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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: 12/01/2024
IHBC raises concerns in consultation response to HE’s draft Advice Note on Climate Change and Historic Building Adaptations (HEAN)
The IHBC has submitted its response to the consultation by Historic England (HE) on its draft ‘Advice Note on Climate Change and Historic Building Adaptations’ (HEAN), with IHBC Policy Chair Roy Lewis highlighting the main concerns.
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Join IHBC’s Consultations Panel: Your chance to keep up on conservation policy, legislation, guidance and much more, while building skills and CPD
IHBC members are invited to join the IHBC’s longstanding Consultations Panel, which offers the chance to offer your take on conservation practice, principles and standards into the IHBC’s conclusions on emerging policy, legislation and guidance, shaping the conservation outcomes of … Continue reading
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IHBC ‘Finance & Economics’ signpost from Ireland: €9M in funding for 2024 built heritage schemes
Malcolm Noonan TD, Ireland’s Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform at Ireland’s Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, launched the Built Heritage Investment Scheme (BHIS) and the Historic Structures Fund (HSF) for 2024.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Cotswold resident broke planning laws in works to farmhouse
The Cotswold resident of Middle Hill Farm, Saintbury, Gloucestershire, pleaded guilty to undertaking unauthorised works to a Grade II listed building, reports Punchline.
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New RTPI report on Welsh planning system explores ways to maximise existing resources
The Building Capacity through Collaboration and Change report from The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) explores how existing resources in the planning system in Wales can be used as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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Three quarters of high streets have air pollution levels above World Health Organisation annual recommendations
A new study from Gridserve measured high street air quality of the 25 biggest British cities and towns, and found only six had air pollution within WHO’s annual recommendations, with Stoke-on-Trent having the highest average air pollution levels and Glasgow … Continue reading
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England’s HEF ‘Heritage Sector Resilience Interviews’: Call for ‘Climate Change’ Participants
England’s Historic Environment Forum (HEF) has issued a call for ‘Climate Change’ Interview Participants in its new Sector Resilience Interview Series. image: HEF website
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High streets levelled up with £7 million funding boost
Government launches new High Street Accelerators pilot to help communities and councils join up on long-term regeneration. image for illustration
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’, looking back: on COP28 Agreement for ‘Beginning of the End’ of Fossil Fuel era
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed with an agreement that signals the ‘beginning of the end’ of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions cuts and … Continue reading
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