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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: 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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