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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: 08/09/2023
IHBC asks members: Are you aware of heritage buildings threatened by RAAC? If so, please let us know at services@ihbc.org.uk
The IHBC is asking members to help us, and/or England’s The Heritage Alliance (THA), scope heritage issues linked to the Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) problems currently headlining mainly for their impact on schools in England. image: for illustration – … Continue reading
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IHBC offers condolences on death of founding-director of Cathedral Communication, IHBC’s publishers and advisers
The IHBC offers our sincere condolences on the death of Gordon Sorensen, Cathedral Communications Director, and longstanding supporter of IHBC publications, especially Context and our Yearbook, with a tribute to be published in the December issue of Context. image courtesy … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: ‘Will AI ever be able to design buildings?’ DB asks ChatGPT
A new Designing Building post asks ChatGPT if ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI), will ever be able to design buildings. image for illustration
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £169K+ costed works: Duo of heritage projects from Scotland – one monitoring, one masterplanning – from £29K
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 this week features two calls from Scotland: for contractor support for heritage monitoring & evaluation, and for … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage (previously) from the doorstep’: Stirling’s Christie Clock Tower demolition ‘over safety’ sparks Council investigation
A clock tower which stood in Stirling for 117 years has been controversially and dramatically demolished by the local council over safety fears., and the Council has promised an investigation. image: for illustration – Christie Clock, Stirling by AllyD – … Continue reading
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£4.1M helps save remarkable heritage at risk in Wales, including Gwrych Castle
Lifesaving support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) COVID-19 Response Fund for buildings impacted by the pandemic. image: Gwrych Castle, NHMF website
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RICS launches its first Women in Surveying insight report
For the first time in the Institution’s history, RICS has produced a ‘Women in surveying: insight report’ that looks at the makeup of membership from a binary gender perspective and analyses the results of the flagship 2022 survey of women … Continue reading
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HE rolling out ‘Carbon Literacy Training’ courses to sector
Historic England is looking to deliver Carbon Literacy Training courses across the heritage sector to support organisations on their journeys to Net Zero. image: The Carbon Literacy Project website
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From the Archives of SPAB: How a scandal around fireplaces led to greater protections for ancient buildings
To mark the 110th anniversary of the Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendments Act, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) has looked at how the threat to Tattershall Castle helped to bring about some of the first real … Continue reading
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