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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
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Daily Archives: 18/07/2020
IHBC Chair co-signs letter promoting heritage alongside arts for Government support, in advance of £1.57Bn fund: ‘Heritage is not just old stuff’
IHBC Chair David McDonald co-signed a letter from The Heritage Alliance (THA) to the Telegraph – published on 4 July – highlighting the need to include heritage as well as the arts in financial assistance from Government, noting that ‘Heritage … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Conservation Wiki host DBW bares all, with ‘Mistakes we will admit to’: Will you?
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – the construction industry knowledge base and host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – has ‘listed a few classic mistakes’ it admits to having ‘witnessed’’, and calls for more!
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £4.1M+ costed works: Welsh council seeks partner for listed venue refurb, closing 16 July, valued £370K, closing 3/08
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 (country) doorstep’: West Wellow couple ‘shocked’ by unexpected new farm building
A couple have been left ‘flabbergasted’ after a large agricultural building was unexpectedly erected a few metres from their house, reports the BBC.
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Chancellor announces £2bn Green Homes Grant, part of £3Bn package
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a new £2bn Green Homes Grant to retrofit homes and buildings across the country, part of a £3bn green investment package.
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Ulster Architectural Heritage secures funding for Hands-On Heritage Project
Ulster Architectural Heritage (UAH) is delighted to announce support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of for an exciting new 3 year project, ‘Hands-On Heritage’. image: UAH
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CITB survey on ‘Net Zero: what does it mean for you?’
CITB is working with government to understand the support that industry needs to decarbonise the built environment and we will publish our findings and recommendations later in the year.
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Art Fund’s ‘Respond and reimagine’ help responses to Covid-19 – next round closes 17 August
The Art Fund’s ‘Respond and reimagine’ grants – which offer funding from £10,000 to £50,000 – aim to help museums, galleries and cultural organisations respond to immediate challenges connected to the Covid-19 crisis, with the next round closing on 17 … Continue reading
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Green Alliance: Urgent revision of planned UK infrastructure projects needed to achieve green recovery – put ‘people, climate and nature at its heart.’
In a new report published today, the independent environmental think-tank Green Alliance sets out a vision for the UK’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic that puts people, climate and nature at its heart.
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AHRC appointment to Advisory Board 2020/2021: EOI deadline 28 August
The Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced individuals to join its Advisory Board in September 2020 or September 2021.
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HES publishes Policy and Guidance for the reopening of its historic properties to support heritage sector recovery
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has published Policy and Guidance for the reopening of the properties in its care, as the organisation announced plans for the phased reopening of some of Scotland’s most iconic historic attractions, including Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle … Continue reading
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New research shows £5.5bn fund needed to level up access to urban green space as part of UK’s green recovery
As the Prime Minister set out his ambition for the country’s recovery in the West Midlands last week, the National Trust, the Mayor of the West Midlands, Sustrans, Create Streets and local council leaders have written to him urging a … Continue reading
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The European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards 2021 Open for Submissions: Deadline 1 October 2020
Europa Nostra is now calling for entries for the 2021 Awards – with the UK eligible for all the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards this year, including the second and final year of the Ilucidare prizes – with … Continue reading
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Biggest prehistoric monument in UK discovered just a stone’s throw away from Stonehenge
What may be the largest prehistoric monument in the entire United Kingdom has been uncovered, and it’s just a stone’s throw away from Stonehenge.
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