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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: 12/12/2020
IHBC’s new Context looks to the future while making history! Oxford themed and introduced by local MP and new CPP APPG Chair, Layla Moran
The latest issue (no. 166) of the IHBC’s membership journal Context is now out, with historic firsts including a new approach that focusses on the future of an historic city – Oxford – and boasts an introduction by Layla Moran … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £136K costed works: Department seeks research on value of heritage assets, closing 21/12, value £50-100K
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’: Durham’s Whorlton Bridge to close until further notice
A historic County Durham bridge – Grade II, Scheduled, the UK’s oldest road suspension bridge and the earliest surviving structure using an iron chained suspension bridge – is due to close after a condition assessment found it is no longer … Continue reading
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Thousands of councillors call for rethink on planning reforms
Over 2,000 councillors have called on the Government to rethink its planning proposals, warning the changes will lead to an ‘unacceptable loss’ of local democracy and scrutiny. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Mackworth church fire: Grade I listed chapel in Derbyshire ‘destroyed’
A centuries-old village church, All Saints’ Church in Mackworth, Derbyshire, has been ravaged by a huge fire.
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HES & BGS launch volunteer trial for new Building Stone Database: Responses sought by c. 12 /01
British Geological Survey (BGS) and Historic Environment Scotland (HES) have created the Building Stone Database for Scotland (BSDS) – an ‘to define and describe all of the building stones of Scotland’ – and is seeking volunteers to test the portal, … Continue reading
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See Duncan Wilson, HE CEO, on HWGPNFY (S2, E11; 31:12… ), with more on COs etc,, via Youtube
The new ‘Have We Got Planning News For You’ (HWGPNFY: S2 E11) episode features Historic England (HE) CEO Duncan Wilson OBE (from 31:28), and also includes relevant content on Conservation Officers and more, offering NewsBlog readers stimulating and entertaining highlights … Continue reading
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Norman Foster pulls out of climate pact over Saudi airport row
Norman Foster has withdrawn his architecture firm from Architects Declare, lead in an industry commitment on climate change.
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Wildlife Trust launches vision of wildscape to replace bleak Nottingham’s Broadmarsh
Following the collapse of the operators of Nottingham’s Broadmarsh shopping centre, INTU, and the return of the site’s lease to Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, a locally based charity championing wildlife in the city for over 30 years has … Continue reading
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Dissemination of ESPON results among the scientific community – call for early career researchers: Closing from 15/12
The ESPON EGTC is launching a Call for Competition to contract a maximum of 20 early career researchers (PhD and/or Postdoc students) to promote the uptake of ESPON territorial evidence within the scientific community, with the call for competition to … Continue reading
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Don’t forget: HEAN Listed Building Consent Advice consultation closes 21/12
The draft Historic England Advice Note (HEAN) on Listed Building Consent Advice is open to public consultation and closes on Monday 21 December 2020.
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Soc Ant’s ‘Future of Archaeology Manifesto’
The Society of Antiquaries of London (Soc Ants) seeks comments on a new manifesto that ‘proposes a new model [that]… offers a mechanism that will encourage collaborative working across all sectors of the profession, enhancing archaeological research and providing information … Continue reading
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‘The Lord of the Rings’ cast crowdfunding to buy Tolkien’s home and turn it into a literary centre
J.R.R. Tolkien’s house on Northmoor Road, Oxford, where he penned ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, will soon hit the market, so to preserve it for fans and writers, the actors who brought Tolkien’s worlds to film … Continue reading
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