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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: 09/12/2022
CPP APPG Inquiry update: MPs back targeted LB VAT cuts & presumption against demolition
Targeted cuts in the VAT rate on listed building (LB) refurbishments and a presumption against demolition of existing properties are amongst the recommendations in the first report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) heritage group on Conservation, Places and People … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 2-3 Feb 2023
The IHBC is delighted to offer free entry for our members to the Listed Property Owners Club’s (LPOC) annual London Listed Property Show, on 2-3 February in London’s Olympia (pre-booking essential).
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IHBC signpost to Wales’ Historic Environment Bill: Counsel General fields Committee queries
On 14 November, Mick Antoniw MS, Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, made a second appearance before Committee to give evidence on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill.
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £416K+ works: Heritage body seeks investment programme evaluation, 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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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the park entrance’: Welsh slate roofs in Lake District town must go says National Park
Planners have rejected a request to allow a number of new homes in the Keswick area to keep their Welsh slate roofs, following a requirement to use local materials instead. image: for illustration – Braithwaite by By Andrew Smith, CC … Continue reading
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GOVE: ‘Communities put at heart of planning system’ with Bill changes
Secretary of State for Levelling Up etc., Michael Gove is leading new measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill (LURB) ‘to place local communities at the heart of the planning system’. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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RTPI: Almost 90% of Local Authorities surveyed struggling with backlog of planning enforcement cases
Planning enforcement across the country is in a resourcing, skills, and performance crisis, as revealed by a RTPI survey of 103 local planning authorities. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Consultation for Scotland’s new historic environment strategy: Our Place in Time, closes 20/02
Historic Environment Scotland is consulting on a new strategy for Scotland’s historic environment: Our Place in Time, closing 20 February 2023. image: for illustration-Fiona Newton
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BRE asks: ‘Help test the Built Environment Carbon Database’ – open till 16/12
BRE is collaborating with other industry leaders to develop a new Built Environment Carbon Database so it can ‘become the main source of carbon estimating and benchmarking for the UK construction sector. image: for illustration only
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Thousands of apprentices quit due to ‘poor quality’ of scheme
Thousands of people who have taken up apprenticeships to help them develop new skills have dropped out due to the poor quality of their schemes, new research reveals. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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