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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: 29/08/2023
Last chance in 2023 to build you career with the IHBC’s Student Award – submit relevant coursework ‘written, designed or made’ for £500, free IHBC 2024 School + more
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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Last Chance 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 Practice Signpost: BSI on ‘PDF- A digital hammer for the built environment’
When it comes to sharing information, no tool is as widely used as Portable Document Format (PDF), and as a data format, PDF is incredibly durable….
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Dezeen on the campaign to save Breuer’s Cape Cod holiday home
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 campaign to save Marcel Breuer’s Cape Cod … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Emergency services respond to fire at historic Royal Albion Hotel
Brighton & Hove City Council has thanked the emergency services after a fire broke out at the historic Royal Albion Hotel. image for illustration: By The Voice of Hassocks – Own work, Public Domain
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Edinburgh’s Royal High School – Preservation Trust ditches Music School plan
The former Royal High School will not be used as a site for St Mary’s Music School in a major change to plans by the Royal High School Preservation Trust, reports The Edinburgh Reporter. image: for illustration – Fiona Newton
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Defra/Natural England LA ‘Survey on Local Landscape Designations’, to 6/09
Natural England is interested in hearing from local authorities (LAs) to understand the current use of local landscape designation (LLD) policies in development plans, with a survey that closes on 8 September. image: for illustration – P Badcock
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New survey shows Lottery’s ‘Heritage 2033’ plans ‘support heritage need and is relevant to organisations’ priorities’
In March, The Heritage Fund launched Heritage 2033, which sets out how it will invest in the UK’s heritage over the next decade, and its latest UK Heritage Pulse survey received positive feedback on the plan. image of Jodrell Bank … Continue reading
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DCMS: Rest of charities £100M spring budget funding to be paid out from December
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has revealed that the second part of the £101.5m package for charities announced in the spring budget will be distributed from December, Civil Society reports.
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English Heritage breathes new life into endangered heritage skills with ground breaking apprenticeship programme
English Heritage is helping support endangered heritage skills with its apprenticeship programme supported by a donation of £11.2m by UK charity, the Hamish Ogston Foundation – the largest in English Heritage’s history. image: for illustration – Hamish Ogston Foundation website
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Lottery & HES: Putting heritage at the heart of regenerating places
Heritage can be a powerful force to drive successful regeneration projects and ensure local people are involved and engaged from the outset, reports the The Heritage Fund as it ‘joins forces’ with Historic Environment Scotland (HES).
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New Natural England guidance supports integrating the historic environment and nature recovery
Natural England has published new guidance for staff and networks working on nature recovery about how to integrate the Historic Environment into developing projects.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global Doorstep’: ‘Union Chain Bridge (GI/CatA) designated as ASCE Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
The conclusion of three years of restoration work on the Union Chain Bridge linking England and Scotland across the River Tweed has been formally marked as the structure was declared as an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American … Continue reading
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