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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: 04/11/2022
Don’t forget the IHBC’s (FREE, if sometimes forgotten) jewels in #IHBC25: No.1 – The IHBC’s ToolBox
[slideshow_deploy id=’34803′]The IHBC is marking our 25th anniversary across this subscription year, from April 2022 to March 2023, and as part of looking back – and forward – we’re celebrating some of the free IHBC ‘jewels’ that help members and … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: CHN’s dedicated web resource for ‘Culture at COP27’, from 6/11
Climate Heritage Network (CHN) has produced a ‘Culture at COP27’ dedicated web page.
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IHBC Signpost: HE’s Heritage Sector Carbon Net Zero Survey, ends 4/12
Historic England (HE) has issued a short survey for heritage organisations with heritage sites or offering heritage services, to inform future support on Carbon Net Zero planning, closing 4 December.
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £416K+ costed works: City Council seeks engagement etc. support for heritage site, closes 09/11, up to £240K
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 City Council for … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (community) doorstep’: Save Waterloo’s Paradise from Lambeth’s ‘largest single office proposal’
The mediaeval tranquillity of South London’s oldest gardens in central London are threatened by a cluster of 6 new tall buildings opposite Big Ben, say opponents who have launched the campaign to ‘Save Waterloo’s Paradise’. image: savewaterlooparadise.com
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DLUHC Digital: Introducing the planning data platform
Users can find planning and housing data that is easy to understand, use and trust with a platform to help create services to inform planning and housing decisions in England. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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AHRC: Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition, closes 30/11
The AHRC has announced that the Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition – UKRI Round 1 call is now open to applications, and closing on 30 November 2022.
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Construction industry urged to ‘embrace’ new Scottish Construction Accord
The construction industry must ‘embrace’ the new Scottish Construction Accord in order to make it effective, the Construction Industry Collective Voice (CICV) has said. image: for illustration only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Industry bodies unite to ‘shift digital focus’ towards maintenance
Select built environment bodies have joined forces to align the data standards to manage costing, carbon and building and facilities maintenance in a bid to shift the digital focus from new build to whole life building performance. image: for illustration … Continue reading
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Scoping culture and heritage capital report published by DCMS
A report scoping has been issued on how the value of arts, culture and heritage can be articulated and measured based on The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS’s) Culture and Heritage Capital approach.
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Cities require urgent rethink, study says if country is to meet 2050 net zero targets: Streets of the Future
Britain’s cities require urgent transformation, including more green spaces and public transport, if the country is to meet its 2050 net zero targets, a new study says. image: for illustration only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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C20 launches Leisure Centres campaign
The Twentieth Century Society (C20) is launching a new nationwide campaign to celebrate the architecture of the leisure centre and to protect the most historic examples. image: for illustration only – Coventry Sports Centre, Historic England
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Heritage worker crashes accidentally into protected ancient toilet
A man whose job it is to help preserve Japan’s cultural heritage has accidentally smashed his car into the country’s oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple. image: for illustration only Tofukuji, Kyoto – Photo by PlusMinus, CC BY-SA 3.0
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