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- IHBC’s newest ‘Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’: National Office updates for Branch Officers 24/10/2025
- Need a MATE? More free online Accreditation guidance and update sessions offered to guide IHBC applicants 24/10/2025
- 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 24/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ signpost: Historic England & Defra – ‘… helping to preserve rural heritage for the future’ 24/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £960K+ of weekly works: Nationally significant charity seeks design services for ‘transformational heritage project’, to 10/11 24/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (regal) doorstep’: How the King’s vision is shaping next wave of new towns 24/10/2025
- 7 New Sites Listed by DCMS to Celebrate 200 Years of the Railway 24/10/2025
- BEFS 2026 Manifesto: Building Foundations for a Better Scotland 24/10/2025
- RIBA puts high-quality design on Parliament’s agenda 24/10/2025
- Pathway to Planning – Cohort 4 open to 6/01: … fast track career in the built environment as LG planner or surveyor, from £25K pa 24/10/2025
- Expert Taskforce recommends locations for new towns 24/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Major new study to reveal the value of the UK’s UNESCO sites 24/10/2025
- 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
Monthly Archives: July 2023
New Creative Industries Sector Vision takes up Lords Committee recommendations
The Government has…. published its ‘Creative Industries Sector Vision’. In response Baroness Stowell of Beeston, Chair of the Communications and Digital Committee has welcomed the Government’s adoption of several recommendations previously put forward in the Committee’s report ‘At risk: our … Continue reading
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AHF Transforming Heritage publishes end of Programme Report
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) ‘Transforming Heritage’ programme has published its report ‘Heritage Transformed in Wales and Northern Ireland, 2020-2023, End 0f Programme Report.’
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Europa Nostra calls on European Political Community to include Culture and Cultural Heritage among future EPC priorities
Europa Nostra has called on Heads of State or Government of all European Political Community (EPC) countries to include the key priority areas of culture and heritage on its future agendas. image: Mimi Castle, Bulboaca, Moldova – Helgie12, CC BY-SA … Continue reading
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IHBC’s 2023 Swansea MarketPlace:LIVE: First feedback tranche and more
The IHBC’s revised pilot format for the ‘All welcome’, open-access and free MarketPlace:LIVE – supporting Swansea 2023 – was well received by visitors, and with some 25% responding to the feedback and all but one valuing it as Good to … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Project Signpost: Historic Environment Scotland unveils plans for new Archive House
Innovative project will be an exemplar of reuse and retrofit of an existing building. Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has announced plans for a new state-of-the-art home for its archives. image: HES
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Construction Enquirer on ‘Firms readied for £750m Parliament repairs deal’
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 Construction Enquirer on ‘Firms readied for £750m Parliament repairs deal’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Enfield landowner and contractor fined for tree felling
A landowner and contractor who illegally felled more than 270 protected trees have been ordered to pay more than £255,000, reports the Enfield Independent.
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2023 winners of Europe’s top heritage awards by European Commission & Europa Nostra include the Royal Gardens of Venice and Ukraine data archives
The European Commission and Europa Nostra have announced the winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023, with 30 outstanding heritage achievements from 21 countries awarded Europe’s top honour in the field. image: Europa Nostra website
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New £1.59M scheme to support graduates into town and planning careers: Pathways to Planning Programme
The Department for Levelling Up is granting £1.59 million to a Local Government Association scheme – the Pathways to Planning Programme – to help councils recruit and develop more skilled planners. image: for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Metal detectorist convicted and fined €1k for failing to report discovery of archaeological objects
A metal detectorist has been convicted and fined €1,000 for failing to report the discovery of archaeological objects which have now been returned to the State.
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New funding for farmers to protect the English landscape
Farmers and landowners will receive funding and support for projects to protect and restore thousands of acres of the English landscape, Government UK has announced. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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HE launches Missing Pieces Project: Add Your Pieces to the Big Picture
Historic England (HE) has launches its Missing Pieces Project, inviting members of the public to be part of the project. image: HE website
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New York City is sinking, study says… include lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens…
The pressure from New York City’s massive buildings and skyscrapers is making the city more vulnerable to sink lower into the ocean, according to new research. image: Matt Nelson, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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