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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 09/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: DB on IHBC’s ‘… From Crafts in crisis to rubbish in retrofit’… ‘5 commitments to help heritage skills in conservation’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Three reasons not to demolish Edinburgh’s Argyle House – by architect Malcolm Fraser 09/12/2025
- Welsh Government Flexible Skills Programme (FSP) 09/12/2025
- First Session of the World Heritage APPG held on November 5 2025 09/12/2025
- RIBA responds to Autumn Budget 2025 09/12/2025
- Consultation: England’s Building Control charges, notices and certificates, to 25/01 09/12/2025
- RIBA & partners call for raise the age of eligibility for Level 7 apprenticeship funding 09/12/2025
- BEFS Planning Forward Event Outcomes Report published 09/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’ (Compass 1): ‘A Culture Compass for Europe’ 09/12/2025
- 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 05/12/2025
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Daily Archives: 07/11/2020
IHBC formally issues 2020 AGM details for 3 December: Programme from 5.30pm – Griff Rhys Jones, School updates etc. – voting from 6pm (IHBC members only; BOOKING ESSENTIAL)
The IHBC has issued notices and exclusive invitations to all categories of IHBC members for the 2020 AGM – on 3 December, 2020 – including a free CPD programme from 5.30pm with filmed welcomes and updates from Griff Rhys Jones … Continue reading
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IHBC responds to England’s Planning for the Future White Paper: Build on planning’s many strengths; improve by simplification, not redesign
The IHBC has submitted its comprehensive response to England’s Planning for the Future White Paper, highlighting that the planning system may need reform and simplification but not complete redesign, and that a more dynamic system for local plans, involving frequent … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £564K+ costed works: call for architectural services linked to affordable homes in Wales, closing 16/11, 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 features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Croydon planners save historic Addiscombe house – twice
Addiscombe residents are preparing themselves for a renewed battle to save an historic, landmark house in their neighbourhood after the council’s planning department ‘first refused planning permission to the building’s owners to convert the house into flats, and today refused … Continue reading
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Two Georgian four-storey Chelsea town houses collapse under redevelopment
Two four-storey town houses worth millions of pounds have collapsed in west London while being redeveloped.
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HES unveils latest COVID impact results
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has published the latest results of a follow up survey scoping the impacts of COVID-19 on the country’s historic environment sector.
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IHBC’s IMHO, from ICE in NI: A step closer to an Infrastructure Advisory Body for Northern Ireland
Jenny Green, Director for Northern Ireland at The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), has explored a new report by the Ministerial Advisory Panel on Infrastructure, on which she sits.
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Parliamentary Committee: Public survey on England’s planning system: Closing 11/11
The House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has asked the public to take part in a survey on the planning system in England and the government’s proposed reforms to it, which is open until midnight Wednesday 11 … Continue reading
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Don’t forget: Culture x Climate 2020: ‘heritage-based climate action’ this November
Culture x Climate 2020 is a virtual global forum for arts, culture and heritage-based climate action running to the end of November 2020.
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West Dean College: Open call for maker-in-residence, closing 29/11
West Dean College of Arts & Conservation is looking for an artist-maker to be its Maker-in-Residence for 2021, with artists with any skills considered, including stone working, carving and lettercutting, and with a closing date of 29 November. image: West … Continue reading
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One of Britain’s last AA telephone boxes saved
There is nothing John Bell likes more than a drive in the countryside, especially on the rural roads of Wales and it is there he came across AA Box 161 – a reminder of decades past when mobile phones and … Continue reading
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