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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Law & Policy Update – ‘A village is not a historic town’ 21/10/2025
- IHBC Research Signpost: Impacts of changes to local authority funding on small to medium heritage organisations 21/10/2025
- 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 21/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 21/10/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: LocalGov on ‘Planning recruitment’ threats as 33 bodies (inc. IHBC) call for funds 21/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Welsh council to appeal High Court quashing of Article 4s over ‘misleading’ officers’ report 21/10/2025
- TCPA seeks support in Campaign for Healthy Homes: Joining health and PD rights advocacy in Planning Bill changes 21/10/2025
- Licensing builders must happen following ECO debacle, says FMB 21/10/2025
- Honouring the legacy of the Sycamore Gap tree: a new creative commission 21/10/2025
- Built Environment Committee responds to New Towns Taskforce Report 21/10/2025
- £10Mn+ Water company fines fund local restoration projects 21/10/2025
- Elle Cass next Chair Royal Town Planning Institute Board 21/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: UNESCO launches the first global Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at MONDIACULT 2025 21/10/2025
- 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
Monthly Archives: March 2023
IHBC signpost to Honours: Members & Branches encouraging nominations to 2024 NY Honours via DCMS’ proforma, to 24/03
England’s Department for Digital, Culture Media & Sport (DCMS), is asking for help in identifying ‘candidates from within [our] sector to be considered for recognition amongst the 2024 New Year (NY) Honours’, closing 24 March, with a simple blank proforma … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £469K costed works: International body seeks evaluation of a Local-Global project, ends 10/03, £9,000
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 an international authority for … Continue reading
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NLHF launches Heritage 2033, ‘our new 10-year strategy’
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) has launched its new strategy with Heritage 2033, which has four investment principles: Saving heritage; Protecting the environment; Inclusion, access and participation; and Organisational sustainability. image: NLHF website
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NI’s Historic Environment Division launches ‘Conservation Principles…’, and more
Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities (DfC) Historic Environment Division (HED) has issued ‘Conservation Principles: Guidance for the sustainable management of the historic environment in Northern Ireland’, supported by ‘Applying the Conservation Principles’.
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ARB’s new powers to monitor training and development of architects for CPD etc., from 2024
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) has been given new powers in the Building Safety Act 2022 to monitor the training and development architects carry out throughout their careers, to support architects’ commitment to continued learning and uphold public confidence in … Continue reading
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DLUHC’s new Office for Place launches website
England’s Office for Place, first announced on 20 July 2021 by Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLHUC) to help ‘make it easier for all neighbourhood communities… to require what they find beautiful and refuse what they find ugly’, … Continue reading
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RIBA’s ‘Six standards for managing work-related stress in architectural practices’
The Health and Safety Executive’s Working Minds initiative seeks to normalise conversations around work-related stress and make them as routine as managing any other health and safety issue. image: Elisa Ventur on Unsplash
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NCT poll confirms Massive public support for church buildings
Despite a decline in the number of Christians in the UK, the public overwhelmingly support the nation’s 39,000 churches, chapels and meeting houses, according to the findings of a new opinion poll commissioned by the National Churches Trust (NCT).
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