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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: 18/10/2019
IHBC 2019 Student Awards judge announced: Ben Cowell, Historic Houses DG, to select the Gus Astley Student Awards for 2020 Brighton School presentations… #IHBCBrighton2020
Ben Cowell, Director General of Historic Houses – which represents the nation’s largest collection of independently owned historic houses and gardens – will serve as the guest judge on the 2019 IHBC Gus Astley Student Award submissions, with winners receiving … Continue reading
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Malcolm Payne Group welcomed as new practice on IHBC’s HESPR register of ‘service providers working to the IHBC’s standards’
Malcolm Payne Group has become the latest company to be included on the IHBC’s conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ quality assurance listing, joining more than 40 heritage businesses that enjoy benefits and support services across the IHBC’s commercial conservation network, … Continue reading
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REMINDER PLACES STILL AVAILABLE at the Scottish Listed Property Show – FREE places for members!
The IHBC is delighted to continue its CPD partnership with the Listed Property Owners Club (LPOC), with free places for members at ‘The Scottish Listed Property Show’, in the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh on 26 October 2019, where the IHBC will host a stand (welcoming volunteers to assist) and offer … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £142K+ costed opportunities this week: Scottish THI seeks ‘creative(s)’ in community engagement, closing 28/10
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this week … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the Doorstep’: Banksy graffiti taken off GII listed Yorkshire bridge facing dismantling
Graffiti by Banksy has been taken off a bridge in Hull as the Grade II (GII) listed Scott Street bridge – which made headlines around the globe after the artwork called Draw The Raised Bridge! appeared in January – itself … Continue reading
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More looking ahead to #IHBCBrighton2020: AHF’s first grants to social enterprises & charities to transform town centres and high streets
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) announced the first grant awards through the Transforming Places Through Heritage fund, new funding from the Department of Culture, Digital, Media and Sport focused on reinvigorating England’s high streets and town centres.
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Government Response published: Garden Design and Tourism Report
The government accepts the need for new initiative to boost international visitors, as reported in the Government’s response to the garden design and tourism report. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Charles Jencks architectural historian and critic and founder of Maggie’s cancer charity dies
Charles Jencks, architectural historian and critic and co-founder and director of Maggie’s, has died, at the age of 80 at his home in London.
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Enhancing place-based partnerships in public engagement
A new £500,000 funding opportunity is being made available to support research organisations UK-wide to pilot place-based public engagement partnerships and activities, with UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) ‘Enhancing place-based partnerships in public engagement’, with full bid closing date of … Continue reading
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Scotland’s Green Investment Portfolio: call for projects
The Scottish Government is leading a drive to develop a Green Investment Portfolio with the official call for projects to feature in the Scottish Government’s first Green Investment Portfolio, covering a wide range of areas including: Built Environment Retrofit and … Continue reading
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Secure £500 donation to a charity of your choice by answering THA’s ‘Wellbeing’ survey
The Heritage Alliance (THA), in partnership with Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, has created a survey to help understand how wellbeing is being prioritised within the heritage sector, with Ecclesiastical offering the chance to win a £500 donation to a charity of … Continue reading
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AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Urgency Grants pilot update, closing 31/10/2020
Recognising the fast-moving nature of many of the challenges facing low or middle income countries (LMICs), The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has launched this scheme to provide an accelerated funding outlet for urgent research priorities, closing to new … Continue reading
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The RTPI celebrates 60 years of its Royal Charter
Sixty years ago, the Town Planning Institute (as it was then known) received its Royal Charter, a special mark of distinction limited to bodies pre-eminent in their field.
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