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- IHBC celebrates learning, partnerships, friends and more at #IHBCShrewsbury2025, with thanks to all involved, and looks ahead to 2026, in June, in Newcastle, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ 16/06/2025
- IHBC seeks ‘Branch Consultants’ with strong interpersonal, IT & comms skills for flexible part-time (typically 4 hours/week) regional support: Help boost locally-led conservation and volunteers, @£25/hour + expenses, closes 18 July 16/06/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories 16/06/2025
- IHBC Signpost: DBW The Construction Wiki: The Gridshell – what is a gridshell? 16/06/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £500K of weekly works: Council seeks park bridge assessments, to 26/06, £15K 16/06/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: WAF 25on ‘Lies, damn lies, and Homes England statistics’ 16/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Historic England gives £500K to Winter Gardens project 16/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Huge bill for demolition of unauthorised ‘man cave’ as council to get millionaire to pay 16/06/2025
- HES announces £3.9Mn funding to third-sector organisations 16/06/2025
- AHF funds support revival of Jacobs Wells Baths as ‘multi-use hub’ 16/06/2025
- HE’s Advice Note on ‘Historic Almshouses A Guide to Managing Change’ 16/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European heritage Awards/ Europa Nostra Awards 2026 – Apply by 9/09 16/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: IHBC reminds members and networks of ‘LAST CHANCE TO BOOK VIRTUAL SHREWSBURY SCHOOL’, by 12/06 for broadcast and recordings on 13/06 (local times) 10/06/2025
- IHBC’s June ‘CPD Circular’: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events, awards, calls etc., featuring Schools, webinars, Branch CPD partnerships and more 10/06/2025
- IHBC CPD Circular – Special Edition – Your CPD Guide to #IHBCShrewsbury2025 10/06/2025
- IHBC welcomes RICS Friend of the School Jessica Jones – RICS Building Conservation Advisory Group VC – to #IHBCShrewsbury2025: NB Virtual School booking (13/06, from £35+VAT) closes 12/06, 5.00pm 10/06/2025
- IHBC’s SPECIAL OFFER and updates to Conservation Course networks & students: Free access to (and recordings of) our online 2025 Shrewsbury ‘Virtual School’ (13 June) and more… 10/06/2025
- IHBC’s NewsBlog launch of Griff Rhys Jones on #IHBCShrewsbury2025 and more: Check out our YouTube channel for community and economics in conservation! 10/06/2025
- IHBC seeks ‘Branch Consultants’ with strong interpersonal, IT & comms skills for flexible part-time (typically 4 hours/week) regional support: Help boost locally-led conservation and volunteers, @£25/hour + expenses, closes 18 July 10/06/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Policy’ Signpost: Natural England’s updated ‘Protected species and development: advice for local planning authorities’ 10/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (business) doorstep’: Leicester’s historic Rialto Bridge faces six-month specialist repair project 10/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Fire damaged Shire Hall in Wales could become a riverside apartment complex, if… 10/06/2025
- Heritage Crafts Red List of Endangered Crafts 2025 published 10/06/2025
- HES consultation on ‘Scotland’s protected historic places… a long-term strategy for heritage designation’ 10/06/2025
- Canal & River Trust announces new chief executive 10/06/2025
Monthly Archives: February 2024
English Heritage Chair, Gerard Lemos CMG CBE, to open IHBC’s Reading Day School, 14/06 as launch approaches
The IHBC is delighted to announce that English Heritage Chair, Gerard Lemos CMG CBE will open the IHBC’s Reading Day School on 14 June – #IHBCReading2024 – with this special day of learning open to in-person and online delegates.
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IHBC seeks nominations for Marsh Awards 2024: ‘Retired IHBC Members’ and/or ‘Successful Learners’ – Closing 31 March 2024
Two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust celebrate, respectively, civic contributions by retired IHBC members and successful learning in heritage skills, offer awards of £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2024 Annual School in Reading … Continue reading
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Interested in serving as an IHBC trustee? As IHBC’s 2024 AGM approaches, check our guidance and see if you want to take your IHBC membership to a new level.
As IHBC’s 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) approaches, this is a good time for members of all categories to review our guidance, support and advice encouraging prospective trustees to join our board.
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IHBC ‘Professional’ Signpost: AI will make industry ‘safer and greener’, says CIOB
Artificial intelligence is supporting construction’s need to build safer, more sustainably and with higher quality. image for illustration
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: IHBC on 2024 AGM
IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features IHBC on its 2024 AGM.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Warwick’s Lord Leycester Hospital sees bumper numbers after £4.5m revamp
One of the country’s most significant Medieval sites has welcomed bumper visitors in the three months since it reopened its doors following a £4.5m renovation, reports UKNewsgroup. image for illustration: Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick by Misterweiss at English Wikipedia – … Continue reading
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Welsh Government launches White Paper consultation on Environmental principles, governance and biodiversity targets
Environmental principles, governance and biodiversity targets: White Paper published by Welsh Government seeking views on strengthening environmental governance in and further address climate change and biodiversity loss.
