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- IHBC’s Director joins RICHeS Programme Board: ‘Honoured, of course, but mostly I’m impressed by the £80M of research opportunities for historic and built environment conservation’ 20/02/2026
- Don’t need your paper Context? Do everyone a favour and pass it on, ‘Spreading the Word’ to help the Conservation Professional! 20/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 20/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 20/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Unlock Access to RICHeS Research Infrastructure with Full Access Fund Call now Open with ‘Help’ webinar on 11/03 20/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: Designing Buildings & more on Restoration and Renewal at Westminster 20/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: LPA Planning Capacity and Capability Survey 2025 20/02/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s weekly works: Charity seeks PM for heritage regeneration project, to 02/03 20/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Legal bid to protect Scots brutalist landmark from bulldozer 20/02/2026
- Delivering restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: the costed proposals published 20/02/2026
- Government plans to train next generation of construction workers 20/02/2026
- SAVE’s Buildings at Risk register (BaR) – Call for Entries 2026 20/02/2026
- York Consortium for Craft and Conservation opens applications for Bursaries for 2026, to 16/03 20/02/2026
- Government Consultation on Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance, to 10/03 20/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: National Residential Retrofit Plan 2026 for Ireland’ makes upgrades more affordable and accessible 20/02/2026
- Bursaries for #IHBCNewcastle2026 open to 13/04, 18-20 June: ‘Submit now to be next on the list!’ 17/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 17/02/2026
- IHBC President’s ‘Members only’ Invitation to next Virtual Council: Online, 8 April 2026, from 4.30pm – Scoping ‘Investigation’ of conservation in local government, with a call for suggestions etc. 17/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 17/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: Great Expectations Conference update by the National Churches Trust – Recordings now available 17/02/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s NewsBlog on ‘BOOKING OPEN for IHBC’s Full School (June 18-20): #IHBCNewcastle2026’ 17/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Heritage charity to change name after sale of 20,000-acre estate 17/02/2026
- National Heritage Emergency declared by Stoke-on-Trent – ‘first for a UK City’ – as Potteries needs £325Mn investment over the next decade 17/02/2026
- Nominations open for the Plowden Medal Conservation Award 2026, to 15/05 17/02/2026
- LPOC announces Listed & Modern Architectural Awards 2026 17/02/2026
Daily Archives: 25/07/2023
Join IHBC’s Consultation Panel: Stay current on policy etc., develop skills, target CPD… AND help IHBC’s charitable operations
All IHBC members are invited to apply for membership of the IHBC’s Consultations Panel.
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2023 celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’: Enter online before 1/09/23
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2023 joint Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) celebrating ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, now open for submissions and closing … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ signpost: Colouring London invites IHBC to ‘help colouring in our maps’
Colouring London, an online mapping platform that collects data on the characteristics and history of London’s buildings, says to HBC members: ‘We would love your help colouring in our maps.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Dezeen features Brutalist Berlin building saved from demolition
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 Dezeen on the Brutalist Mäusebunker building saved from demolition in … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Former HMRC offices gain Grade II after University of Nottingham purchase
Nottingham’s Castle Meadow office buildings, which were occupied by around 2,000 HM Revenue & Customs workers until 2021, have been Grade II-listed by the Department of Culture Media and Sport, reports Nottinghamshire Live. image for illustration: Castle Meadow Business Park … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Glasgow councillors knock back award-winning plans for new homes
Council planners have upheld a previous decision to refuse permission to build four mews properties in North Kelvinside over the impact it would have on neighbours, reports Glasgow Live. image for illustration: M J Richardson / Queen Margaret Drive from near Queen … Continue reading
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Europe’s 7 Most Endangered Heritage Sites 2023 announced
The list of the 7 Most Endangered monuments and heritage sites in Europe for 2023 has been announced by Europa Nostra, the European Voice of Civil Society Committed to Cultural and Natural Heritage, and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute.
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Reuse Me, Don’t Lose Me: SAVE’s 2023 Buildings at Risk New Entries List
SAVE Britain’s Heritage has added nearly 70 new entries to the Buildings at Risk register, bringing the total number of empty historic buildings at risk of demolition or dereliction on the register to over 1,400.
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Circular Built Environment says: ‘… we cannot continue exceeding the limits…’
A new report ‘Our Shared Understanding- a circular economy in the built environment’ indicates that we cannot continue exceeding the limits of our finite planet.
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Dr Wei Yang becomes CIC’s first female Chair
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has inaugurated Dr Wei Yang as Chair at its Council Meeting.
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AHRC: £1m invested in research on UK museum closures
Capital from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will allow the Mapping Museum research team to map UK-wide closures and collection dispersal until 2025. image: By Dun.can from Melton Mowbray, UK – Pollock’s Toy Museum, CC BY 2.0,
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