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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Bob Kindred’s must-read review of heritage periodicals 28/10/2025
- Need a MATE? More free online Accreditation guidance and update sessions offered to guide IHBC applicants. 28/10/2025
- 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 28/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ signpost: Institute for Governance report highlights concerns in merger of districts with different service models 28/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: Museum of London demolition plans face judicial review challenge 28/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’:Police warning on dangers of entering fire damaged Woolton Hall 28/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Council welcomes full Government funding for Southport pier restoration 28/10/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: BD on the ‘litany of failures’ in external insulation captured by National Audit Office (NAO) 28/10/2025
- AHF: Full Steam Ahead.. Celebrating the Past, Present and Future of Railway Heritage for Railway 200 28/10/2025
- HES is Talking about Heritage, till December 7 28/10/2025
- Three new Commissioners appointed to HE Board 28/10/2025
- Interim Chief Construction Adviser appointed, to ‘… provide expert, independent advice to… government on building safety and regulatory reform’ 28/10/2025
- Cultural Enterprises Awards 2026 launched: ‘celebrating success and creativity in cultural income generation’ 28/10/2025
- 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
Monthly Archives: January 2024
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (night-time) Doorstep’: Anger as illegal £500,000 house floods hamlet with lights ‘like a Mars invasion’
A businessman’s illegal £500,000 home is facing demolition after neighbours saw it light up ‘like an alien invasion from Mars’ at night, reports Yahoo News.
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Britain’s heritage attractions suffer rise in graffiti, anti-social behaviour and verbal abuse
Research carried out by Ecclesiastical has highlighted anti-social pressures for heritage as ‘Nine in 10 report experiencing crime during the past 12 months’.
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Scottish construction apprentice support scheme ends after 90 years
The removal of requirements for mandatory registration of traditional craft apprentices with the Scottish Building Apprenticeship and Training Council (SBATC) has led to its demise. image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: New President of European Strawbuilding Association: Cypren Edmunds
Cypren Edmunds has been announced as the new President of the European Strawbuilding Association (ESBA). image Linkedin Profile
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The New Year Honours List 2024: IHBC welcomes honours recognising personal contributions to linked sectors
The IHBC’s Chair David McDonald has welcomed the recognition of their personal contributions to the diverse sectors, disciplines, roles and activities on which sustainable and effective conservation outcomes rely, including especially the IHBC’s own Philip Davies.
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IHBC offers New Year cheers for ‘Top 20 articles of 2023’ from Designing Buildings’
Designing Buildings (DB) – partner host of the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki service – has issued its Top 20 articles of 2023, which range from ‘Bill of quantities‘ (1), through Megacities (5) to Building Services (20), offering a full range of … Continue reading
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LAST DAY… IHBC seeks paid expert leads for priority new topics in Branch CPD training: ‘Fire Protection’, ‘Enforcement’ and ‘Placemaking & Design Codes’: Closing tomorrow, 6 January 2024
The IHBC is seeking ‘expressions of interest’ from nationally recognised lead conservation experts in three new priority areas: ‘Fire Protection & Regulations’, ‘Enforcement’, and ‘Placemaking & Design Codes’ as it expands the IHBC Branch CPD training pilot, which funds locally … Continue reading
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Reminder: IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 2-3 Feb 2024
The IHBC is delighted to offer free entry for our members to the Listed Property Owners Club’s (LPOC) annual London Listed Property Show, on 2-3 February in London’s Olympia (pre-booking essential).
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IHBC ‘Research for Practice’ Signpost: Bartlett study highlights unhealthy impacts of permitted development homes
Thousands of homes built under office-to-residential permitted development rights could be harmful to the health of their occupants, an exploratory study by the Bartlett School of Planning has indicated. image for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £790K+ works: Combined authority seeks business consultant for heritage etc. services, closing 26/01, valued £90K
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 the call from a combined authority for a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Highland) Doorstep’: Sheik needs new lodge in Highlands for entourage
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum wants to build an 11-bedroom lodge on the 63,000 acre Inverinate Estate, reports the Press and Journal, ‘because of the sheikh’s entourage’.
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Land trusts: Consultation on corruption crackdown in the property sector, to 21/02
A government consultation has been launched on how to ensure greater transparency and tackle corruption in the property sector, by making it clearer who owns land trusts, closing 21/02. image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Case study from the BBC: West Midlands churches etc. helped by LPW funding to ease VAT pain on repairs
A BBC post highlights how dozens of churches and cathedrals in the West Midlands have been helped by thousands of pounds in funding towards their VAT costs on building repairs, thanks to The Listed Places of Worship (LPW) Grant Scheme. … Continue reading
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Defining 2023 in digital construction – the best-read BIM stories from BIMPlus
Standards, the golden thread, digital twins, a TV documentary and, yes, AI and ChatGPT dominated the headlines this year for BIMPlus, as it lists the top 10 most popular BIM stories of 2023, from tenth to first. image for illustration
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Canada hotel (220-tonne) move helped with 700 soap bars
A 220-tonne hotel of 1826 in Canada’s Nova Scotia, which faced demolition, was saved and moved using an unusual method – hundreds of bars of soap. image for illustration
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