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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: 14/07/2023
IHBC’s 2023 Yearbook now out, commended in Lord Parkinson’s ministerial foreword for highlighting ‘the importance of working together’, all for reference, learning and promotion
With more than 5000 copies of the IHBC’s 2023 Yearbook in circulation and offering even more dimensions to our #IHBCSwansea2023 School – ‘Climate Change and the Historic environment’ – England’s Minister for Arts and Heritage Lord Parkinson concludes his foreword … Continue reading
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IHBC-supported APPG on Conservation Places and People pays tribute to former vice chair, the late Lord Kerslake
The IHBC-supported, UK-wide All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for ‘Conservation, Places and People’ has offered condolences to the family of the late Lord ‘Bob’ Kerslake, its former vice chair, both in writing and in person at its recent Parliamentary briefing, … Continue reading
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IHBC ‘Intervention’ Signpost: Eric Lyons’ Richmond house to be demolished following planning appeal
Proctor & Shaw’s plans to knock down a house in south-west London, designed by post-war architect Eric Lyons, have been approved on appeal.
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IHBC’s ‘Finance & Economics’ signpost: ‘Financing Climate Adaptation—and Deciding What to Let Go’, from Harvard Magazine
An article in Harvard Magazine explores how financial markets have already begun to price in the probability of climate disasters, making future adaptation efforts more expensive and driving inequity. image: for illustration
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £78K+ costed works this week: Welsh council seeks Heritage & Structural survey of GII LB, 28K, closing 19/07
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 Welsh Council … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Catholic) doorstep’: The Tablet on ‘Chapel at Ushaw gutted by fire’
E.W. Pugin’s Grade II* chapel at the former seminary of Ushaw College, near Durham, has been badly damaged by fire in a suspected arson attack, with the Junior House has also suffering damage, reports The Tablet. Photo: The Tablet – … Continue reading
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Scottish SPICe grills… Climate Change 3: Net Zero – What does it mean and what happens afterwards?
In response to global warming, many countries have put in place ambitions for net zero emissions by a certain date and a new blog from SPICe (Scottish Parliament Information Centre) considers what is meant by net zero emissions and what … Continue reading
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Government launches regulated Professions Register – Check which professions are regulated in the UK
The UK government has launched the Regulated Professions Register (RPR), an online source of information for professionals and businesses in the UK and overseas.
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Scotland’s Make Your Mark awarded £142k by Lottery … ‘to make heritage volunteering accessible to all’
The Make Your Mark in Volunteering campaign has received a Heritage Fund grant of £142,722, to help support everyone in Scotland to volunteer with their cultural, built and natural heritage.
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AHF publishes new five-year strategy for 2023-28
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has announced the launch of its 2023-28 Strategy, which sets out its mission, values and priorities, and describes its strategic aims for the next five years, including its 50th anniversary in 2026.
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Call for entries to European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards 2024 now open
With entries for the European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards 2024 now open, the deadline to apply is Friday, 13 October.
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