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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: 27/07/2021
Brighton 2021 Day School recordings now out for delegates only; New delegates access session recordings for £10+VAT
Recordings of the main CPD webinar sessions from the Friday IHBC Brighton 2021 Day School(which included Heritage MarketPlace stall sessions, not recorded) are now out EXCLUSIVELY for School delegates – these links should not be circulated – but others can … Continue reading
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REMINDER – IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Awards close 31 JULY: Win £500 and a place on IHBC’s 2022 Aberdeen School with your built environment/heritage coursework
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REMINDER: IHBC update: New SAHBG-IHBC Research Award closing date of 31/07 – Celebrate the ‘quality of architectural-historical research… in heritage and conservation practice’
The IHBC notes the new closing date of 31 July for the joint venture with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) celebrating architectural-historical research produced as private consultants or for public bodies etc., with winners to receive … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick: dezeen on a ‘3D-printed stainless steel bridge in Amsterdam’
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 dezeen on a ‘3D-printed stainless steel bridge in Amsterdam’.
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Covid leaves UK councils with £3bn financial black hole
UK councils face a £3bn black hole in their budgets as they emerge from the pandemic, a BBC investigation into their finances can reveal.
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PLACE Alliance launches ‘THE DESIGN DEFICIT: Design skills and design governance approaches in English local authorities’
Place Alliance has launched a major new report examining design skills and design governance approaches in England’s local planning authorities, funded by the Urban Design Group and supported by the Design Council.
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Chief Executive, Ros Kerslake CBE to leave The Heritage Fund at end of 2021
Ros Kerslake CBE has announced that she will step down from her role as Chief Executive of The National Lottery Heritage Fund at the end of 2021. image: HLF website
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MHCLG publishes Guidance on Partnerships for People and Place: guidance for local expressions of interest
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has published Guidance setting out the aims and objectives of the Partnerships for People and Place pilot and inviting local authorities to submit an expression of interest. image: Open Government Licence … Continue reading
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Picturing England’s High Streets: Last call open for Leicester
Picturing England’s High Streets is a major commission that will see six artists undertaking residencies at high street locations across England, with the Open Calls for the last photographer-in-residence programme, in Leicester, still open. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Heritage Horizon Awards: £50M to five life-changing projects
The Heritage Fund has announced the recipients of its Heritage Horizon Awards as over £50million of funding has been awarded to five transformational projects across the UK.
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Italy to ban cruise ships from Venice to prevent the city from sinking, from August 2021
Large cruise ships are to be banned from the historic centre of Venice from August 2021, according to the Italian government.
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