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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: February 2022
IHBC’s HESPR pick from £47.9K+ works this week: Council seeks team for Town Centre Plan, closing 15/03, valued c.£50K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from a for team to prepare a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (council) doorstep’: Derelict Stoke-on-Trent market could become international food hall run by refugees
A derelict Stoke-on-Trent market could become international food hall – run by refugees – according to plans being drawn up for Burslem’s crumbling 125-year-old indoor market, reports Stoke on Trent Live. image: for illustration purposes only North side of Market … Continue reading
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England’s National Apprenticeship Week 2022, Build the Future, 7-13 Feb
The 15th annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships, National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), will be take place from 7-13 February 2022, with the theme ‘Build the future’.
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86% of builders call for industry to be licensed, says FMB
Small, local builders, who are at the heart of our communities, are crying out for the UK Government to introduce measures to curb rogue traders and keep consumers safe, says The Federation of Master Builders (FMB). image: for illustration purposes … Continue reading
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Storm Malik: Residents near Glasgow’s Trinity Tower evacuated
People living near the landmark Trinity building tower in the Park Circus area of the west end of Glasgow, fear they could be out of their homes for months, after being evacuated at the weekend over safety fears. image: Gordon … Continue reading
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Charity Commission plans to start registration process for 35,000 churches
The Charity Commission is working with the Church of England on plans to register 35,000 church charities over the next decade. image: for illustration purposes only – P Badcock
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Victorian Society says: ‘Local Listing projects – Get involved to save your local heritage buildings’
England’s Build Back Better initiative allocated funding to 22 local councils to develop ‘local heritage asset lists’, and The Victorian Society’s Newsletter is calling on members and networks to ‘get involved’.
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Shetland Space Centre objection withdrawn by HES
An objection from Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to plans for the proposed Shetland Space Centre has been withdrawn. image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaxaVord_Spaceport#/ media/File:Lamba_Nessfrom_above_Norwick_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1458380.jpg
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IHBC Technical Panel highlights foam insulation threats as works funded by official green homes grants render 250K homes worthless
The Residential Property Surveyors Association (RPSA) has said there may be as many as 250,000 homes with spray foam insulation in the loft, and IHBC Technical Panel lead John Edwards highlights how the problem, at last, ‘is now in the … Continue reading
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REMINDER: IHBC looks to the future with new ‘Affiliate’ arrangements: Improved support for all, and ONLY the name changes for those seeking status quo
The IHBC Board’s call to upgrade the Affiliate category – and recognise those with an ‘awareness’ of conservation – means that from April 2022 anyone not securing or applying for assessment as an Affiliate will join a new ‘Supporter’ category, … Continue reading
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Don’t forget: IHBC Marsh Awards 2022 launched: ‘Your chance to nominate retired IHBC members and/or successful learners’, closing 31 March
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Trust, has launched the two 2022 Awards – for civic contributions by retired members, and for successful learning in heritage skills – with prizes that include £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s Aberdeen 2022 … Continue reading
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IHBC signpost: New research report urges for planning policies to adapt to hybrid working
A research report – ‘Working from home, Planning for the new normal?’ – commissioned by Barratt and undertaken by Lichfields working with Savanta, uses survey work to explore how people have responded to the experience of working at home during … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’: Building, on Cathedral cloister reconstruction… after nearly 400 years
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 Building on the Cathedral cloister to be rebuilt after nearly … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Liverpool waterfront development unanimously rejected by planning committee
Councillors on the planning committee have unanimously refused a 330 waterfront-apartment development voting 10-0, The Liverpool Echo reports. image: for illustration purposes only – Dave Chetwin
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Design Council calls on all UK designers, architects, engineers etc. for Design Economy 2021 survey
The Design Council wants to hear from practitioners as part of Design Economy 2021 to ‘better understand who is a designer today, what their personal and professional backgrounds are, and what kind of design they practice’.
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Hill House Box shortlisted for EU contemporary architecture prize
A Scottish site – the Hill House Box – has been shortlisted among European buildings for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. image: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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National Highways no longer intends to infill 140-year-old East Sussex bridge
National Highways has U-turned on plans to infill a 140-year-old bridge in East Sussex.
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IHBC CPD boost, from Conservation Wiki: The History and origins of ‘Fabric Structures’
The origins of fabric structures can be traced back over 44,000 years to the Ice Age and the Siberian Steppe, where remains have been found of simple shelters constructed from animal skins draped between sticks. image: DB
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