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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: 07/07/2023
New Context out, on World Heritage Sites, designation, Armageddon and even more
The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context No. 176, explores the diverse facets of World Heritage Sites alongside a myriad of other aspects of conservation – designation, Armageddon and more – from across our globe.
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IHBC welcomes LGA tribute page for late Lord Kerslake, former vice chair of ‘Conservation, Places and People’ All Party Parliamentary Group (CPP APPG)
The IHBC has welcomed the decision by Local Government Association (LGA) to set up a tribute page following the death of Lord Kerslake, a former vice chair of the IHBC-supported ‘Conservation, Places and People’ All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).
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IHBC Signpost: NAO Press release – The Government’s resources and waste reforms for England
The National Audit Office (NAO) on 30 June 2023 has published a new report on the Government’s resources and waste reforms for England noting it ‘still lacks effective long-term plans to reduce waste’.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from record £44M (million) of costed works: Govt office posts heritage works in Europe, to 21/07, from £16+M
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick for this week features is the call from a UK government … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Chard and Ilminster News applauds SAVE’s online Buildings at Risk Register
A number of buildings in Somerset are among nearly 70 new entries added to SAVE Britain’s Heritage online Buildings at Risk Register, reports the Chard and Ilminster News.
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Scottish SPICe grills Climate Change 1: Adaptation policy
The Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) sets out the various periodically released reports to be aware of that relate to climate adaptation policy in Scotland.
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Sheffield council issues apology over tree-felling scandal
The city’s new Labour leader has accepted that some of the 17,500 trees cut down were healthy. image: for illustration
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Government advice for shoppers after report highlights difficulties buying ‘green’ home heating
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will be carrying out further work looking into potential misleading practices in the green heating and insulation sector. image: for illustration
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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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