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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: 25/11/2022
IHBC’s Recognised CPD Providers: 65 on board our accessible (and free) sector-leading service, with more welcome
The IHBC’s Recognised CPD Provider service counts some 65 members, and is growing monthly, with the latest to join this accessible and free resource including INTBAU, the Vernacular Architecture Group, The Institute of Conservation, and the Heritage Alliance.
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Remember your Branch in December: IHBC Scotland celebrates #IHBC25 anniversary +AGM, 01/12
IHBC’s Scotland Branch is meeting in person (in Edinburgh) and online as part of the national IHBC25 programme, ‘with some reflections, wine and nibbles’ and including an AGM, on 1 December, from 4pm.
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Remember your Wiki in December : How to ‘write wiki’ for Designing Buildings (and IHBC’s Conservation Wiki!), 01/12
On 1 December, Gregor Harvie, director of the Designing Buildings wiki resource – host for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – will explain how to create, write and optimise articles for the wiki service.
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IHBC signpost to The Carbon Trust on COP 27: … prospects for Net Zero?
The Carbon Trust Director Simon Retallack offers his own take on prospects for Net Zero.
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IHBC signpost to RIBA Awards 2023: Architect applicants for Jury (including Conservation Experts), closing 9/12
The RIBA is calling for volunteers – including ‘Conservation Experts’ – to help judge the RIBA Awards in 2023, with a closing date of 9 December.
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £142+K costed works: Island authority seeks PM services for culture project, due 9/12, to £65K
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 features an Island Authority’s call for a Capital … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (former railway) doorstep’: Plan to turn abandoned Sheppey Light Railway track into a ‘greenway’
A bold plan to convert what is left of the former Sheppey Light Railway into a track for cycling and walking has passed its first hurdle, reports Kent-on-Line. image: for illustration – By Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. – Own work, … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (revived railway) doorstep’: Campaign launched to reopen rail links in Northern Ireland
Belfast Live reports on the plans by the lobby group ‘Into the West’ that has published a proposal which would connect Derry with Portadown, via stations in Strabane, Omagh and Dungannon in Northern Ireland. image: Into the West website
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Levelling Up Bill amendments follow BIDEN principles: New plans to level up and build new homes tabled in Parliament
Measures to clean up rivers added to Levelling Up Bill, with vital infrastructure to be delivered more quickly, are among the new plans that follow the government’s new BIDEN principles. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Three quarters of small builders support a national retrofit strategy, says FMB
The latest State of Trade Survey from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) reveals that 74% of members are in favour of the UK Government introducing a long term plan to reduce energy consumption by making existing homes greener and … Continue reading
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Survey responses on rising energy costs for religious buildings: Summary from HRBAlliance
The Historic Religious Buildings Alliance (HRBAlliance) has reported on an informal survey carried out by September/October 2022 on ‘How churches expect energy costs to rise’. image: for illustration
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