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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
Monthly Archives: August 2021
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (construction) doorstep’: Council approves three new floors for Glasgow’s Radisson Blu hotel
Councillors have approved plans to add three floors with 141 rooms to the Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow, reports Scottish Construction Now.
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Free construction training in England as search for new recruits intensifies
The Skills Centre is offering guaranteed training and job interview opportunities around five sites in the Greater London area, north Kent and West Midlands. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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New report: Rebuilding Volunteering in the Heritage Sector
The Heritage Volunteering Group (HVG) has launched a new report: ‘Creating Capacity 2021: Rebuilding volunteering in the heritage sector post Covid’ which explores the role that volunteers can play in rebuilding the sector.
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HS2 landscape design to restore Midlands heritage hotspot
Landscape designs by HS2 show how an area around the River Cole in Warwickshire, identified as a Heritage Hotspot, can be transformed.
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England’s Heritage Information Access Simplified (HIAS): Making public access to HER data etc. easier
Heritage Information Access Simplified (HIAS) is a programme of interlinked projects designed to simplify and improve public access to heritage data held or generated by Historic England, by Local Authority Historic Environment Records (HER) and by other bodies.
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SPAB’s Old House Project wins Museums + Heritage Award
The SPAB’s Old House Project (OHP) has won the Museums + Heritage Award for Best Restoration or Conservation Project of the Year. image: SPAB website
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Aberdeenshire update: £2M of investment to support regeneration projects
Fourteen local projects aimed at improving communities and places across Aberdeenshire are to share more than £2 million in new funding to help drive economic recovery, improve our town centres and support regeneration activity.
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‘The farm that time forgot’ joins England’s growing list of nature reserves… after 30 years of campaigning
A beauty spot has become England’s 225th National Nature Reserve over 30 years after public campaign to save it.
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IHBC welcomes James Mackintosh Architects to HESPR: IHBC’s register of quality-assured conservation and heritage practices
James Mackintosh Architects is the latest company to be accepted on to the IHBC conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ listing, joining 50 other heritage businesses to benefit from IHBC’s quality assurance.
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IHBC’s CPD boost: On creating an article for DBW – ‘learn more by explaining’
One of the best ways to learn is to explain, as any teacher knows, and creating an article on your area of practice for Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry … Continue reading
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IHBC research signpost: Savills Research 2021 – How well is the planning system responding to the climate crisis? As good as Wales?
Savills latest research, explores the different targets in place across the UK, and considers whether national ambition is translating to local action, while noting that ‘Wales could provide a useful model to follow’. image: for illustration purposes only – Open … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £1M + costed works this week: Parish Council seeks architect for Quinquennial Inspection & repairs advice, closing 10 August
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from a parish council for … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (church) doorstep’: Thou shalt do more jail time for raiding a church!
Burglars who steal from churches, museums or galleries to get tougher sentence as new rules were announced yesterday from the Sentencing Council so those who steal valuables from buildings can expect to face prison more often, reported the Mail Online … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from doorstep’: National Trust for Scotland chief on how organisation is shaking off the past
THE National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is, according to its chief executive Philip Long, ‘very much back in business’, writes The National.
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Highways England could be forced to reverse Cumbria bridge infilling as council orders planning review
Highways England may be forced to reverse the infilling of a 159-year-old masonry arched bridge in Cumbria following a nationwide backlash, as Eden District Council has informed Highways England that it will have to apply for retrospective planning permission to … Continue reading
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MHCLG: Strategy & long-term plan to regenerate high streets in England and beyond
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has led the launch of a strategy and long-term plan to support the evolution of high streets into thriving places to work, visit and live will breathe new life into town … Continue reading
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Historic Environment Scotland recruiting new board Chair, closing 16/08
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is looking to appoint a new chair to its board of Trustees and application date closes on 16 August.
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NHMF update: £40M funding response
The National Heritage Memorial Fund’s (NHMF) COVID-19 Response Fund, to address long term impacts of the pandemic, ‘is open to applications from charities, not-for-profit and public sector organisations over the next two years.
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Feeling the heat? How prepared are our buildings for a changing climate?
The third Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk from the Climate Change Committee has warned that a lack of action on climate adaptation is heightening the danger of financial and societal costs in the future, while the UK Green Building … Continue reading
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IHBC’s CPD boost‘ with added fun: Check out UNESCO’s newly Inscribed properties (2021) and more: 34+
You can now review all 34 Properties Newly Inscribed by UNESCO for 2020/21, from Peru’s Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex to the The Great Spa Towns of Europe (including Bath and Baden-Baden).
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IHBC’s new CPD Circular now out: Accessible cross-sector support, with free sign up/events listings!
The new issue of the IHBC’s regular and free CPD Circular has been posted, offering members and our networks accessible and current information on learning opportunities and Continuing Professional Development (CPD), with free postings for anyone holding relevant events too!
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New Closing Date for IHBC’s Student Awards: Submit your coursework by 31 AUGUST to win up to £500 & a place on IHBC’s 2022 Aberdeen School
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DBW features IHBC’s ‘Urban Design’ themed journal article: Alvarez on ‘Understanding Context’
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry knowledge base’ – has featured on its Newsletter Laura Alvarez (Senior Principal Urban Design and Conservation Officer at Nottingham City Council) on ‘Understanding Context’, … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick: ‘Life After Demolition… Designing for Deconstruction’, from ArchDaily
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 ArchDaily on ‘Life After Demolition… Designing for Deconstruction’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: BLM – Stroud statues and street names reviewed
A review of monuments, buildings and street names has been launched by Stroud District Council to ensure they represent Stroud’s inclusive values in light of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and the attention it brought to on-going racism in … Continue reading
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