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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- 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 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
Monthly Archives: July 2024
IHBC’s Context 180’s BUMPER issue, Part 2: Special Features update, from slavery, world heritage and grottos to a library battle… just to start
The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context, No. 180, as well as its themed articles – on heritage and nature – includes a wide range of topical features, with the spotlight here on John Preston’s ‘Take 2’ on … Continue reading
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2024 now open: Celebrating ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, enter work from 2022 by 1/09 2024
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2024 joint Heritage Research Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) to celebrate ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, with submissions welcomed … Continue reading
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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 launches Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot for Local Authority conservation staff (with personal guidance too): Open to applicants from 15/07 to 30/08/2024, so pass the word!
The IHBC will soon launch a new Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot – developed from recent pilots – specifically aimed at helping existing Local Authority heritage, planning and conservation staff progress from Supporter to Affiliate membership, and maybe beyond, with applications closing … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Arch Daily reports on ‘The Hidden Carbon Cost of Climate Retrofits’
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’s special news features Arch Daily on ‘The Hidden Carbon Cost of … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (council) doorstep’: Built Heritage Commission for Glasgow established by Council
image for illustration: By Ian Dick from Glasgow, UK – Dawn over Glasgow, CC BY 2.0 A Built Heritage Commission (BHC) for Glasgow has now been established to provide advice on a wide variety of heritage related matters in the … Continue reading
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Shortlist for CITB Top 100 most influential women in construction 2024 announced
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The shortlist for the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) ‘Top 100 Most Influential Women in Construction 2024’ is now out.
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Scotland’s National Retrofit Centre to become non-domestic retrofit demonstrator
image for illustration BE-ST (Built Environment – Smarter Transformation) has announced that it has been awarded over £1.2M in grant funding from the Scottish Government’s Salix Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund, to retrofit the Accelerator Lab at its Hamilton Technology … Continue reading
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RTPI Blog on Volunteering:…’a great way to grow your network’
The RTPI blog on volunteering is from Ifeanyi Chukwujekwu, a chartered planner and an Appeals Planning Officer at the Planning Inspectorate, as he promotes volunteering as a rewarding activity with great networking opportunities.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Australian Government bans use, supply & manufacture of engineered stone
image for illustration Australia has banned the use, supply and manufacture of engineered stone. The ban will start on 1 July 2024 and will apply to engineered stone benchtops, slabs and panels.
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IHBC’s Context 180’s BUMPER issue, Part 1: Explore ‘Where heritage and nature meet’, and see the ‘but’ in being doomed, with life, death, Forests, bats, landscapes and much more
The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context, No. 180, moves beyond Churchill’s take on ‘architecture shaping us’ to argue that ‘we have [now] come to realise that what we build has a fundamental effect on the planet and … Continue reading
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IHBC launches Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot for Local Authority conservation staff (with personal guidance too): Open to applicants from 15/07 to 30/08/2024, so pass the word!
The IHBC will soon launch a new Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot – developed from recent pilots – specifically aimed at helping existing Local Authority heritage, planning and conservation staff progress from Supporter to Affiliate membership, and maybe beyond, with applications closing … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ signpost: DB on ‘Construction industry reactions to the election result’
Designing Buildings (DB) has published some of the reactions to the election result as they are published by construction industry bodies.
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2024 now open: Celebrating ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, enter work from 2022 by 1/09 2024
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2024 joint Heritage Research Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) to celebrate ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, with submissions welcomed … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £275K works this week: Heritage charity seeks design team for iconic heritage project design and delivery, to 21/08
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 national charity for a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (pub’s) doorstep’: Pub landlord threatened over huge mural painted on side of historic inn
Pub landlord Martin Peel, 52, had an 8ft mural of a Hereford bull painted on the side of the 16th century Grade II-listed Bull’s Head pub in Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, reports the Coventry Telegraph.
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Civic Voice responds to Labour’s housing and planning reform announcements
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Civic Voice has responded to the inaugural address of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves MP has outlined Labour’s agenda aimed at boosting the UK economy and addressing critical housing challenges.
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HE issues ‘New Advice on Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency’
image: HE – ‘solar panels hidden with a beech screen’ Historic England (HE) has produced a new Advice Note to provide clarity and support on adapting historic buildings for energy and carbon efficiency.
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Heritage Alliance Briefing on the King’s Speech now out
image: Open Government Licence v3.0 The Heritage Alliance (THA) has issued a briefing on the King’s Speech delivered by King Charles III, which ‘lacked any major surprises, but reiterated the Government’s core priorities on planning reform, growth, improving public services, … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Irish Government publishes Heritage and Climate Adaptation Guidance for Local Authorities
Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage(DHLGH), Ireland has published on 5 July 2024 ‘Heritage and Climate Adaptation Guidance for Local Authorities…’
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Wales Branch Conference: In-person update from heritage at risk projects & the Historic Environment Wales Act, tour and branch AGM, on 20/09
The conference, at Gregynog Hall, Newtown, includes as well as a site visit, updates on Heritage at Risk (HAR) in Wales and what the new Historic Environment Act will mean for conservation in Wales, from Charles Mynors, from £40 (limited … Continue reading
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IHBC launches Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot for Local Authority conservation staff (with personal guidance too): Open to applicants from 15/07 to 30/08/2024, so pass the word!
The IHBC will soon launch a new Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot – developed from recent pilots – specifically aimed at helping existing Local Authority heritage, planning and conservation staff progress from Supporter to Affiliate membership, and maybe beyond, with applications closing … Continue reading
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IHBC celebrates learning, insights, networking & more at 2024’s ‘addictive’ Reading School on ‘Place & Building Care…’: Interim update, thanks & signposts to ‘IHBC CPD, despite purdah’
As IHBC’s 2024 Reading School has (mostly) ended, the IHBC offers more thanks to speakers, volunteers, supporters, participants and Sponsors –Principal Sponsor MFL Insurance Group and Reception Sponsor Velux – with an interim update on #IHBCReading2024 past and future.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: MHCLG on the Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission
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’s special news features The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (City) doorstep’ 2: City approves change of wartime Kingsway Tunnels to cultural attraction
image for illustration: Basher Eyre / Furnival Street, Commons Wikimedia The City of London Corporation (CLoC) has reported that its Planning and Transportation Committee has approved proposals to change the use of the deep-level subterranean wartime shelter tunnels under High Holborn, … Continue reading
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