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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: 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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