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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: 21/09/2022
IHBC Wales celebrates first in-person CPD in recent years: Plas Mawr (5/09) on retrofit, looking back on #IHBC25 and ahead to #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC Wales Branch was delighted to host its first in-person event since the pandemic relaxations at Plas Mawr on 5 September, as it explored issues to re-surface with more depth and context at the 2023 Annual School, #IHBCSwansea2023, in … Continue reading
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IHBC signpost to England’s Chief Planner: ‘Call for Participation: User Research and Planning’
Joanna Averley, England’s Chief Planner, has included in her monthly update a reminder from that DLUHC’s user research user research is looking at to hear about your experiences of planning and build that into future policy thinking.
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IHBC issues links to #IHBCAberdeen2022 Day School Recordings & CPD Certs: You can still sign up as delegates (from £25+VAT) for access & CPD
The IHBC has sent all current Aberdeen School delegates links to access the broadcasts of the #IHBCAberdeen 2022 Day School – if you are missing yours let us know, while anyone else can still sign up HERE to access the … Continue reading
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IHBC’s joint ‘Conservation Professional Practice Principles’ (CPPP) survey: Add your thoughts now!
The joint ‘Conservation Professional Practice Principles’ consultation survey has been launched, as we look at renewing this cross-sector (IHBC-HTVF-Civic Voice) statement on practice principles for those working in built and historic environment conservation.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Building features ‘Second Elizabethan age: 8 decades of building’
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 ‘Second Elizabethan age: eight decades of building’. … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (business) doorstep’: Record visitor figures for heritage leisure and retail attraction, Piece Hall
The Piece Hall marks the fifth anniversary of its 2017 re-opening following a multi-million pound refurbishment with the news that it has now welcomed over 10 million visitors, reports The Business Desk. image: The Piece Hall Trust
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RICS policy report: Retrofitting to decarbonise UK existing housing stock
Government must maximise public interest in home improvements to green the UK housing stock says RICS in a new paper that calls on Government to make a step-change in policies for decarbonising existing UK housing stock.
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More department stores in England may be given protected status
Historic England announces review of landmark buildings amid closures as campaigners call for ‘creative reinvention’, reports The Guardian. image: for illustration only – Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Reclaimed stone from a historic Dundee jute mill to be used in a new signage structure in the University
Reclaimed stone from a historic Dundee jute mill, Wallace Craigie Works, is to find new purpose pointing University of Dundee students in the right direction through a new wayfinding signage system.
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Climate-Conscious Architects Want Europe To Build Less: Time on M&S demolition
An unusual conservation battle is brewing on Oxford Street, London’s busy shopping avenue as Marks and Spencer wants to knock down its flagship store while group of architects and local activists are mobilised to save the store… because of the … Continue reading
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