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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: 10/03/2020
IHBC membership application support update: MATE session in Wales, for a Conservation Officer Group
The IHBC travelled to sunny Usk, Monmouthshire, South Wales on 26 February to deliver a Membership Application Training Event (MATE) to members of a local Conservation Officer Group (COG).
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Don’t forget: IHBC, CARE, RICS, RIAS ICON & more, at GCHT’s ‘Your Career in Conservation… Accreditation’ conference & workshops, Glasgow, 26/03
IHBC, CARE, RICS, RIAS ICON & more, at GCHT’s ‘Your Career in Conservation… Accreditation’ conference & workshops, Glasgow, 26/03
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IHBC at HE’s ‘Traditional Roofs’ conference update, on Wood and more
The IHBC joined exhibitors and advised some of the 150 delegates at the recent Historic England (HE) event on ‘Traditional Roofs Conference: Repair and conservation of traditional roofs’, as HE reported on its research into historic roofs and attendant pressures … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Councillor ‘delighted’ that neighbourhood plan prevails after judicial review over ‘local gap’
Hook’s neighbourhood plan is finally ready to be adopted by Hart District Council (HDC) after a legal challenge from a developer – a challenge over a ‘local gap’ to prevent two settlements from merging – is dismissed, writes the Romsey … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Redruth HAZ high street funding
Redruth town centre could be set to get a welcome boost thanks to millions of pounds to help breathe life into historic buildings, as the Falmouth Packet outlines the town’s ambitions around the Heritage Action Zone (HAZ).
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IHBC’s CPD Boost, out of Context: Conservation of timber buildings – technique, archive, philosophy
The most recent issue of Context, No 162, devoted to the heritage of New Towns offers a peek into an archive of timber conservation history, through the records of the practice of FWB and Mary Charles Chartered Architects, a fascinating … Continue reading
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Council & BPT in conservation partnership: Aberdeenshire Council and North East Scotland Preservation Trust secure SM’s future
A partnership led by Aberdeenshire Council with support from the North East Preservation Trust (NESPT) has secured the future of Tullich Kirk – a nationally-important Scheduled Monument (SM) to the east of Ballater – which has been undergoing a sensitive … Continue reading
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GB’s Bridge maintenance backlog grows a third, with £6.7 billion needed to clear workload
The one-off cost of clearing the total maintenance backlog for the near 72,000 council-managed road bridges in Great Britain (GB) has increased by a third.
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Auditors raise concerns over councils in England spending £6.6bn on property
Councils in England have spent £6.6bn on purchasing commercial property in the past three years, the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed, reports LocalGov, raising concerns on the wider impacts.
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Industry archive broken up and at risk
An historic construction industry archive collection – the Construction Industry Resource Centre Archive (CIRCA) – is being broken up and some is at risk of being lost forever because the volunteers who look after it are running out of time … Continue reading
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New owner wanted! Brandon Station, Suffolk, needs ‘owner who cares’
SAVE Britain’s Heritage is seeking an urgent reprieve for a threatened, empty and forlorn country station – Brandon Station in Suffolk, which served both the RAF and the US Air Force during the second world war – that is crying … Continue reading
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RIBA: Building regulations proposals fail to meet scale of climate challenge
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has responded to the Future Homes Standard consultation on proposed changes to the Building Regulations for new homes, and arguing that the proposed changes do not go far enough and offering recommendation that … Continue reading
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England’s government pledges £500 million to bring back historic rail lines
Pledges of £500 million to bring back historic rail lines have been announced, as investment to drive forward reversal of the Beeching era cuts. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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