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- Bursaries for #IHBCNewcastle2026 open to 13/04, 18-20 June: ‘Submit now to be next on the list!’ 17/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 17/02/2026
- IHBC President’s ‘Members only’ Invitation to next Virtual Council: Online, 8 April 2026, from 4.30pm – Scoping ‘Investigation’ of conservation in local government, with a call for suggestions etc. 17/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 17/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: Great Expectations Conference update by the National Churches Trust – Recordings now available 17/02/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s NewsBlog on ‘BOOKING OPEN for IHBC’s Full School (June 18-20): #IHBCNewcastle2026’ 17/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Heritage charity to change name after sale of 20,000-acre estate 17/02/2026
- National Heritage Emergency declared by Stoke-on-Trent – ‘first for a UK City’ – as Potteries needs £325Mn investment over the next decade 17/02/2026
- Nominations open for the Plowden Medal Conservation Award 2026, to 15/05 17/02/2026
- LPOC announces Listed & Modern Architectural Awards 2026 17/02/2026
- The Heritage Fund on ‘Putting people’s memories at the heart of heritage-inspired regeneration’ – ‘Felt experience’ 17/02/2026
- Headline findings of Official Statistics from the Community Life Survey 2024/25 released 10 December 2025 17/02/2026
- Scottish Infrastructure Strategy 2027-2037 Consultation now out 17/02/2026
- IHBC President’s ‘Members only’ Invitation to next Virtual Council: Online, 8 April 2026, from 4.30pm – Scoping ‘Investigation’ of conservation in local government, with a call for suggestions etc. 13/02/2026
- IHBC welcomes National Apprenticeship Week: to 15/02 13/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 13/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 13/02/2026
- IHBC is planning for growth, so grow with us by volunteering, with our Committees, Boards and Branches, or Panels, Groups and more as suits – just let us know! 13/02/2026
- IHBC ‘Management’ Signpost: Managing Surplus Government Property, guidance from the Government 13/02/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £64K of weekly works: UK heritage body seeks Chief Exec, to 28/02 13/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the ‘super-rich’ doorstep’: Britain’s building standards so bad that even super-rich face housing misery… 13/02/2026
- Southbank now listed: The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery and associated terraced walkways and stairs 13/02/2026
- Iconic canals to be better protected with £6.5 million investment- Funding to support repair, maintenance & long-term projects 13/02/2026
- 2026 SPAB Fellows and Scholars announced 13/02/2026
- New £11.5Mn fund to help England’s charities and councils support local communities 13/02/2026
Daily Archives: 14/08/2020
IHBC’s latest ‘CPD Circular’ now out! Features include Europe’s largest heritage trade show Denkmal
The IHBC has issued its latest ‘CPD Circular’, with post-lockdown event planning content that includes the IHBC’s own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) support, the ‘IHBC Recognised CPD Providers’ CPD service, as well as Denkmal, one of Europe’s largest trade shows … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Don’t forget’: England’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage: Applications end 17/08
IHBC members are reminded that applications to the Heritage Fund’s £92m Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage, which offers grants from £10,000 to £3million, close on 17 August.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week: Ulster CC competition for civic building, closing 04/09
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’: Guildford Casino nightclub development unanimously rejected, labelled ‘monstrous carbuncle’
The proposal for the large quadrant development at the Guildford Casino nightclub site – included 267 student bedrooms and a rooftop terrace – has been unanimously rejected by Guildford Borough Council (GBC), reports Surrey Live.
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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from Ireland: Pevsner, pubs, and the origins of the ‘Buildings of Ireland’
You may own ‘a Pevsner’ or two, or more, to help you with your architectural conservation and history, but did you know that a lunch with Nikolaus Pevsner in a Westminster pub in the spring of 1967 led to the … Continue reading
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AHF: Transformational Project Grant awards ‘get High Streets and Town Centres in England Thriving’
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has announced the second round of Transformational Project Grants to charities and social enterprises with fresh, imaginative ideas for revitalising their local high streets and town centres in England. image: AHF website
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Government publishes UCL-led research on permitted development housing quality: It’s ‘worse’
Research led by Bartlett School of Planning (UCL) academics, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), concludes that new housing created through permitted development rights in England since 2013 is more likely to be characterised by … Continue reading
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Councils across England ‘lack essential safeguards to prevent corruption in the planning process’: Transparency International UK
A new report by Transparency International UK, ‘Permission Accomplished’, published in July 2020, indicates that Councils across England lack essential safeguards to prevent corruption in the planning process.
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Campaigners Call for Guarantees For Green Home Grant Cavity Wall Installations
The Green Homes Grant scheme which offers vouchers for energy efficiency work such as cavity wall insulation launches in September, but campaigners are stressing the importance of the quality of the work being guaranteed.
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Consumer campaign launched to help boost construction industry recovery: TrustMark’s ‘Work Safe. Safe Work’
New guidance is being issued by Trustmark to homeowners for when they have tradespeople carry out work in their homes, ‘The Work Safe. Safe Work’ campaign.
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A plan for nature in the north of England: ‘Natural Assets North’
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published its report ‘A plan for nature in the north of England: Natural Assets North final report’, which argues that ‘Reversing the underinvestment and under-valuation of nature will increase the resilience of … Continue reading
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NI’s HED launches programme promoting careers in heritage skills: Open to 28/08
Northern Ireland’s (NI) Department for Communities’ Historic Environment Division (HED), in partnership with The Prince’s Foundation, have launched the NI Heritage Skills Programme, with applications open until 28 August.
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Don’t demolish old buildings, urge architects to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), via the BBC
Footage of buildings being flattened in a noisy demolition may be a popular feature of local TV news reports, but architects say such structures should be protected – to fight climate change, reports the BBC on recent evidence given to … Continue reading
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Dunston Staiths: BBC on a symbol of the past fighting for its future, courtesy locals, BPTs, and more
Dunston Staiths is a pier-like runway that was used to tip countless millions of tons of coal into the cargo holds of the huge ships on the River Tyne below, and it’s recue is the focus of a BBC report … Continue reading
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