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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: 01/03/2022
IHBC’s Council’s 3rd meeting, chaired by IHBC President, explored practice-led CPD on Listed Building Consent and guidance
IHBC’s new Council held its third meeting immediately before the IHBC 2022 AGM on 24 February, with IHBC President and Council Chair Mike Brown leading updates on recent IHBC developments and introducing a practice-led and free CPD special on England’s … Continue reading
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IHBC Marsh Awards 2022 – ‘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’s HESPR news throwback from a week in February: Director’s selection, from ‘crass’ requests to women in industry
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 this week looks back to early February.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Landmark London gasworks could house 555 new flats, after 8,000 complaints
Two iconic East London gasworks could soon be turned into a huge new apartment complex after plans for the scheme passed a crucial stage, reports My London. image: Dr Neil Clifton / Bethnal Green: Gasholder – Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Bethnal … Continue reading
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RSPB, CIEEM and RTPI report: ‘Planning naturally- Spatial planning with nature in mind: in the UK and beyond’
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) and the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) explore together how planning for biodiversity should be integral to every part of the planning process.
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Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council reverses decision to scrap all arts funding following consultation
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has decided against plans to cut arts funding by 100% following a public consultation which indicated strength of feeling concerning arts funding.
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Irish Government launches the National Retrofitting Scheme
The Irish Government has approved support for homeowners to undertake home energy upgrades, addressing barriers to energy upgrades (retrofits) and reflecting the step-change needed to achieve a target of 500K home energy upgrades by 2030.
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New Scottish Planning Circular on ‘Local Place Plans’
Scotland’s Planning circular 1/2022 – Local Place Plans – provides guidance to communities and planning authorities on the preparation, submission and registration of Local Place Plans.
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Northern leaders put culture at centre of region’s post-pandemic recovery
A post-pandemic, pre-Levelling Up Paper, report on recovery that makes the case for the cultural icons of Northern England to be a catalyst for levelling up wins a rare show of cross-party unity.
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A legal right to nature should be part of levelling-up agenda, say campaigners
The government should set legal duties in levelling-up legislation so that developers and public bodies provide equal access to nature-rich green and blue spaces for everyone. This is just one call set out in a letter to levelling-up Secretary Michael … Continue reading
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Australian mining state passes Aboriginal heritage protection law
Legislators have introduced better protection for Aboriginal heritage in the mining state of Western Australia but indigenous groups said it did not go far enough and are counting on changes at the national level. image: for illustration purposes only By … Continue reading
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