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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: 30/10/2020
IHBC’s LA conservation capacity research informs England’s Planning White Paper Briefing to MPs & Peers from new ‘CPP APPG’: 48.7% drop since 2009; 6% of LPAS with no advice!
The IHBC has published the results of its own 2020 research into specialist conservation provision in Local Authorities (LAs) in England –revealing a 48.7% fall since 2009 and 6% currently with no access to advice – which will inform the … Continue reading
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IHBC submits comments on BSI’s PAS 2038 – Retrofitting non-domestic properties…: ‘Must stress need for repairs before retrofit’
The IHBC has submitted its response to BSI’s evolving PAS (Publicly Available Specification) 2038 – Retrofitting non-domestic properties for improved energy efficiency – noting that it fails to emphasise the need to carry out appropriate repairs as the vital precursor … Continue reading
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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 HESPR pick this week from £19.2M+ costed works: BC seeks consultancy services, closing 17/11, valued £25-50K
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’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost: Checking on moisture in porous building materials
Technical conservation issues are the subject of Issue 164 of Context, more specifically damp, with Soki Rhee-Duverne explaining that, despite the plethora of techniques for assessing moisture in traditional porous building materials, none is completely effective, offering a rare opportunity … Continue reading
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Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School hotel proposals dismissed by Scottish Ministers
In a significant win for the heritage lobby the Scottish Government dismissed appeals into the proposed redevelopment as a hotel of Thomas Hamilton’s Category A listed 1825 Royal High School on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, with the main report dismissing any … Continue reading
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Changes to planning rules to help unlock development potential in Wales
Changes to the planning policy to allow Welsh councils to compulsory purchase empty houses and vacant land have been announced by the Minister for Housing and Local Government.
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England’s ‘local heritage list’ campaign: call for expressions of interest – £700K, closing 13/11
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has launched a call for expressions of interest for local heritage lists: with £700,000 of funding to councils in 10 English county areas to develop new or updated local lists and the closing … Continue reading
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First 7 Town Deals – worth almost £180M – announced
Communities in 7 areas across England are set to benefit from up to £178.7 million in new Town Deals, with Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool, Darlington, Peterborough, Norwich, Torquay and Warrington are the first of 101 places to be offered a Town Deal. … Continue reading
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RSA report: Social and economic growth stunted by outdated view of heritage, report finds
The heritage sector should focus its growth efforts on telling the stories of more diverse parts of Britain as it reopens following Covid-19, according to a new report from the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce … Continue reading
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