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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
Daily Archives: 03/05/2023
IHBC highlights concerns over Damaged cultural sites in Ukraine verified by UNESCO
IHBC past vice chair and lead on the Ukraine working Group (WG) Kathy Davies has highlighted the heritage concerns raised in UNESCO’s update of its preliminary damage assessment for cultural properties following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. image: for illustration only
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IHBC’s ‘Project signpost’: HS2 reveals final design for last of seven key Chiltern Tunnel structures
HS2 has publicised the final designs for the North Portal of the Chiltern Tunnel – the last of seven key structures for the high speed rail project’s longest tunnels. image: for illustration – HS2
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: DB features IHBC’s new Research for Practice Digest
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 Designing Building on the IHBC’s first issue of its new … Continue reading
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IHBC’s features ‘Heritage from the Doorstep’: First look inside the new £45 million Paisley Museum
Billed as Scotland’s biggest cultural heritage project, the £45 million refurbishment of Paisley Museum will create a ‘radical’ world-class museum space to preserve and celebrate the town’s history and international impact, reports The Herald. image: for illustration – By Thomas … Continue reading
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Heritage Declares Newsletter: Heritage the Climate Crisis.., and UKCR update
Heritage Declares has issued it April Newsletter with topics covering all the latest news, including Heritage Declares at Futurebuild and an update signpost on the The UK Climate Resilience Programme (UKCR).
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Climate Heritage Network welcomes 92 new member organisations
The Climate Heritage Network (CHN) – of which the IHBC is a member – announced that 92 additional organisations have joined the Network following approval of their membership applications by the Network’s international Steering Committee.
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Skills boost for English planning authorities via £1M Public Practice funding
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has given social enterprise Public Practice £1 million to help councils recruit and develop skilled planners. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Scotland’s new climate adaptation tool for communities launched
Adaptation Scotland and partners have launched the Community Climate Adaptation Routemap, a practical guide for communities to adapt to climate change.
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Contractor fined £800k after child’s death on site
A Scottish civil engineering contractor has been fined £800,000 for safety breaches after a 10-year-old boy sustained fatal injuries while playing on a building site in Glasgow.
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Arts & Business Scotland becomes Culture & Business Scotland with new identity and strategic vision
The former Arts & Business Scotland has announced its rebranding to Culture & Business Scotland, as well as launching its strategy for the next five years.
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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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