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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
- IHBC joins 33 leading organisations calling for £6.8M in urgent funding to support Planning Schools 10/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 10/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Management’ signpost): AJ on legal challenge to Barbican demolition… which ‘can proceed’ 10/10/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments… to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’ 10/10/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 10/10/2025
- £214m new funding for Welsh communities to improve neighbourhoods and restore pride 10/10/2025
- RICS calls for expressions of interest for pilot programmes of new professional pathways 10/10/2025
- RTPI launches five-year strategy to elevate planning: Empower 2030 10/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Donovan Rypkema & Heritage Strategies International seek input on ‘measuring in Arts, Culture, and Heritage’ 10/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s CPD Blog from #IHBCShrewsbury2025: Some ‘Academic Reflections on the IHBC Annual School… and participation’ from Dr Alison McCandlish IHBC, University of Glasgow 07/10/2025
Daily Archives: 27/10/2020
REMINDER: IHBC supports CIOB’s ‘Future Skills for Traditional Buildings’: 05 November, online
The IHBC is co-sponsoring the ‘Future Skills for Traditional Buildings’ virtual conference from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) on 5 November, with speakers to include IHBC members Rory Cullen and John Edwards, and with IHBC officers hosting a digital … Continue reading
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IHBC’s MATE update & recap for NewsBlog readers, from our Yorkshire Branch
The IHBC’s Professional Development Officer Ramona Usher has notched up another successful MATE with the Yorkshire Branch, again with positive feedback from delegates: friendly, approachable, personable and helpful and also demystifying!
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Queen’s birthday honours list includes Purcell (HESPR company) partner and IHBC Member Jane Kennedy
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with notices from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features Building’s … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: £800K scheme to ‘transform’ Longton’s historic town centre buildings
The regeneration project in Longton, repairing and restoring historic town centre buildings backed by Historic England and Stoke-on-Trent City Council, follows a similar project in Stoke, reports the Stoke on Trent News.
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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from the Isle of Wight, via Ireland: Walled kitchen gardens – use and history
If you need to know more about the challenges of researching and understanding historic parks and gardens Issue 163 of Context, the IHBC’s member journal, Helen Thomas writes about the study and use of historic kitchen gardens by following a … Continue reading
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Power to Change report: Community ownership key to revival of high streets’ empty buildings
The Impact of Community Businesses on People is a new report from Power to Change – an independent charitable trust for community businesses in England – that urges Councils to help local communities take ownership of empty buildings in order … Continue reading
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Protecting Scotland’s marine environment
The Scottish Government has announced a new deep sea Marine Protected Area to be established in Scotland. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton
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Pride in place: RSA Heritage Index 2020 now out –How local heritage can unlock a better future
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has published its Heritage Index – ‘Pride in Place’ – for 2020, a unique tool designed to support data-led decision making on heritage at the local level.
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Scotland’s draft Infrastructure Investment Plan, closing 19/11
The Consultation on the Scotland’s Draft Infrastructure Investment Plan closes 19 Nov 2020, as it sets out to offer ‘a clear vision… to support and enable an inclusive net zero emissions economy.
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THA launches free webinars: ‘Heritage Dialogues’
The Heritage Alliance (THA) has announced the launch of a new series of free webinars exploring ‘important, complex and engaging heritage topics… for heritage professionals’.
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IHBC’s IMHO: Solving the town centre regeneration puzzle – ‘take stock and re-establish… USP’ with a new roadmap
The new Use Classes Order has opened the door to the more rapid re-configuration of commercial premises within town centres, but ‘Now more than ever, towns need to take stock and re-establish their USP’ – their Unique ‘Selling’ Point – … Continue reading
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