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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: 21/09/2021
IHBC’s SE Branch – and 2020 Brighton School hosts – launches AGM and conference: In-person AND digital access, on ‘Seaside Towns… the Hastings approach’, 15/10
The IHBC’s South East (SE) Branch is hosting its own annual conference school on ‘Seaside Towns… the Hastings approach to revitalising historic coastal towns’ to in-person and digital audiences, with all welcome, on 15 October and in Hastings, with digital … Continue reading
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REMINDER: IHBC@COP26? Because ‘Conserving our Places Conserves our Planet’ – Join IHBC’s globally accessible virtual built and historic environment ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’, #IHBCHelpdesk #CultureCOP26 – open 31/10 to 12/11
The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) – the UK’s professional body for built and historic environment conservation – will host a virtual IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ across the COP26 programme, offering IHBC and partners’ advice and learning to the global network on … Continue reading
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REMINDER – New IHBC ‘CPD Priority’ programme virtual event: Ian Hume on ‘Conservation Engineering’, 28-29 September, from £20 for members, with bursaries too!
A new on-line IHBC ‘CPD Priority programme’ event on ‘Conservation Engineering’ with Ian Hume is planned for 28-29 September, with fees from £20.
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IHBC’s CPD signpost from URBACT: Governing commons, is it even possible?
Four URBACT cities share experiences in commons governance, looking at what mechanisms help city authorities work better with communities: Amsterdam Gda?sk Naples Turin. image: URBACT website
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick: HESPR DSA on Urban Vision’s ‘Town and Parish Council Planning Service’
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 in-house HESPR ‘Special Interest News’ our HESPR DSA Dave … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Newark MP Robert Jenrick removed in cabinet reshuffle
NottinghamshireLive has reported on how the Newark MP Robert Jenrick has been removed as Housing Secretary in the recent cabinet reshuffle. image: for illustration purposes only – Open government Licence v3.0
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AHF’s EDI commitments: So ‘historic buildings.. evolve and be places that still matter to us’
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has published its ‘commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)’… ‘To enable historic buildings to evolve and be places that still matter to us’.
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Repair plan to save Leith’s historic Victoria Swing Bridge
A major investment is to be made to save Leith’s historic Victoria Swing Bridge in Edinburgh.
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Retrofit internal wall insultation: best practice
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) has issues guidance for designers, surveyors, project managers and installers about retrofit internal wall insulation.
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National Heritage Memorial Fund Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) have announced the publication of the 2020-21 Annual Report and Accounts for the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
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LI appoints new chief executive Sue Morgan to lead the next phase of its evolution
The Landscape Institute (LI) has announced the appointment of its new permanent chief executive, Sue Morgan. image: LI website
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Winners of National Highways competition to help wipe out graffiti are revealed
Winners of National Highways competition to help wipe out graffiti have been revealed, with wall-climbing robots, acoustic sensors and laser technology among the pioneering ideas which could help write off graffiti from alongside National Highways roads in the future. image: … Continue reading
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