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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: 12/08/2022
IHBC’s Feedback Report for #IHBCAberdeen2022 School and MarketPlace: 90%+ all round; ‘Topical, informative, & inspiring…’
Initial feedback on the IHBC’s Aberdeen 2022 School was impressive – especially for such an experimental format – with that 90%+ positive response now confirmed in our regular School feedback analysis and report.
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IHBC welcomes Vic Soc’s Welsh Heritage Day, Cardiff 3/09, with Griff and more: How to help save our… architectural heritage
The IHBC has warmly welcomed the Victorian Society’s Welsh Heritage Day on 3/09 in Cardiff, especially the focus on community engagement which forms a perfect foil both to our Branch CPD and #IHBC25 event on 5/09 and the ‘Technology’ focus … Continue reading
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REMEMBER: IHBC’s Student Award closes 31/08 – £500 + free 2023 School place for #IHBCSwansea2023!
The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award has been launched for this academic year, closing on 31 August 2022, so if you have coursework from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, from 2021 OR 2022 –submit it … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: BSI introduces best practice guidance standards – The built environment’s journey to net zero
The built environment contributes around 40% of the UK’s total carbon footprint, indicating just how important the sector is to achieving net zero, so BSIgroup is introducing best practice guidance standards on managing and reducing carbon emissions. image: BSI infographic
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £900K of recent works: Heritage body seeks data analysis, closing 12/09, valued to £15K
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 IHBC Director’s pick for this week is a call from a national heritage lead … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (construction awards) doorstep’: Conversion of Kirkcaldy LB wins 3 environmental awards
Kingdom Housing Association celebrates three awards for the renovation of Hunter House, Kirkcaldy, a Category B listed building (LB), at the 2022 Green Apple Environment Excellence Awards, reports Scottish Construction Now. image: for illustration only – taken February 2009 by … Continue reading
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Help ‘Shape the Future Work’ of the Heritage Fund: Heritage sector workers survey open to 5/09
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) is looking for views to shape its new 10-year strategy, and has opened a survey for those working in the heritage sector, with a deadline of 5 September.
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Liverpool Council sets out tall buildings policy
Liverpool City Council has produced a framework aimed at guiding the development of tall buildings to ensure they ‘positively contribute to the legibility and architectural richness of the city’. image: for illustration only – Dave Chetwyn
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Latest housing data: 1.9M households affected by overheating
New housing data in the English Housing Survey shows that in 2020-21, 1.9 million (8%) households reported that at least one part of their home got uncomfortably hot, reports BRE. image: for illustration only
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Funding for 57 new projects across England for ‘our nation’s working-class heritage’: HE’s ‘Everyday Heritage Grants’
The untold histories of West Yorkshire’s boxing clubs, Leicester’s hidden nightclub scene and Deptford’s 19th-century slaughterhouse workers are amongst 57 new projects that Historic England (HE) will fund through its Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories. image: General view … Continue reading
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RTPI research project on UK & Ireland Rural Planning in the 2020s published
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has published a new research report on Rural Planning in the 2020s across the UK and Ireland.
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Designers unite to meet climate challenges through £25m fund
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Design Museum have launched a £25M fund to bring businesses and design researchers together to tackle the climate and environmental crises. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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National Trust reveals new plans for fire ravaged Clandon Park: Unique ‘X-ray’ view of how a country house is made
The National Trust has announced a new approach for Clandon Park, the early 18th-century house in Surrey, designed by the innovative Italian architect Giacomo Leoni and catastrophically damaged by fire in April 2015.
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