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- 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
- IHBC issues formal notice to all IHBC Members for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 13/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes Vice President Torsten Haak as Guest Judge for 2025 Student Award: Selecting next ‘Gus Astley’ winner, to receive £500 + Newcastle School place, 18-20 June 2026 13/12/2025
- IHBC Toolbox’s latest Guidance Note update now out: ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC Signpost: DB the Construction Wiki Temporary Structures 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt 13/12/2025
- Government launches call for submissions to UK’s first national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – ‘living Heritage – open to 27/03 13/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse: Spotlight on Heritage Crime 13/12/2025
- UK State of the Trades: a Report on the current UK Trade Landscape 13/12/2025
- RIBA Business Benchmarking Report 2025 issued 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep 2: ‘Europa?Nostra on new Culture Compass for Europe – ‘When Culture wins, Europe wins’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: Accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Morwenna Slade IHBC on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 09/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 09/12/2025
Daily Archives: 05/06/2020
IHBC’s Chair calls on networks to promote 2020 Virtual School: @IHBCtweet, #IHBCVirtualSchool2020 ‘OLD TOWNS | NEW FUTURES’… from a Global Pandemic
As global delegate numbers pass 250, IHBC Chair David McDonald has posted a ‘virtual letter’ to our signed-up followers encouraging the widest network promotion of the IHBC’s 2020 Virtual School: ‘OLD TOWNS | NEW FUTURES’ Reflections and Speculations from a … Continue reading
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IHBC’s newest CPD Circular issued: Includes student research support, with an update call on Hempcrete research from York
The IHBC has issued its latest ‘CPD Circular’, with lockdown-compliant content including the IHBC’s own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) support, ‘IHBC Recognised CPD Providers’ CPD, and announcing a new service to help student projects, starting in the next issue with … Continue reading
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IHBC responds to HE’s Draft Local Authority Strategic Framework
The IHBC has submitted its consultation response to the Historic England (HE) consultation on its Draft Local Authority Strategic Framework.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £41K+ costed works: Council seeks project archaeologist, valued £41K, closing 24 June
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 its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: BMW driver destroys 150 years of local Audenshaw heritage in split second
A BMW driver destroyed 150 years of local Audenshaw heritage when he collided into a popular Tameside monument, The Manc has reported.
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 84: Launch of West Dean College’s arts and crafts experts online
Though face-to-face teaching is suspended, the learning continues and West Dean College of Arts and Conservation has introduced a series of bite-size master tips, studio insights and mini tutorials from the College’s expert line-up of Short Course Tutors on YouTube … Continue reading
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 85: New Culture Commissioner named and Taskforce set up to aid sector recovery from coronavirus
The Culture Secretary has appointed Neil Mendoza as Commissioner for Cultural Recovery and Renewal to support the sector’s recovery from pandemic. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 86: DCMS publishes guidance on searching for archaeological finds in England during COVID-19
Guidance for members of the public (including metal-detectorists) searching for archaeological finds in England during the COVID-19 pandemic published. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 87: £50 million boost to support the recovery of our high streets
The Reopening High Streets Safely Fund will help councils in England introduce a range of safety measures in a move to get people back to work and customers back to the shops. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 88: HES publish six-month action plan in wake of pandemic
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has published a six month Action Plan in response to the impact COVID-19 has had on its business and across Scotland’s wider historic environment sector. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton
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AJ: Historic England boss slams ‘crazy’ retrofit VAT discrepancy
The Architects’ Journal (AJ) has headlined how the chief executive of Historic England characterised the difference between the VAT rate for retrofit and new build as ‘crazy’, in its first virtual AJ100 breakfast event.
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Tycoon’s £1bn flats scheme consent quashed in Whitehall U-turn
Newspaper tycoon Richard Desmond has been forced to suspend ambitious plans to redevelop his former Isle of Dogs printworks site in London with a vast luxury flats scheme. image: for illusration purposes only Kleon3 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
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The SPAB Recruiting a new Chair
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings(SPAB) is recruiting a successor to the Chair from its membership, as current Chairman Iain Boyd come to the end of a six year term.
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