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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: 04/07/2023
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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