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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: 03/01/2020
IHBC’s suggestion for your New Year resolution: Become an author for Conservation Wiki on DBW!
Why not extend the reach of your skills, knowledge and experience in 2020 by contributing to Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) and the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki, and offer the 10,000 registered users – and many more viewers – from across the … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘New Towns, New Year’ Quiz… out of Context
At this seasonal time of year, why not test your knowledge on New Towns, using the latest issue of Context, No 162; with the answers to be published in the next issue of the IHBC NewsBlogs (no prizes, just for … Continue reading
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IHBC consultation on Corporate Plan 2020-25 (‘CP25’) ‘Stage 1’ scoping – First responses call extended to January 6
IHBC’s members and prospective members are asked to study, scrutinise and feed back on the IHBC’s evolving Corporate Plan for 2020-25 – called CP25 – and let us know what we need to add, change or develop in the forward plans for … Continue reading
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Give someone their fondest memories for 2020: #IHBCMarshAwards nominations now open for ‘retired IHBC members’ and/or ‘successful learners’, closing 29/02/20
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Christian Trust, has entered its successful fifth year with the launch of the two 2020 Awards – one celebrating civic contributions of retired IHBC members, and one for successful learning in … Continue reading
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More looking ahead to #IHBCBrighton2020 and ‘OLD TOWNS : NEW FUTURES’: ‘High streets face a bleak future without rethinking regeneration strategies’
Reflecting issues that will be encountered across the institute’s June 2020 Brighton School, on ‘OLD TOWNS : NEW FUTURES’, think tank Centre for Cities argues that, as many British High Streets face a bleak future, and policymakers fail to identify … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £300K+ costed opportunities this week: NI DC seeks PQQ applications for Visitor Centre plans, valued £276K, closing 20/01/2020
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 2020 CPD boost… out of Context: Displacement and the first generation of post-war new towns
Displacement may not be a familiar headline in conservation circles, but the latest issue of Context, No 162, themed around new towns, includes Michael Asselmeyer’s important exploration of post-war new towns in Germany and how the arrival of millions of … Continue reading
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Lewisham Council investigating after Noah’s Ark pub in Deptford demolished without permission
Lewisham Council stated that ‘planning permission had not been granted for the demolition of the building’ and that it is ‘a criminal offence to demolish a building in a conservation area.’
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Competition: GII National Picture Theatre, Hull, restoration, closing 17/01
Hull City Council is seeking a design team to conserve and restore a ruined Grade II-listed former cinema, with applications closing 17 January. image: Hull Live
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Aberdeenshire’s Design Awards (AALDA 2020) – Closing date extended to 12 January for select categories
The closing date for submissions to the Aberdeenshire Architectural and Landscape Design Awards 2020 (AALDA 2020) categories of ‘Innovative Solutions to Housing Need’ and ‘Building Communities for the Future’ has been extended to 12 January 2020.
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World Monuments Fund Announces 2020 World Monuments Watch
From iconic monuments to sites of social justice, the 2020 World Monuments Watch includes 25 sites that marry great historical significance with contemporary social impact, including the Bennerley Viaduct in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
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RTPI welcomes the new Government and calls for resources for local authority planners
The chief executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has congratulated the Conservative Party on its victory in the General Election and has called on Boris Johnson’s incoming government to ensure local planning authorities are adequately resourced to deliver … Continue reading
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