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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: March 2023
IHBC co-sponsors ICOMOS UK conference: ‘Embedding a Rights-Based Approach into UK World Heritage Sites’, in person and in Greenwich, 25/04, from £20 (students)
ICOMOS-UK’s one-day conference, co-sponsored by the IHBC, will explore how a Rights-Based Approach, including Decolonisation practices, can be a valuable tool, from £20 (Students) to £80, to include lunch and evening reception, all at the University of Greenwich.
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IHBC Signpost: Increasing planning fees and performance -technical consultation for England
Government UK has launched a new technical consultation on ‘increased planning fees and performance’.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £975K costed works: Council seeks team for pier project, ends 13/04, value £700K
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 call from a Council for a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plan To Save The Birthplace Of ‘Auld Lang Syne’
Plans to save the only farm built by the poet Robert Burns are unveiled as the ‘FutureVision’, which seeks to safeguard the 170 acre Ellisland Farm, on the banks of the River Nith, where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne, Tam … Continue reading
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Supreme Court says Shrewsbury’s old statutory trust gives public rights to land despite council’s sale for housing
In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a resident who claimed a statutory trust created in 1926 gives residents rights of recreation over a piece of land even after Shrewsbury Town Council sold it to … Continue reading
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RTPI: 87% of planners say social media fuels misinformation on local planning issues
A survey conducted by the RTPI magazine The Planner found that 87% of planners feel social media is fuelling misinformation around local planning issues.
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CHN Update: COP27 2022 Global Status Report for buildings and construction spotlights ‘Heritage’ and ‘Traditional Knowledge’
The 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction Towards a zero-emissions, efficient and resilient buildings and construction sector.
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Culture Secretary encourages public to add Coronation events to digital map
An interactive map detailing events taking place to celebrate the Coronation will be launched this week by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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IWA launches a major campaign to protect waterways core funding across the UK
The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) is deeply concerned about the threat to our waterways posed by funding cuts, with for example Canal & River Trust and Scottish Canals financial situations being especially critical.
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IHBC’s Ukraine Signpost: French firm pilots scheme to rebuild Ukraine with rubble of bombed buildings
A French company specialising in recycling rubble for building materials has teamed up with the Ukrainian military and Ukrainian organisations to build new apartment blocks from the remains of bombed ones. image: for illustration only
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REGISTRATION OPEN for IHBC Council 30 March 2023, online from 2pm: Open to all IHBC member categories, for charter updates, election (Vice President), Branch issues and more
All categories of IHBC member – Supporter, Affiliate, Associate and Full Member – are invited to join Council from 2pm on 30 March for a packed afternoon of CPD, from a new election (Vice President) to practice and support updates … Continue reading
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Easier IHBC Affiliate applications UPDATE: Support now includes new video screencast, all IHBC CPD too!
The IHBC has launched a suite of new help and guidance to make it easier for our Supporter members to advance to the new Affiliate member category, including a dedicated web page; surgeries and more recently a video screencast by … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: Circular Economy Scotland Report published by Green Alliance outlines economic opportunities available
The economic opportunities available to Scotland by becoming a more circular economy are outlined in the Circular Economy Scotland Report.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: AJ on Purcell in Manchester
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 the Architect’s Journal on HESPR member Purcell’s £15m transformation of … Continue reading
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IHBC’s features ‘Heritage from the (Highland) doorstep’: Old Man of Storr footpath improvement project completes
An ambitious footpath improvement project at the world famous Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, has been completed in time for the peak tourist season, reports Scotland’s Highland Council. image: for illustration – By Diliff – Own work, CC … Continue reading
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Grosvenor and partners: Retrofitting the UK’s historic buildings could generate £35bn pa
As the UK has only half the skilled workers it needs to retrofit the country’s historic buildings, partners Grosvenor, Peabody, The National Trust, Historic England, and The Crown Estate have launched a call to build a workforce capable of meeting … Continue reading
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Vic Soc: Birmingham former bike factory ‘STEAMhouse’ wins prestigious conservation award
The Birmingham & West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society has announced its eighth annual conservation award, which goes to Birmingham City University in recognition of the exemplary restoration of the Eccles Works as part of the STEAMhouse development. image: … Continue reading
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Smith Mordak announced as new Chief Executive of UKGBC
The leading network championing the sustainability of the built environment UKGBC welcomes industry trailblazer, Smith Mordak, into the Leadership role as it continues to drive ambitious transformation across the sector.
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2023 SocEnv Awards now open for submissions to recognise outstanding environmental work, close 11/04
The Society for the Environments (SocEnv) prestigious 2023 awards are now open for submissions, and close on 11 April.
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Icon secures Lottery funding to investigate industrial heritage conservation skills shortages
Icon has announced that it has been successful in its application to the Heritage Innovation Fund, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to investigate industrial heritage conservation skills shortages.
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New refurbishment and retrofit framework urges interest from would-be suppliers
Specialist contractors are being sought to help shape a multi-million-pound framework launching later this year to deliver refurbishment and associated retrofit works for the public sector. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Siloed land information is holding back Scotland
A new report published today (8th March) by the David Hume Institute and Built Environment Forum Scotland, written by land reform expert Andy Wightman, says the lack of a fully functioning land and building information system is holding Scotland back.
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IHBC’s latest Council update, on chartering, petitions, your institute and you: 30 March, 2pm
All categories of IHBC members – Supporters, Affiliates, Associates and Full Members – are encouraged to join the IHBC’s next Council from 2pm on 30 March, to take a first look at chartering the IHBC and its benefits and challenges, … Continue reading
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Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, from Jersey, HE, National Parks, Cathedrals and more
To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the diverse opportunities in our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Budget Signpost, from Designing Buildings and more: 2023 Spring Budget summary, select responses and links
Designing Buildings – the construction sector’s knowledge base as well as host and partner to the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – has posted a summary of some industry responses to the 2023 Spring Budget, with more select links on offer to … Continue reading
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