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- IHBC updates on ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’: Check out our web hub, with video & feedback, and help reduce damage to both health and heritage 05/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 05/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 05/12/2025
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 05/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ signpost: HE’s Technical Advice on ‘Historic and Traditional Buildings at Risk of Flooding’ – mitigation & adaptation for flood types & construction to energy efficiency & more 05/12/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £7M+ of weekly works: Town Council seeks team for urban development enhancement project, to 12/12 & £1M 05/12/2025
- Planning Aid bodies across the UK unite in landmark agreement to share expertise and strengthen public engagement 05/12/2025
- The Heritage Alliance on ‘What the Autumn Budget Means for the Heritage Sector’ 05/12/2025
- Heritage Network: Impact Report 2025 issued 05/12/2025
- CIC Responds to the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget 05/12/2025
- RSPB: New ‘More in Common’ report shows people don’t want new homes to be built at nature’s expense 05/12/2025
- New director of careers and education joins RTPI 05/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: European Heritage Hub’s ‘Call for good practices’ – ‘Cultural heritage as an asset for the green, digital and social transformation’, to 19/12 05/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes Budget’s financial boost for planning, supporting RTPI’s call for long-term investment as ‘the key to building capacity’ 02/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 02/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Volcanic rocks could store captured CO2, Edinburgh University study finds 02/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: BDP on ‘Redeveloping Plymouth Civic Centre’ 02/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: ‘Failings at every level’ resulted in botched insulation scheme, MPs told 02/12/2025
- Government confirms National Covid Memorial Wall will be preserved 02/12/2025
- ICON: Pilgrim Trust supports ‘Conservation Skills at Risk’ with £45,000 grant 02/12/2025
- Government reappoints 3 Trustees to the National Heritage Memorial Fund 02/12/2025
- Parliamentary Committee: Nature not a ‘blocker’ to housing; needed for ‘resilient towns & neighbourhoods’, and calls for housebuilding target changes and reduced VAT (for retrofitting) 02/12/2025
- £2Mn Funding boost to protect war memorials across the UK 02/12/2025
- England to benefit from two new national forests backed by £1 billion investment in tree planting 02/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: A town wants to give away its 100-year-old convent: is it a housing solution? 02/12/2025
Daily Archives: 23/04/2024
First ‘priority CPD’ guidance out for #IHBCReading2024 School, globally accessible from only £30+VAT: ‘Management’ Competences -‘Legislation & Policy’, ‘Finance & Economics’, 12/13-15 June
[slideshow_deploy id=’39721′] The IHBC’s initial CPD guidance tied to the exploration of ‘Place & Building Care…’ at our #IHBCReading2024 School (June 12/13-15; Day School June 14) highlights the focus on priority, ‘hard to access’ CPD across our practice areas – … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Canal and River Trust on ‘Our impact: transforming places, enriching lives’
The Canal and River Trust’s Impact Report highlights the recent work done in 2021-2023 to protect and enhance the canal network for the benefit of current and future generations. image for illustration: Canal &River Trust
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New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’
A new closing date of 30 April has been announced for the two IHBC 2024 Marsh Awards – for ‘civic contributions by retired members’, and for ‘successful learning in heritage skills’ – with awards of £500 and free places at … Continue reading
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IHBC issues 2024 AGM reminders: To voting members, ‘Please complete your proxy form’, and for all, to register in advance for Robyn Pender on ‘… energy in buildings…’, 30/04
IHBC’s Chair David McDonald has reminded voting members to complete proxy voting forms – SHORT or LONG as suits – as back-up arrangements for voting at our 2024 AGM on 30 April, while reminding all to register in advance for … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: ALL HESPR member staff get IHBC member rate at #IHBCReading2024 Virtual School, 14 June, only £30+VAT (Code required)
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 the #IHBCReading2024 School offer to HESPR members of reduced rates … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Controversial demolition of closed Museum of London and office block expected
The controversial demolition of closed Museum of London and neighbouring office block is expected, reports The Evening Standard. image for illustration: Bastion House, London Wall by Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Intangible Cultural Heritage: UK becomes the 183rd State to join UNESCO’s Convention
The United Kingdom (UK) has ratified UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which will be effective on 7 June 2024.
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HES: New Report on Connections Between Properties in Care and the British Empire
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has published a new report entitled ‘Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600-1997.’
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10 New Design Code Pathfinder areas selected
The Office for Place is funding and supporting 10 new areas in England as part of the Design Code Pathfinder Programme. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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BEFS Policy Map for Scotland’s Existing Built Environment Policy Overview Map, Spring 2024
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has issued its ‘Scottish Existing Built Environment Policy Overview Map Spring 2024’.
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Budget boost for farmers and environment with extension to Agricultural Property Relief
Government announces an extension to the existing scope of Agricultural Property Relief. image for illustration
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ADF announces its 2024 brief: ‘Rethinking Home-Adapt and Reuse’
The Adam Davison Foundation (ADF) has announced its 2024 brief for The Davidson Prize, now in its fourth year, ‘Rethinking Home – Adapt and Reuse’. image for illustration
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