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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: 22/01/2021
REMINDER STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR EVIDENCE – Parliamentary Inquiry Open: ‘21st Century Places: Values and benefits’ APPG 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 HESPR pick from £29.1M+ costed works: Coastal council seeks consultants for heritage framework, for 12/02, £25K-£45K.
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 second pick features … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from (the RoI) doorstep’: Monaghan birthplace of Charles Gavan Duffy threatened, as historic links reviewed
Proposals are under consideration to demolish the birthplace of Charles Gavan Duffy – nationalist, Victoria Premier and possible slave trader – in the Republic of Ireland’s (RoI), Monaghan town, reports the Northern Sound.
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PlaceEconomics says: Happy Inauguration Day’, with its ‘baker’s dozen’ of wins for the Biden-Harris Administration AND US preservation-conservation
PlaceEconomics, the US heritage economics advisory consultancy service founded by Donovan Rypkema, has identified ‘a baker’s dozen actions where preservation is not an end in itself, but a means to assist the Biden-Harris administration in reaching their stated goals’.
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New legal protection for England’s ‘contested’ heritage: ‘Retain and explain’ first
England’s Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has announced new laws to protect ‘for historic monuments at risk of removal’ as all historic statues, plaques and other monuments will now require full planning permission to remove’. image: Open … Continue reading
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Ministerial response to BEFS’ call for Cultural Heritage Protection post-Brexit: ‘Environmental’ harm IS ‘Amenity’ harm!
Scottish Ministers have responded to the Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) call to protect cultural heritage post-Brexit, specifying that ‘[E]nvironmental harm’ includes damage to property and impairment of, or interference with, amenities…’.
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MHCLG: ‘Right to Regenerate’ consultation requiring ‘councils and public sector… to sell unused land and assets’ – ends 13/03
England’s Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has announced a consultation on new public rights to require councils and public sector bodies to sell unused land and assets, with comments sought by 13 March. image: Open Government Licence … Continue reading
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New-look THA Bulletin: From Heritage Day 2021 to #HeritageChat
The Heritage Alliance (has launched a ‘new look’ trial bulletin and ‘will be seeking views at a later stage’ with updates and headlines including Heritage Day 2021; Policy Updates; Welcome to the Alliance, #HeritageChat and much more.
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Scottish Government supporting culture throughout the pandemic
The Scottish Government has announced additional funds for grassroots and independent venues.
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CIAT accredited Conservationists eligible to undertake Quinquennial Inspections of churches
The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) has announced that its Accredited Conservationists are now eligible to undertake work as a Quinquennial Inspectors on church buildings. image: for illustration purposes only – Peter Badcock
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LEGO Modular Buildings Collection includes a new addition in Police Station
The LEGO Modular Buildings Collection has a brand-new addition in 10278 Police Station – but how does it compare to the rest of the line-up?
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