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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: 08/11/2022
Don’t forget the IHBC’s (FREE, if occasionally underestimated) jewels for #IHBC25 : No.2 – The IHBC’s NewsBlog service
[slideshow_deploy id=’34844′]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: HES boost for communities as Scottish heritage projects awarded funding
Recent Historic Environment Scotland (HES) Support Fund recipients include a project to celebrate the oldest elm tree in Europe. image: HES
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IHBC Signpost: Canal & River Trust’s Malcolm Horne on the balance between safety and conservation
This is the time for the Canal & River Trust to push forward in its quest to safely maintain and conserve its historic resources, says Malcolm Horne, who became its chief infrastructure and programmes officer in March.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: ArchDaily on ‘Women Architects in Post-Colonial South Asia’
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 ArchDaily on ‘Women Architects in Post-Colonial South Asia’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (at risk) doorstep’: Planning consent ‘green light’ marks new chapter for Rochdale estate
A recent meeting at Rochdale Council unanimously approved a full planning application to transition the local Hopwood Hall Estate back into use after three decades of being vacant, writes Rochdale Online. image: Historic England Archive – List Entry 1068466
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Report on Civic Societies and the Planning Process: Reading University’s Henley Business School via Civic Voice
A report from the Henley Business School (University of Reading) Department of Real Estate and Planning and administered by Civic Voice – Civic Societies and the Planning Process – explores the role of local civic societies in the English planning … Continue reading
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York Civic Trust awarded £250k Lottery Fund grant for York Trailblazers
York Civic Trust, working in partnership with Make it York and partners across the city, has been awarded £249,999 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) to deliver the York Trailblazers project. image: for illustration only – by DACP, CC … Continue reading
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Property leader David Partridge to oversee development of UK’s first Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard
The Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard initiative has appointed Related Argent’s Chairman David Partridge as Chair of its recently convened Governance Board.
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Scotland’s older buildings have vital role to play in meeting net zero targets
An architect involved in a project to transform a pre-1919 Glasgow tenement into an energy efficient building says the work may lead to a more ‘streamlined approach’ in policy to help Scotland achieve its net zero ambitions. image: for illustration … Continue reading
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Public Practice: Expands north with largest cohort of placements with local government
Record intake of placemaking professionals comes after local authorities receive £8bn from Levelling Up Fund and Towns Fund, but say attracting skilled staff is their largest recruitment issue.
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Social value benchmarking report published in partnership with SCAPE
The ‘Social Value Benchmarking Study’, has been published which evaluated the reported outcomes from a sample of over 1,400 projects from the construction sector completed over the past seven years and ranging in size from around £10,000 to over £1.4 … Continue reading
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Former lighthouse with connections to RL Stevenson for sale
A former lighthouse building with a historic connection to author Robert Louis Stevenson has gone up for sale for £149,000. image: By Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0
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