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- IHBC’s 2025 AGM concludes, featuring Griff Rhys Jones on #IHBCShrewsbury2025, new trustees (and old), a ‘stop-press’ update on our Charter-linked Memorandum and much more… 16/05/2025
- IHBC congratulates Conservation Wiki partner Designing Buildings as it reaches 20,000 articles 16/05/2025
- HE’s Chief Executive Duncan Wilson offers online welcome & Q&A at IHBC’s 2025 Day School, 13/06: #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – Schools… ‘one of the pre-eminent regular events in… heritage 16/05/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories) 16/05/2025
- IHBC REMINDER– DEADLINE EXTENDED for our Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work Survey: Open to 22 May 16/05/2025
- IHBC ‘Philosophy’ signpost from Designing Buildings: AI is killing the goose that laid the golden egg 16/05/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s weekly works: Church body seeks architect for works and bids, to 23/05 16/05/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: IHBC’s The Cockburn Association’s 150th Annual General Meeting 16/05/2025
- Department for Communities: Condition of NI’s Listed buildings declines by almost 25% in twenty years 16/05/2025
- Government on PBIS: Reforms to get Britain building will boost economy by billions 16/05/2025
- The Wildlife Trusts: Government amendment to Planning Bill threatens nature and infrastructure delivery… removing statutory consultees from NSIPs pre-app process 16/05/2025
- HSDS User Needs Survey (Year 1) open to 31 May 16/05/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Arran announced as 10th UNESCO Global Geopark in UK 16/05/2025
- IHBC welcomes Hirst Conservation to HESPR – IHBC’s register of quality-assured conservation and heritage practices 13/05/2025
- IHBC’s President keynote on ‘Historic & Heritage Places and Assets’, an essential heritage perspective, ‘… a huge focus at UKREiiF 2025’, Leeds, 20 May 13/05/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School 2025 pre-conference (and free!) webinars: Accessible & engaging learning for all (and special CPD for Conservation Professionals), with Dr Andy Wigley on ‘Shrewsbury’s Built Heritage..’, 15/5 13/05/2025
- IHBC REMINDER– DEADLINE EXTENDED for our Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work Survey: Open to 22 May 13/05/2025
- IHBC’s Management signpost: ‘An independent review of Defra’s regulatory landscape…’ 13/05/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Defra, via LinkedIn, seeks 30 new Board Members for England’s NPAs etc, to 19/05 13/05/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Irish) doorstep’: Thatch Repair Grant Scheme Opens in Donegal (with a little on ‘Fire Risk’) 13/05/2025
- Government: Experimental AI could help councils meet housing targets by digitising records to make planning data accessible 13/05/2025
- Local heritage to be protected with £20Mn funding 13/05/2025
- Wales Consultation: A New Approach to Volunteering in Wales: Closing 30/05 13/05/2025
- UK Government: Record £13.9Bn of R&D funding unveiled to boost innovation, jobs and growth 13/05/2025
- Defra seeks 30 Board Members of National Park Authorities and National Landscape Conservation Boards: to 19/05 13/05/2025
Daily Archives: 05/04/2024
IHBC 2024 AGM UPDATE: Online, 30/04, with Robyn Pender from 5.30pm for 6.00pm AGM – Proxy voting urged for eligible members
[slideshow_deploy id=’39564′] The IHBC’s 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024 programme will take place online on 30 April 2024, from 5.30pm with Dr Robyn Pender opening the CPD programme, on ‘… energy in buildings…’, exclusively for ALL IHBC membership categories, … Continue reading
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IHBC registers sadness at passing of Peter Richards: ACO founder member… ‘aware that [ours] was a young profession’ and ‘not afraid to fight a difficult cause’…
The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is gently marking the recent passing of a founding member of the Association of Conservation Officers (ACO) and its first Treasurer, offering thoughts and select signposts to his achievements, including to his obituary … Continue reading
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‘Money is (still) not the barrier’: Bursaries extended for IHBC’s 2024 School, #IHBCReading2024, 12/13-15 June – ‘Submit now to be next on the list!’
Bursaries from the IHBC’s UK-wide allocation are still available for the 2024 Annual School in Reading, 12/13-15 June – #IHBCReading2024 – on ‘Place & Building Care: Finance, policy & people in conservation practice’, offering some of the most accessible and … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes South-East Branch Day School and AGM 2024: ‘Levelling Up our World Heritage’ Canterbury, 26/04, from £35
The South East Branch Day School and AGM for 2024, to be held in Canterbury on 26 April will provide an unique insight into the local management of a World Heritage Site, with a focus on the legislative and policy … Continue reading
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IHBC’s AI in ‘Practice’ Signpost No. 1: De-jargoning AI, on videos, courtesy WBEF AND RICS
‘Technical and AI jargon: Explanation of the technology changing the built and natural environment’ from the RICS and its World Built Environment Forum (WBEF), is now available to view free on Youtube. image for illustration
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £558K+ works this week: DC seeks Conservation Area review, to 19/04, £50-60K
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 is a call from a District Council (DC) for … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Cherwell DC on public concern over former Unicorn Hotel pub, Banbury
Cherwell District Council (DC) reports that it has obtained a warrant and entered the former Unicorn Hotel pub on Market Square in Banbury following failure of the owner to respond to requests for updates on their plans to protect the … Continue reading
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Landscape and Carbon: New report tackling carbon reduction in the landscape sector launched by LI and BALI
‘Landscape and Carbon’ is a new report on carbon reduction in the UK landscape sector by the Landscape Institute (LI) and the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI), intended as a direct response to the UK’s target to reach net … Continue reading
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Auction, courtesy of SPAB: Secure your ‘piece of the past’ – and help the future – bidding closes 07/04
Items are now on sale as part of an online auction of 17th to 19th century furniture, textiles and porcelain – with furniture generously bequeathed to SPAB in 1939 by Evelyn Stannus – as bidding, starting from £35, closes on … Continue reading
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Heritage Building Retrofit Toolkit developed by City of London in collaboration with IHBC HESPR member Purcell
IHBC HESPR member Purcell, in collaboration with the City of London, has developed a toolkit that is designed to provide clear and actionable guidance for owners, occupiers and caretakers of historic and listed buildings to help them reduce carbon and … Continue reading
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British Safety Council calls on new Government to put health, safety and wellbeing at the heart of economic growth
In advance of the next UK General Election, the British Safety Council (BSC) has published a manifesto containing policies to support better productivity and growth. image for illustration
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Government saves over 80 community spaces from closure
Community assets including pubs, music venues and sports clubs saved from closure thanks to a major £33.5million package announced by the Government. image for illustration
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