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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: 08/08/2020
IHBC on England’s ‘Planning for the future’: Aspects to be cautiously welcomed but alarm over local plan proposals founded more on legacy of prejudice than power of evidence
While provisionally welcoming [many] aspects of the England’s White Paper consultation on ‘Planning for the future’ (closing 12 weeks from 6 August), the IHBC has registered its serious concern over a ‘worryingly simplistic’ strategy for local plans highlighted by Robert … Continue reading
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IHBC Recognised CPD Provider ESC update for ‘Energy Efficiency for Traditional Buildings’ course dates
Following on from the launch by Welsh company The Environment Study Centre (ESC) of a new on-line course for professionals seeking a qualification in dealing with the retrofitting of older and traditional buildings, programme dates have been released.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £5.6M+ costed works this week: National cultural body calls for PM etc. services, closing 28/08, valued £1.5-£5M
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 features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Scottish capital’s historic observatory set to be transformed into artistic retreat
An historic observatory is set to become a base for international artists to stay in while visiting Scotland’s capital city, reports The National.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: From empty shops to ‘vibrant’ restaurants, as the Lowestoft Masterplan reinvigorates the town
An ambitious masterplan has been unveiled to breathe fresh life into Lowestoft over the next 10 to 15 years, but what does it include, asks The Lowestoft Journal?
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Crowdfunder launched to aid legal challenge bid over Manston airport development consent
A crowdfunder has been launched in a bid to apply for a Judicial Review over the decision to approve a Development Consent Order for Manston airport, reports The Isle of Thanet News.
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Government rules out VAT reduction on domestic work: Could cost the exchequer £6Bn annually
In response to a question asked by Sarah Olney (Richmond Park), Financial secretary Jesse Norman ruled out VAT reduction on residential extensions and alterations in a written statement to the House of Commons, saying this reduction would cost the exchequer … Continue reading
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Trustee vacancies at Architectural Heritage Fund (x2): includes conservation, architectural history skills etc., closing 24 August
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is currently seeking two new trustees to join its Board, with skills sought including conservation, community led regeneration, architecture, architectural history, historic building professional and social investment etc., closing 24 August. image: AHF website
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Hundreds of employers sign up for Construction Leadership Council’s Talent Retention Scheme
Hundreds of construction employers have signed up to support the Construction Leadership Council’s Talent Retention Scheme as it went live on 24 July. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Grand Bequest: Could this new app be the key to saving Edinburgh’s crumbling and at-risk historic buildings?
Grand Bequest aims to make it easier for people who are concerned about a building to join together, crowdfund, buy and restore it. image: Edinburgh Live website (Tom Parnell / Flickr / Creative Commons)
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Suffolk Coast and Heaths: England’s first ‘beauty extension’ since 1991
More estuary shoreline and woodlands have become England’s first extension to an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) in nearly 30 years.
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COP 26: Increasing ambition towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy
COP26 President Alok Sharma made presentation at the fourth Ministerial on Climate Action (MoCA), co-convened by the EU, China and Canada, which was held virtually. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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SCT: Scotland’s DOORS OPEN DAYS 2020 is going digital!
The Scottish Civic Trust reports that Scotland’s biggest free festival of architecture – Doors Open Days 2020 – will present its largest ever digital offering this September, celebrating Scotland’s buildings and stories online, through tours, lectures, DIY learning events and … Continue reading
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