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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: 21/07/2020
IHBC and partners – from POS and CPRE, to RTPI and RIBA – support LGA-led call to ‘Keep planning local’ following ‘BUILD, BUILD, BUILD’ trope
The IHBC has added its name alongside partners from across England in supporting a call led by the Local Government Association (LGA) to ‘urge the UK Government to keep planning in England local’, debunking ‘Any suggestion that planning is a … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Dezeen’s ‘Mews houses taking advantage of London’s backstreets’
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’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the (city) doorstep’: South Bank’s IBM building gets Grade II listed status
Plans to alter the IBM building on the South Bank have been thrown into doubt after the Government listed the building at Grade II, writes London SE1 News.
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ALGAO UK updates on impact of Covid-19 on LA Archaeology Services
ALGAO:UK has published a rapid survey of members to find out how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the work of archaeological advisors to local authorities (LAs) across the UK.
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MHCLG’s new planning rules to protect cultural heritage
Theatres, concert halls and live music performance venues to be protected according to new planning rules from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG). image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Blackpool Central Pier fire
Some 50 firefighters have been tackling a blaze on Blackpool’s Central Pier.
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CPRE calls for greater green ambition and shares vision for ‘building back better’
CPRE has set out its vision to regenerate the countryside and ourselves – and says the government’s plans make a mockery of its ‘so-called green recovery’. image: for illustration purposes only Open Government Licence v3.0
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National Trust response to Prime Minister’s speech on recovery
The National Trust has responded to the Prime Minister’s speech concerning recovery plans, advocating a ‘build back better’ approach that ‘will only happen if the Government ‘takes this opportunity to think differently, embraces a genuinely holistic approach to recovery and … Continue reading
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Scotland’s good practice COVID-19 guidance for museums, galleries and heritage attractions
New guidance, part of a suite from Scottish Government, is intended for museums, galleries and heritage attractions as they reopen.
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Network Rail launches competition to shape Britain’s future railway stations: Registration ends 11 September
The competition from Network Rail and RIBA Competitions will give architects, engineers and designers the chance to improve the travel experience for the millions of passengers who use Britain’s railway, and leave a lasting legacy on station design, with closing … Continue reading
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Daphne Jackson Fellowships – for research after career breaks – are now available to Arts and Humanities researchers
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced that Daphne Jackson Fellowships – that offer male and female academics the opportunity to return to research following a career break of two years or more when taken for family, caring … Continue reading
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Kick-start nature’s recovery and absorb a third of UK emissions, says Wildlife trust
New report from The Wildlife Trusts shows how investing in nature would reap big dividends in tackling climate crisis.
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‘UK Contractors Declare’ seeks more signatories: Recognising the climate and biodiversity emergency
Founding signatories to UK Contractors Declare – including BAM,Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK, Willmott Dixon – have called for more contractors and builders to recognise and respond to the twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, as buildings and … Continue reading
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