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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: 30/05/2023
NW Branch Conference update and review: Adapting to Climate Change, key conclusions, challenges and priorities, because it’s ‘NOT IF, BUT HOW’
The IHBC North West (NW) Branch’s recent conference on ‘Adapting to Climate Change, key conclusions & challenges’, held in Chester Cathedral on 27 April, voiced the need to find common ground between heritage regulation and change under climate change, concluding … Continue reading
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Your invite to IHBC’s new virtual Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE – 21 June, flexible from 4.30PM, FREE & OPEN TO ALL – supporting #IHBCSwansea2023
Anyone can register HERE to visit our free and open forum of heritage advice, guidance, services and more – IHBC’s MarketPlace:LIVE – online and live & included with #IHBCSwansea2023 bookings, on ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’.
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IHBC welcomes c.130 Heritage MarketPlace Stalls and offers ‘Zoom Rooms’ to reach visitors at MarketPlace:LIVE 2023 on 21 June, 4.30-7.00pm – the launch of #IHBCSwansea2023
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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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 Project Signpost: McGee to deliver pioneering deconstruction works at 1 Golden Lane in the City of London
McGee, a specialist engineering contractor delivering high-profile, complex engineering projects, is pleased to announce it has been appointed by Castleforge for deconstruction works at 1 Golden Lane, in the City of London. image: for illustration – Photo by Benjamin Davies on Unsplash
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: DB on IHBC’s Marsh Award winners
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 Designing Buildings (DB) on the announcement of the IHBC … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the roots up’: Ancient King Charles oak faces the chop
Tensions are brewing in Berkshire as residents push back against plans to cut down a 700-year-old oak tree used to spy on King Charles I’s army during the Civil War, reports Localgov. image: for illustration
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New SME study reveals 47% of UK construction workers feel lonely at work
A new study conducted by 3GEM on behalf of NESCAFÉ Make Chat Work surveyed 350 UK construction workers/tradespeople in SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) companies of 5-250 employees, in October 2022 revealed that 47% of UK construction workers feel lonely … Continue reading
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AJ: City of London looks to ‘retrofit first’ policy for its future City Plan
The Architects’ Journal (AJ) has reported that draft measures debated by councillors on the City’s local planning committee last month (27 April) highlighted the corporation’s intention to place greater weight on retrofitting in its 2040 City Plan. image for illustration: … Continue reading
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Large proportion of levelling up funding left untouched
Levelling up has been one of the biggest focuses for local authorities recently, but according to the Labour Party, central government has spent less than 10% of the funding that it has committed to levelling up, reports Public Sector Executive. … Continue reading
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APS indicates safety is at risk as construction sector struggles for staff
Research from the Association for Project Safety [APS] reveals the UK’s built environment is at risk of becoming less safe as the industry fails to attract new staff. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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HES Regulatory Framework: ‘How we provide regulatory and advisory services in the planning and other consenting systems’
The new Historic Environment Scotland (HES) framework document explains HES’s approach to regulatory and advisory services in the planning and other consenting systems, and is designed for anyone who engages with these services or wants to understand more about its … Continue reading
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