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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- 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
Daily Archives: 08/06/2021
#IHBCBrighton2021 welcomes more virtual ‘Heritage MarketPlace’ stalls and learning: Lottery, CIOB Academy, HE, HES, BEFS, ICON, YALE UP, IHBC’s CPP APPG, Energy Savers, DB Wiki, HTN, THA, Hirst & Murphy Associates – offering dedicated virtual sessions from casework, products and practice to BPNs, advocacy, funding priorities and more!
The IHBC is delighted to welcome another round of stall listings to the 2021 Brighton School’s learning-led ‘Heritage MarketPlace’ on 18 June, which offers stallholders access to the IHBC’s School networks, promotion and learning for 6+ months for only c.£100+VAT, … Continue reading
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IHBC’s CPD Circular now out: 2021 School updates Cost-effective cross-sector support, with free sign up/events listings.
The IHBC’s regular CPD Circular is out, offering updates on the best learning opportunities and Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and naturally highlights the IHBC ‘Virtual’ Annual School 2021: Brighton 2021.
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REMINDER: Single Seminar’ options at 17 June School #IHBCBrighton2021 @ £10+VAT: Asset management OR Retrofit OR 21st Century education & training OR Communities and Campaigning!
General practitioners can now book ‘Single Seminar’ delegate options to access new insights into key practice areas covered at the IHBC’s Brighton School on 17 June, for only £10+VAT.
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IHBC seeks input on heritage ‘Construction Slang’ to inform first Wiki listing by 2021 School (#IHBCBrighton2021) MarketPlace Stallholder DBW
The IHBC seeks input on heritage-specific slang etc. to the Wiki-list of slang-style terms ‘frequently used or understood by those working on UK building sites’, listed by School MarketPlace Stallholder at the IHBC’s 2021 Brighton School: Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW).
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Fancy a freebie at the IHBC’s Virtual School? #IHBCBrighton2021 Or just have a session query but can’t attend it live? Ask the best question by 17/06 and get your money back!
Delegates across the IHBC’s 2021 Brighton School #IHBCBrighton2021 on 17-18 June – especially any who can’t attend a live session– should submit questions, queries or observation in advance (by 17 June) as you can win back the School fee if selected … Continue reading
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REMINDER: SAHBG-IHBC Research Award launched: Celebrating the ‘quality of architectural-historical research… in heritage and conservation practice’: Closing 01/07
The IHBC is delighted to announce a new joint venture with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) that celebrates the quality of architectural-historical research produced as private consultants or for public bodies etc., with winners to receive a … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of past week: Building reports as ‘Another developer group slams permitted development rights’
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features a post from a past issue with Building reporting … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: HE and Georgian Group object to plans to demolish GII listed building
Proposals to demolish a Grade 11 listed Bradford building, known as Bowling House, have met with objections from two historical groups Historic England (HE) and the Georgian Group, writes the Yorkshire Post.
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Councils in England funding boost to develop local housing design guide for ‘measures [that] mean the word ‘beauty’ will be prioritised in planning…
A new national design code meaning areas are beautiful, well-designed and locally-led is being tested across 14 areas in England, introducing measures that ‘mean the word ‘beauty’ will be prioritised in planning’. image: IHBC Context – for illustration purposes only
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Europe’s top heritage awards honour 24 exemplary achievements from 18 countries
The 2021 winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards have been announced, with Europe’s top honour going to 24 exemplary achievements from 18 European countries.
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Renewed calls to save Glasgow’s at-risk Egyptian Halls with new charity planned
Conservation experts fighting for the future of a Glasgow’s Egyptian Halls, designed by Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, have announced the establishment of a charity to take forward discussions about restoration.
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The Creation & Restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Animated
An AFP News Agency video explains and visualizes that process, a complex and difficult one in itself. image: AFP on YouTube
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