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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: 14/12/2021
IHBC’s new ‘HESPR News’ feature update: Director’s selection for this month, from RICS review to Swindon’s ‘Flying Saucer’
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, while the Director’s occasional news listing feature this week offers its members links to updates from … Continue reading
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IHBC’s next ‘Scoop for the School’ for 2022: Councillors approve ‘transformative’ regeneration of Aberdeen city centre, market and beachfront
The pedestrianisation of Union Street Central, the creation of a new city market, and the revitalisation of the beach area, with plans for a pier, new green hub, and a state-of-the-art sports area have been approved by Aberdeen City Council, … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: Local Area Guidance, The Heritage Fund’s ‘priority outcome’
The Heritage Fund offers guidance designed to help people meet its priority outcome: the local area.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’: Archdaily on ‘5 Art Movements that Influenced Architecture’
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 highlighting ‘5 Art Movements that Influenced Architecture’ alongside our … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Charity’s doorstep’: Preservation charity shut down after trustees found using funds for personal benefit
Trustees at the Manor Building Preservation Trust used the charity’s funds to live in a mansion rent-free, to buy high-end cars and give each other salaries of over £128,000, Civil Society reports via the Charity Commission.
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Gove ‘a bit of a catch’ for housing ministry, says former chief architect to BD
Michael Gove is ‘a bit of a catch’ for the renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the former chief architect has said, as Gove’s early planning decisions suggest ‘beauty remains high on new secretary of state’s agenda’. image: … Continue reading
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BRE report finds poor housing is costing NHS £1.4bn a year
A new BRE report – ‘The Cost of Poor Housing in England’ – quantifies the cost burden to the NHS caused by hazards arising from poor quality homes in England, and reveals that 2.6 million homes in England – 11% … Continue reading
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DCMS/AHRC: Research captures and enhances value of UK culture and heritage
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will support a new study to measure the value of UK culture and heritage.
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Trust in local government stayed strong during pandemic, researchers find
The public placed more trust in local authorities than national government in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the findings of a new survey reported by Local Gov. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton
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AHF publishes Annual Review 2020/21
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) Annual Review details some of its work this year delivering strategic objectives while providing an insight into a number of AHF supported projects across the UK.
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When the Colosseum in Rome Became the Home of Hundreds of Exotic Plant Species
The Colosseum is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy, and thus one of the most popular tourist attractions in all of Europe. But the nature of its appeal to its many visitors has changed over the centuries. … Continue reading
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