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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: May 2023
New research: Three quarters of tradespeople upskilling to go green
New research from Direct Line business insurance has found that three quarters (74 per cent) of tradespeople have upskilled themselves, enabling them to install green technology for clients, as eight-in-ten (79 per cent) have seen increasing demand from people to … Continue reading
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IHBC launches #IHBCPetitionforCharter consultation web hub & resource: Peruse, pass on and promote as suits, with funding for Branch initiatives open too
The IHBC has launched its consultation web hub & resource offering context, updates and more on the prospect of an IHBC Petition for Charter – #IHBCPetitionforCharter – to help engagement on the issues around the IHBC seeking a Royal Charter … Continue reading
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2023 Natural Stone Show Seminar programme out: Includes free IHBC Recognised CPD from HE on Conservation Day, 08/06
The IHBC will be at the Natural Stone Show in ExCeL on 6-8 June, with the full programme of free sessions in the Show’s Seminar Theatre now out, including Conservation Day (08/06), the Historic England (HE) programme of free IHBC-recognised … Continue reading
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IHBC opens call to c.130 Heritage MarketPlace Stalls with ‘Zoom Room’ offers to reach visitors at the MarketPlace:LIVE 2023 Swansea School online launch, 21 June, 4.30-7.00pm
The IHBC has written to Heritage MarketPlace stallholders – our recast web directory and hub for anyone seeking heritage-related support – offering the chance to host ‘Zoom Rooms’ to meet, guide and advise visitors to the online MarketPlace:LIVE launch of … Continue reading
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Check out IHBC’s re-cast online Heritage MarketPlace, free to visit and use: Supporting #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC’s recast Heritage MarketPlace web resource is a new way to access, promote and secure quality services, advice, guidance and more on all aspects of heritage and conservation – its care, checking and changing – free and accessible to … Continue reading
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IHBC Welcomes MFL as Principal Sponsor for the 2023 Swansea Annual School, online and in Swansea, 21-24 June
The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is delighted to announce MFL, as the Principal Sponsor for the institute’s 2023 Annual School and Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE from 21-24 June 2023, in person in Swansea and online.
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IHBC Signpost via Designing Buildings and CIAT: Creating a new chapter for World Heritage Site, Caernarfon Castle
A report on a landmark project to redevelop the King’s Gate at Caernarfon Castle, published by CIAT, has been posted on Designing Buildings. image: CIAT in DB
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Designing Buildings features ‘New energy rules… a threat to towns and cities..’
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 highlights Designing Buildings on ‘New energy rules… a threat to towns … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Edinburgh pink door woman sad after being forced to repaint
An Edinburgh woman says she is ‘sad and disappointed’ after being forced to repaint her pink front door, reports BBC’s local news. image: for illustration only
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AHF: Nine Northern Ireland villages receive ‘Village Catalyst’ support
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has awarded nine new grants totalling £150,000 through the Village Catalyst partnership programme, supporting projects that breath new life into rural communities across Northern Ireland. image: The National School, Bushmills -AHF website
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Yasmeen Lari – ‘Architect for the Poorest of the Poor’ – to receive this year’s 2023 Royal Gold Medal
The Royal Gold Medal 2023 recipient is acclaimed Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari. image: for illustration – by BBC Urdu – World Environment Day: Pakistani architect who builds houses in just Rs. 50,000, CC BY 3.0
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£11m for conservation projects to help Wales’ endangered wildlife
Wales’ Minister for Climate Change Julie James has announced a pot of nearly £11m to help curb the decline of Wales’ wildlife. image: Natural Resources Wales website
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Winners of AJ Small Projects award 2023 announced
OGU Architects and MMAS have been named winners of the Architect’s Journal ‘AJ Small Projects’ awards 2023 at an event at Morris+Company’s offices in Hackney. image: for illustration Albert Bridge / Adelaide Street, Belfast (part)
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Expressions of interest open for National Infrastructure Early Adopters Programme
The Planning Inspectorate is trialling potential components of a future enhanced pre-application service for National Infrastructure. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC welcomes address by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS, to the 2023 Day School – ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ – 23 June, in Swansea and online: #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC warmly welcomes the agreement by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS to address Day School delegates – in Swansea and online – at the IHBC’s 2023 Annual School: ‘Climate Change the Historic … Continue reading
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IHBC opens call to 128 Heritage MarketPlace Stalls with ‘Zoom Room’ offers to reach visitors at the MarketPlace:LIVE 2023 Swansea School online launch, 21 June, 4.30-7.00pm
The IHBC has written to Heritage MarketPlace stallholders – our recast web directory and hub for anyone seeking heritage-related support – offering the chance to host ‘Zoom Rooms’ to meet, guide and advise visitors to the online MarketPlace:LIVE launch of … Continue reading
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Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, now seeks surveyors, regulators, advisers etc., on maintenance, retrofit, design & more, at Eton, HE, Landmark Trust and beyond
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 is at the 2023 Natural Stone Show… naturally – with new MarketPlace, Schools, HESPR, Wiki & more, Excel, 6-8 June (IHBC CPD Recognised Conservation Day: 8 June)
The IHBC will join thousands of industry professionals and over 200 exhibitors at the Natural Stone Show at Excel on 6-8 June, with IHBC Recognised CPD at the Historic England-sponsored Conservation Day (8 June), and all free!
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Check out IHBC’s re-cast online Heritage MarketPlace, #IHBCMarketPlace, free to visit and use: Supporting #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC’s recast Heritage MarketPlace web resource is a new way to access, promote and secure quality services, advice, guidance and more on all aspects of heritage and conservation – its care, checking and changing – free and accessible to … Continue reading
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IHBC Research Signpost: DCMS publishes ‘Cultural Recovery Fund data report’
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published its ‘Cultural Recovery Fund data report’ based on management data based on applicant-supplied information. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £70K costed works: Museum calls for activity planner, closing 06/06, valued £20K
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 Museum’s call for Activity Planning Services … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Calls for hillfort housing decision to go to planning committee
Campaigners have escalated public concerns over the controversial bid to build housing in the setting of Old Oswestry Hillfort by calling in the planning application for committee determination, reports Shropshire Live. image: for illustration – Old Oswestry Hillfort by Oswestry … Continue reading
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THA circulates delegate update on England’s Heritage Day 2023
The Heritage Alliance has circulated an update and reminder to delegates on the Heritage Day 2023 experience hosted at the Charterhouse in London, including recordings, pics and more.
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SAVE’s BaR call: Volunteer photographers sought
SAVE is calling for volunteer photographers to showcase buildings on its Buildings at Risk (BaR) register at its annual update event on new entries, on 28 June.
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Wales’ Deputy Minister for Climate Change Written Statement on Menai Suspension Bridge Works
Lee Waters MS, Deputy Minister for Climate Change, has made a Written Statement on the Menai Suspension Bridge Hanger Works (Phase 2) – Trial. image: for illustration – By Reading Tom from Reading, UK – The Menai Suspension Bridge, CC … Continue reading
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