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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: 16/01/2024
IHBC’s ‘HESPR News’ feature update: Director’s occasional selection, from 2/01 (& nearly £800K costed works)
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s occasional news listing from the service looks back on news and links from … 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’ Signpost’: Skills for the Transition to Net Zero: Activity across London Government
‘Skills for the Transition to Net Zero’ provides an overview of green skills activity across London local government, identifying key gaps, duplication and opportunities for better co-ordination, while setting out some of the main skills challenges and opportunities around the … Continue reading
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IHBC features Heritage from the doorstep’: Firm tearing down former ‘Banksy building’ in Dover say restoration has begun
Work has begun to restore a Banksy artwork after the building it was spray-painted on was torn down. image for illustration: Banksy in Dover by Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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New Government Guidance for England issued: Adapting historic homes for energy efficiency – a review of the barriers
The Government has published online a review of the barriers to carrying out adaptations to historic buildings in England to make them more energy efficient, together with a summary of current actions and future commitments that highlight the roles of … Continue reading
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St Paul’s ‘Iconic Symbol’ secured in £500k restoration project
St Paul’s Cathedral has been awarded a grant of £500,000 towards the restoration and conservation of its Cupola, Ball and Cross – the structure that rises from the Golden Gallery on top of the Dome – which, at 365ft high, … Continue reading
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AHF: UK towns and cities get £5M funding to help bring disused historic buildings back to life
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has reported that Chatham, Derry/Londonderry and Glasgow are among places where social enterprises and charities are being empowered to take over and transform at-risk high street buildings. image for illustration: Derry City Walls by SeanMack, CC … Continue reading
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£80m for council bids to regenerate brownfield land and build thousands of homes
The third round of £180m Brownfield Land Release Fund 2 is now open to councils to deliver thousands of new homes and jobs. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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NCT: 40 churches saved in time
Forty churches across the UK will stay open and in good repair thanks to £496,625 of funding awarded and recommended by the National Churches Trust (NCT) in its latest round of grants. image for illustration
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IHBC Signpost: Top Construction Management stories from 2023
Crumbling concrete, ‘mutant’ developments, construction’s talent drain… 2023 didn’t run short of eventful news for the industry. image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: World Monuments Watch accepting nominations for 2025, closing 15/03/24
World Monuments Fund (WMF) is accepting nominations for the 2025 World Monuments Watch, to 15 March 2024.
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