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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: 17/08/2021
REMINDER: Submit your coursework for the IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award by 31 AUGUST to win up to £500 & a place on IHBC’s 2022 Aberdeen School
Following calls from participating courses, the closing date for the IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award is now 31 August, so relevant coursework submitted on ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate – from 2020 OR 2021 may be submitted … Continue reading
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IHBC CPD Signpost: Townscapes – The Value of Social Infrastructure as ‘physical spaces and community facilities’
A Public Policy think tank has called on government to work with local and devolved authorities to better focus, fund and devise a strategy that establishes support for community facilities as a key pillar of the post-Covid recovery agenda.
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IHBC’s research signpost: Design Economy 2021 – on ‘current and future economic, social and environmental’ design values
Design Economy is a resource to help learn more about the current and future economic, social and environmental value of design in the UK.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick: pbctoday on ‘Retrofitting for energy efficiency: PAS 2035’
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 pbctoday on ‘Retrofitting for energy efficiency: PAS 2035’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (granite) doorstep’: Granite-gate… guide to UTG saga and why stone is so important to Aberdeen
The Evening Express reports on the mystery of a missing granite staircase has rocked Aberdeen, with a possible police investigation being launched into how dozens of precious stone slabs ended up on the property of a high profile businessman.
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Appeal: Inspector rejects replacement sculpture for deposed Colston statue
After a Planning Inspector determined that a temporary sculpture on the plinth of the former slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol would fail to preserve the special architectural and historic interest of the Grade II listed monument, the proposal has … Continue reading
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Stronger together – Creative England and Creative Industries Federation have united to form the Creative UK Group
Creative England and Creative Industries Federation have united to form the Creative UK Group We work to connect, support, champion and invest in the UK’s world-leading creative industries.
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RIBA Future Trends July 2021: ‘… architects remain very positive about future workloads’
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published the latest Future Trends survey results, a monthly report of the business and employment trends affecting the architects’ profession, highlighting that ‘… architects remain very positive about future workloads’.
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Highways England locked in yet another bridge infilling row, in South Downs National Park
Highways England has found itself embroiled in yet another row over a planned bridge infilling project as engineers, transport planners and the local authority have all hit out at the proposed infill of a 156-year-old disused rail bridge in the … Continue reading
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Consultation for building safety manager specification, PAS 8673, closes 15/09
The public consultation process for The British Standards Institution (BSI) PAS 8673, a new specification that provides a framework for the competence of building safety managers, is open until 15 September.
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THA’s UK surveys: ‘Diversity, Inclusion & the Heritage Sector’ and ‘Accessibility & Heritage’, closing soon
The Heritage Alliance (THA) has issued two surveys, on ‘Diversity, Inclusion & the Heritage Sector’ closing 6 September, and on ‘Accessibility & Heritage’, closing 28 August.
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The repair team preserving an 18th Century home in Spitalfields: From the BBC
For the first time since it opened for tours forty years ago, Dennis Severs’ 18th Century house in Spitalfields, east London, has been closed to the public but, behind the scenes, a small army has been working to renew the … Continue reading
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