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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: 18/12/2020
New APPG Parliamentary Inquiry Christmas update: ‘21st Century Places: Values and benefits’ call for evidence closes 29 January
Westminster’s new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ‘Conservation, Places and People’ (CPP APPG), chaired by Layla Moran MP and with the IHBC as its Secretariat, has launched its first Inquiry into ‘21st Century Places – Values & Benefits‘, a wide-ranging … Continue reading
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IHBC’s new CREATIVE Conservation Fund absorbs Gus Astley Memorial Fund: Supporting Student Awards as programme ‘centrepiece’
The IHBC is delighted to announce that the remaining resources in the Gus Astley Memorial Fund have been transferred by its trustees to the IHBC’s new CREATIVE Conservation Fund, where it will continue its to support the IHBC’s Annual Gus Astley Student … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £500M costed works: Archaeology body seeks support for Welsh project, closing 4 January 2021, value £5-6K
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’: Excelsior – The tunnel near Plymouth with a nuclear secret
For years, there have been rumours whispered around Plymouth and Cornwall about so-called ‘nuclear tunnels’ that exist beneath the Tamar Valley, reports The Plymouth Herald.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Refusal in store for Harris Park, Preston, LB proposal
Eden Grove Investment Properties’ plan to convert listed buildings (LB) and introduce new houses at the historic Garstang Road site looks set to meet with disappointment at Preston’s planning committee, writes The Preston Hub.
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LGA’s etc. ‘Return to Planning’ scheme, for planners and more, seeks LA sign up
Return to Work – Planning seeks Local Authority (LA) sign up to this return to work scheme – developed by the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Government Equalities Office (GEO) – offering free support for people with experience in … Continue reading
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Scotland’s Digital Strategy for Planning
Scotland’s Digital Strategy for Planning strategy defines a long-term strategic direction for how Scotland’s planning system will digitally transform, embracing the opportunities new digital technologies and data present.
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RTPI on ‘Mental health and town planning: Building in resilience’
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has published a report entitled ‘Mental health and town planning: Building in resilience’, focussed primarily on RTPI members.
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Specialist insurer launches the ‘Ecclesiastical Heritage Barometer 2020’
Specialist heritage insurer Ecclesiastical has launched ‘the Heritage Barometer’ 2020 to help heritage organisations consider the risks and opportunities of embracing technology.
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UK’s first National Infrastructure Strategy – thoughts on ‘bold plans for a renaissance’, including board-level Design Champions
In tandem with the Spending Review, the UK Government released the National Infrastructure Strategy (the NIS), setting out its plans to deliver ‘an infrastructure revolution’ that included the requirement that all infrastructure projects have a board-level Design Champion, while NewsBlog … Continue reading
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CCN report argues for stronger collaboration between councils to fill the strategic planning void
Stronger collaboration between councils, health bodies, and business could set out ambitious visions for housing and economic growth in county areas, filling the strategic planning void if the duty to co-operate is axed, a new report commissioned by the County … Continue reading
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Architects Declare offers olive branch to ZHA and Fosters after walk-outs
Statement of regret follows high-profile withdrawals from climate pledge. Architects Declare has made a peace offering to Zaha Hadid Architects and Foster & Partners after they pulled out of the climate commitment signed by more than 1,000 practices.
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Association of Detectorists says ‘Detectorists Foundation’ aims to become an Institute
The Association of Detectorists is aiming to become an Institute, a ‘Community Interest Company’ planned with an ‘asset lock’ to the proposed Charity ‘The Detectorists Foundation’’.
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