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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
Daily Archives: 22/08/2023
IHBC welcomes ‘Seaside Heritage Network’s Top Ten Bucket and Spade Seaside Experiences’, 11/09, Blackpool’s Winter Gardens, with special guest Wayne Hemingway
The IHBC is delighted to support the Seaside Heritage Network’s ‘Top Ten Bucket and Spade Seaside Experiences’ review, with ‘in conversation’ guest Wayne Hemingway, in the Winter Gardens and hosted by Blackpool Council, 2-5 pm, 11/09, with a free optional … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Research & Practice Signpost: Work-related fatal injuries in GB… 135 killed in work-related accidents in 2022/23 (RIDDOR)
Officially, 135 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the 2022/23 Reporting of Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) update, with the construction and agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors continuing to account for the greatest number of workers killed … Continue reading
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Build you career with the IHBC’s Student Award – for relevant coursework ‘written, designed or made’: Enjoy £500 + free IHBC School, and join our list of winners
The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award closes on 31 August this year, so if you have relevant coursework from a UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, whether ‘written, designed or made’ – from the two years to … Continue reading
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Time to celebrate ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’: SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award closes 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 Petition for Charter survey update: Still time to add your thoughts to our #IHBCPetitionforCharter initiative
David Williams, IHBC’s independent consultant on the investigation of a Petition for Charter – #IHBCPetitionforCharter – has compiled a member survey to ‘gather initial thoughts from members and stakeholders’, asking especially for ‘frank…comments’ on behalf of both.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’ double-up: DB on IHBC-Supported APPG briefing + AJ on ‘crooked house’ demolition & protection issues
IHBC’s weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’ to our heritage business register HESPR – Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition – this week features Designing Buildings (DB) on ‘Community involvement in heritage regeneration’ from Parliament (and the IHBC), and the Architect’s Journal … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Man ordered to bulldoze mansion built without planning permission
A man who built a five-bedroom mansion without permission has been ordered to bulldoze it after losing a planning battle with the local council as it had a ‘negative impact’ on the area and was not in keeping with its … Continue reading
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Building Safety Regulator announces first step towards regulating the building control profession
The Building Safety Regulator has announced two independent provider schemes for building control professionals to take the first step in becoming registered building inspectors.
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RIBA’s Reinvention Award 2023: Celebrating creative & sustainable transformation of a building
The Reinvention Award announced by Royal Institute of British Architects(RIBA) celebrates the creative transformation of an existing building and the project’s vital improvement to environmental, social, or economic sustainability.
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World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize: Open to 22/09
Nominations are now open for the 2024 World Monuments Fund(WMF)-Knoll Modernism Prize until September 22, 2023
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Scotland’s £65M nature restoration fund invites conservation projects to apply now
Scotland’s £65M nature restoration fund invites projects to apply now as conservation projects that aim to put Scotland’s land, rivers and seas back on the road to recovery are being invited to apply to a multi-million pound nature restoration fund.
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Huge blaze in abandoned £25M mansion dubbed ‘The Towers’ on Billionaires’ row in north London
A huge blaze broke out in an abandoned and largely derelict mansion worth £25 million on Billionaires row in north west London, known as ‘The Towers’. image: Martin Addison / The Bishops Avenue – Commons Wikimedia
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DEFRA Consultation on Protecting Hedgerows closes 20/09
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has launched a consultation on protecting hedgerows which closes on 20 September. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Reuters on Western Australia scrapping 2021 Aboriginal heritage protection laws
Western Australia state has scrapped new Aboriginal heritage protection laws after just five weeks because of opposition from landowners, reports Reuters.
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