property Owners Club (LPOC) petition to the Chancellor for reduced VAT on select listed building (LB) works, with the IHBC’s Chair stating that ‘it is perverse that repairs should be subject … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR top pick from £300K+ costed work this week: ChurchCare seeks IHBC/IOSH Project Manager for St Martin of Tours, Womersley – closing 12/09
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the IHBC Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers from the issue this week featuring a call from … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘heritage from the (international) doorstep’: Ireland’s most expensive house (d. 1902) to be demolished for new-build mansion (d. 2019?) thrice the size.
Walford, a c,1902 house in Dublin’s most sought-after area, Ballsbridge, sold for €58m in 2005 before billionaire Dermot Desmond bought it for €14.25m in 2016, is now to be demolished and replaced by a new-build, as planners say it ‘does … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘IHMO’ signpost 1: ‘What if mothers or teenagers designed our cities?’
An opinion piece in the Guardian by Christine Murray (founder of the Women in Architecture Awards) invites us to consider what our cities would look like if cities reflected their diverse populations, prompted by a recent architectural visualisation of a … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘IHMO’ signpost 2: IHBC 2018 School Friend UAH on contingency plans post-Belfast fire & the sad fate of local heritage
Nikki McVeigh of Ulster Architectural Heritage (UAH), the national amenity society, has criticised the lack of forward planning surrounding the Belfast Bank Buildings Fire, and in an opinion piece in the Belfast Telegraph asks ‘Why the partial destruction of Primark … Continue reading
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Redrock Stockport – 2018 Carbuncle Cup ‘winner’
The 2018 winner of the Carbuncle Cup is Redrock Stockport, a £45m leisure complex and car park designed by BDP for the local council. image: DBW website
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Sharing land value with communities: An open letter of advocacy to England’s SoS for housing etc.
An open letter has been sent to England’s Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, signed by 16 leading campaign organisations from across the political spectrum, from the CPRE to Shelter, calling for … Continue reading
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Accessible consultation: An ‘Easy Read’ version of Scotland’s ‘Culture Strategy’: Closing 19/09!
The Scottish Government has issued an easy read version of the consultation document on the development of a Culture Strategy for Scotland, the consultation on which closes on 19 September.
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IHBC North Branch, & partners, present Ian Hume on the ‘Structural repair of historic buildings’, Carlisle Civic Centre, 4 Oct, £25/day, includes lunch!
IHBC North Branch, Carlisle Building Control?and Cumbria Conservation Officers’ Group, are all delighted to present an exploration of ‘Structural repair of historic buildings’ by Ian Hume, former Head of Conservation Engineering at English Heritage, on 4 October – from 9.30 … Continue reading
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