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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
Monthly Archives: December 2022
IHBC says farewell to 2022 with top 10 NewsBlogs (so far): Regen, panels, prosecutions and more, from local cases to practice guidance
The IHBC’s NewsBlogs resource and linked free email alert service (sign up HERE) form a central part of the institute’s CPD support, guidance and reference for practicing conservation professionals and their sector networks.
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#IHBCAberdeen2022’S eighth reprise: ‘Historic Aberdeen museum set for significant repairs’
Aberdeen’s Category A-listed ‘Tolbooth’ is to get extensive repairs worth a total of £1.36 million. image for illustration – by Aberdeen City Heritage Trust
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IHBC Signpost: Transport secretary casts doubt on Great British Railways’ future as he looks for ‘alternative views’
Transport secretary Mark Harper will ‘take some time to listen to alternative views’ about how to accomplish the intention behind the government’s proposed reform of the UK’s railways under the new public body Great British Railways (GBR). image: for illustration
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £800K+ works: Council seeks archaeological advice, due 27/01, valued £192K
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 a Council’s call for archaeological Advice, closing … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (digital) doorstep’: Local paper’s project to digitise 130 years of Farnham Herald history
A project to digitise more than 130 years of local history immortalised in the pages of the Herald – and make it free to access for the public online – is set to take off in 2023 after a frenzy … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (High Street) doorstep’: Postcode checker – how has your High Street changed since 2020?
A new BBC analyis lets you find out how the High Streets and shopping areas near you have changed since the beginning of the pandemic – by just typing in your postcode. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Gove on ‘A [new] School of Place’: ‘… what can we identify as being central to design?’
The foreword by Michael Gove to the Policy Exchange’s new report on ‘How a New School of Architecture can Revitalise Britain’s Built Environment’ backs its call for a new school of architecture and urban design. image: for illustration – Open … Continue reading
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HE Chair Sir Laurie Magnus appointed as PM’s Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests
Historic England (HE) Chair Sir Laurie Magnus CBE has been appointed as the Prime Minister’s new Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests. image: for illustration – HE website
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EDSK’s ‘NO TRAIN, NO GAIN’ highlights apprenticeship failings
EDSK – a not-for-profit think tank registered in England and Wales – has issued a new investigation of apprenticeships, highlighting concerns and calling on government to restate and renew its commitment to apprenticeship standards. image: for illustration – Open Government … Continue reading
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HE Highlights Fascinating Heritage Sites Listed in 2022
As 2022 draws to a close, Historic England (HE) highlights 23 listed gems from the 240 sites across the country added to the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) over the past year.
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Academy of Urbanism announces ‘The Urbanism Awards Winners 2022’
The Academy of Urbanism has announced ‘The Urbanism Awards Winners 2022’ with the winning Place, Street, Neighbourhood, Town, and European City for 2022. image: for illustration – The Piece Hall website
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£1.3bn Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon officially sunk as developer loses planning appeal
Plans for the £1.3bn Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon have been dealt a blow by the Court of Appeal, which has ruled that work on the project did not commence within five years of receiving planning approval and therefore the development … Continue reading
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IHBC’s new Context (174), on your doorstep, online, and – best of all – on #IHBC25: More anniversary fare and accessible CPD for your seasonal read
The new issue of the IHBC’s must-read journal, Context No.174, explores just a few key threads in the history of the IHBC in our 25th Anniversary year – #IHBC25 – with extra gems including a local architectural archive that represents … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes Terence O’Rourke to HESPR: IHBC’s register of quality-assured conservation and heritage practices
Terence O’Rourke is the latest company to be accepted on to the IHBC conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ listing, of heritage businesses to benefit from IHBC’s quality assurance.
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Don’t forget the IHBC’s (FREE) jewels for #IHBC25: No. 5 – Events calendar
To mark the IHBC’s 25th anniversary in #IHBC25 our NewsBlog service is looking back – and forward – as we celebrate some of the free ‘jewels’ that help members and colleagues contribute to our charitable objects, with the post this … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost to Wales: Consultation on ‘Public Commemoration… Guidance’, closing 21/2/23
In an oral statement in the Senedd Cymru on 29 November, Dawn Bowden MS, Deputy Minister for Arts etc,, announced the launch of a twelve-week public consultation on Public Commemoration in Wales: Guidance for Public Bodies, closing 21 February. image: … Continue reading
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Warm welcomes from AJ on IHBC-supported parliamentary APPG call to ‘Cut VAT… to historic buildings’, and more
The Architect’s Journal (AJ) has featured the new report from the IHBC-supported cross-party Parliamentary group on Conservation, Places and People which calls for reduced VAT for historic buildings to encourage appropriate retrofit.
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IHBC’s Vice Chair congratulates Simpson and Brown team on joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award success
The IHBC has warmly congratulated Laure Emery, Nicholas Uglow, Christian Clarkson and James Legard of the Simpson & Brown Heritage Consultancy Team on winning the second joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award for their research into the history and development of … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: How the Redcar Blast Furnace helped Teesside build the world
The demolition of the Redcar Blast Furnace will bookend a story spanning six decades, Teesside historian Dr Tosh Warwick reports through The Northern Echo. image: for illustration – By Stuart Kerr – Corus Steel Works, RedcarUploaded by Computerjoe, CC BY … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £416K+ works: Heritage body seeks Landscape Plan, due 18/01, value c.£250K
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 the call from a national heritage body … Continue reading
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English Heritage reports a big rise in income and membership
The conservation charity has a record 1.18 million people signed up, but its chair warns of ‘challenges’ ahead. image: for illustration
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10 accessible historic places to visit as HE looks at listed places that creatively improved their accessibility
There are many challenges when operating or managing listed places, writes Historic England (HE) and when thinking about accessibility, it is important to think about a wide range of disabilities and impairments.
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IHBC signpost to the past: Scotland faces a ‘monumental task’, Patrick Harvie tells Scotland’s Green Home Festival launch
Scotland faces a ‘monumental but essential task’ if it is to overhaul its aged housing stock and find practical solutions to reduce emissions and address the climate emergency, said Minister Patrick Harvie as he opened the first-ever Green Home Festival … Continue reading
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Warm welcomes from AJ on IHBC-supported parliamentary APPG call to ‘Cut VAT…. to historic buildings’, and more….
The Architect’s Journal (AJ) has featured the new report from the IHBC-supported cross-party Parliamentary group on Conservation, Places and People which calls for reduced VAT for historic buildings to encourage appropriate retrofit.
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IHBC’s Vice Chair congratulates Simpson and Brown team on joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award success
The IHBC has warmly congratulated Laure Emery, Nicholas Uglow, Christian Clarkson and James Legard of the Simpson & Brown Heritage Consultancy Team on winning the second joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award for their research into the history and development of … Continue reading
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