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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
Daily Archives: 08/09/2018
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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