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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: 31/03/2023
IHBC 2023 School launched: #IHBCSwansea2023 booking opens for ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment; Resilience and Performance’, in-person and online, 21-24 June 2023
IHBC’s Council on 30 March saw the booking open for our 2023 Annual School, #IHBCSwansea2023, examining ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’, offering current thinking on addressing climate change in the historic environment, with up to 4 days of IHBC-recognised … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Toolbox update on LA conservation jobs in England: ‘Market Intelligence’ Research Note from IHBC’s 2022 ‘Jobs etc.’ posts
The IHBC’s first Research Note (RN) for 2023 (RN2023/1) has been posted on the IHBC’s ToolBox, offering our annual update of ‘Market Intelligence’ on England’s local authority (LA) conservation-related jobs, based on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick ‘double up’ from £815K costed works: Lighthouse-linked improvements and fire safety upgrade in London icon, £250K total
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 double-up call on a fire safety … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter could get a farm, café & community space on a car park roof
Birmingham Live reports on a proposal that could see Slow Food Birmingham build a farm on the Vyse Street car park. image: for illustration only – By JimmyGuano – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34431206
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City of London says: ‘Consider green alternatives to demolition’
Developers in the City of London will be asked to consider alternatives to demolition at the earliest stage of the planning process – in a ‘pioneering’ scheme aimed at reducing the Square Mile’s carbon footprint. image: for illustration – © … Continue reading
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DCMS: Now recruiting DCMS Departmental Non-Executive Board Members, closing 7/04
DCMS seeks Non-Executive Board Members (including a Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee), for 20 day(s) @ £15K to £20K p.a., closing 7 April.
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Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect and past president of the RIAS has died
Scotland’s most renowned conservation architect of recent times, Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, has died at the age of 96.
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Richard Rogers’ Channel 4 HQ listed GII
Richard Rogers’ Channel 4 Headquarters building in Westminster has been granted Grade II-listed status amid concerns for the future of the 1990s high-tech building. image: for illustration – By Tim Benedict Pou – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56639883
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Reshuffle at the Construction Leadership Council (CLC)
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has reorganised its leadership, putting the man in charge of building the controversial Lower Thames Crossing in charge of ecology and environmental issues.
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ARB consultation on ‘Tomorrow’s Architects’: On ‘…comprehensive reforms to the education and training’, closing 10/05
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) has launched a consultation on comprehensive reforms to the education and training of architects, closing on Wednesday 10 May 2023.
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Seven theatres awarded funding to improve environmental sustainability
The latest round of the Theatre Improvement Scheme in association with the Wolfson Foundation has awarded a total of £124,000 in grants to seven theatres. image: for illustration – The Theatres Trust
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The Prince’s Foundation opens applications to new Building Crafts Programme, from July 2023, closes 3/04
Applications are open now for The Prince’s Foundation Building Craft Programme’s new course, to commence in July, and close on 3 April.
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