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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: 20/10/2023
IHBC launches updated Competence ‘descriptors’ – new written guidance on each IHBC Competence
Following extensive consultation and reviews, the IHBC Board has adopted updated Competence ‘descriptors’ – the supplementary guidance detailing each IHBC Competence to be used in our applications and assessments processes – launched today as another outcome from our 25th Anniversary … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: Scottish Construction Now publishes response to readers’ survey and planning series by Ian Aikman, HOPS chair
Scotland’s leading planner – Ian Aikman, chair of Heads of Planning Scotland (HOPS) – has responded to the ‘Scotland’s broken planning system’ series of Scottish Construction Now (SCN), noting the ‘demographic time-bomb’ facing planning departments. image for illustration: Open Government … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £15K+ costed works: Conservation team sought for GB+ building in Northern Ireland, closing 10/11
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 a call for a conservation team for repair … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (landlord’s) doorstep’: EPCs are useless, wrong and easily rigged – new research
‘Shocking’ new research shows that Energy Performance Certificates are inaccurate at best, useless at worst, and easily rigged, reports Landlord Today. image for illustration
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Senedd Wales Oral Statement from Deputy Minister: Cadw – on engaging communities with heritage
On 26 September 2023, an oral statement was made in the Senedd: Cadw by Dawn Bowden Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism on engaging communities with heritage.
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Proposed Desecration of War Memorials (Prevention) (Scotland) Bill: Consultation closes 19/12
Meghan Gallacher, Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party proposes a Members Bill the Desecration of War memorials (prevention)(Scotland), with a consultation closing on 19 December 2023. image: part of the Consultation by Meghan Gallacher MSP Member for Central Scotland
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CLC Biodiversity Roadmap consultation launched
The Biodiversity and Environmental Net Gain Working Group, a workstream of the Green Construction Board in the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), has launched a consultation on its Biodiversity Roadmap.
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BSI updates PAS 2035/2030 and PAS 2035/2030
In light of the urgent need to decarbonize 27 million UK homes, British Standards Institution (BSI) has updated the document that describes how to conduct retrofits on existing dwellings to improve their energy efficiency.
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DLUHC call for participation in Authority-Wide Design Codes Survey: closing 31/10
England’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is inviting local authorities to take part in a short survey (closing 31/10) relating to the requirement proposed in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill for local authorities to prepare an … Continue reading
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Non-Executive Director sought for UK National Commission for UNESCO, to 14/11
The UK National Commission for UNESCO is inviting applications for a pro bono Non-Executive Director (NED) with expertise and experience in the field of Culture with a focus on the World Heritage Convention, closing 14/11.
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