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English Heritage Appoints New Deputy Chair
Dr Chris Michaels, an English Heritage trustee since March 2023, has been appointed as the charity’s new Deputy Chair. image English Heritage
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Great Musgrave bridge works challenged as infill removal cost revealed
Campaigners have voiced concerns about ‘damaged stonework’ and ‘poor repairs’ at a historic railway bridge in Cumbria which National Highways exhumed last year at an ‘eyewatering’ cost to the taxpayer. image for illustration: Great Musgrave Bridge by RuthAS – Own … Continue reading
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Fife to host permanent national Building Standards Hub
Fife Council’s Cabinet Committee has given approval for the local authority to host a permanent national Building Standards Hub. image for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Europa Nostra and EIB Institute announce ‘7 Most Endangered 2024’ shortlist
The monuments and heritage sites in Europe shortlisted for this year’s edition of the 7 Most Endangered Programme were announced today by Europa Nostra, the European Voice of Civil Society Committed to Cultural and Natural Heritage, and the European Investment … Continue reading
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All IHBC members invited to virtual Council, Tuesday 27/02, 4pm: Free CPD on heritage and political engagement with BEFS, plus the chance inform the 2024 AGM Petition for Charter exploration
All categories of IHBC members are invited to join the IHBC’s next free online Council, which will explore both heritage political engagement in Scotland and beyond plus, in a special pre-AGM Council consultation review of next steps in exploring a … Continue reading
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Interested in serving as an IHBC trustee? As IHBC’s 2024 AGM approaches, check our guidance and see if you want to take your IHBC membership to a new level
As a date for the IHBC’s 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) is being finalised, this is a good time for members of all categories to review our guidance, support and advice encouraging prospective trustees to join our board.
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IHBC seeks nominations for Marsh Awards 2024: ‘Retired IHBC Members’ and/or ‘Successful Learners’ – Closing 31 March 2024
Two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust celebrate, respectively, civic contributions by retired IHBC members and successful learning in heritage skills, offer awards of £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2024 Annual School in Reading … Continue reading
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IHBC’s free webinar, co-hosted by Fit for the Future, for #IHBCReading2024 School: IHBC’s Technical Panel lead John Edwards on ‘Applying BSI’s PAS 2038’, 15/03, 10am
IHBC’s Technical Panel lead John Edwards explores ‘Applying BSI’s PAS 2038 in Retrofitting non-domestic Heritage and Traditional Buildings’ in a free & open webinar on 15 March, co-hosted by Fit for the Future, another free CPD ‘pre-school’ event for IHBC’s … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: Five steps for SMEs bidding for net-zero frameworks
As part of Britain’s net-zero strategy, frameworks will deliver much of the country’s massive retrofit programme, and Jennifer Castle, chief operating officer at LHC Procurement Group, explains the process to Construction Management. image for illustration
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £1.3M+ works this week: Trust seeks conservation management plan consultant, to 04/03
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 this week is a call is a call from a Gallery Trust … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Brum’s Broad Street skyscraper plans approved with unusual rule for residents
Proposals for the skyscraper on Birmingham’s busy and noisy Broad Street will respond to the noise problem with a covenant to require that certain occupiers close their bedroom windows from 11pm until 5am. image for illustration: Broad Street Birmingham Public … Continue reading
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Historic Environment Scotland (HES) seeks new Chief Executive, closing 1 March
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is looking for an exceptional Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with applications closing 01/03.
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Parliament UK’s accessible review of Permitted Development in England: ‘When is planning permission not needed?
The UK Parliament has summarised the position on permitted development rights in England, and why some building works do not need planning permission from the local planning authority. image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of … Continue reading
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New Heritage 2033 National Lottery programme is open for grants from £10,000 to £10million
The Heritage Fund has changed the application guidance and forms to reflect its new strategy, simplified its materials and made its requirements more proportionate to the amount of money being applied for.
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SAVE’s background to ‘crunch court hearing’ for M&S Oxford Street case
As Michael Gove’s landmark ruling has been challenged in the High Court by M&S on procedural grounds, SAVE Britain’s Heritage outlines the background. image for illustration: Gary Rogers / Marks and Spencer. Commons Wikimedia
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Climate Change and UNESCO Heritage Pilot Project – ‘…test models… new approaches and data tools..’
The Climate Change and UNESCO Heritage pilot project will bring public and private bodies and their data together within three UK UNESCO heritage sites to develop and test models of improved joint working plus new approaches and data tools to … Continue reading
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IHBC Welcomes VELUX as Reception Sponsor at our 2024 Reading Annual School: #IHBCReading2024
The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is delighted to announce VELUX, as the Reception Sponsor at the Institute’s 2024 Annual School , #IHBCReading2024, with the reception to be held on Thursday 13 June to launch the IHBC’s 2024 Reading … Continue reading
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IHBC seeks nominations for Marsh Awards 2024: ‘Retired IHBC Members’ and/or ‘Successful Learners’ – Closing 31 March 2024
Two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust celebrate, respectively, civic contributions by retired IHBC members and successful learning in heritage skills, offer awards of £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2024 Annual School in Reading … Continue reading
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