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- Looking back at IHBC’s Context 183 (Part 2): IHBC’s members’ journal with Alexandra Fairclough’s ‘Law and Policy update’, UK-wide, plus Planning Appeals (with a shark) 15/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost update to RICHeS Survey: For Heritage Science community and networks, input sought to 1 August 15/07/2025
- LAST CHANCE TO APPLY: 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 15/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: DB on ‘Architects, architecture, buildings, construction and inspiration in film’ 15/07/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Arch Daily’s ‘Tribute to Léon Krier’ 15/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Future of Southend’s Kursaal discussed at Parliament meeting 15/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Built heritage trusts in Glasgow receive new funding from council 15/07/2025
- CoE: Major refurbishment of Lambeth Palace completed 15/07/2025
- Kicking restoration of Parliament down the road risks disaster, authorities told 15/07/2025
- University of Cambridge on ‘The Business Case for Integrated Retrofit: How banks, insurers, and the government can support healthy, efficient, and resilient homes’ 15/07/2025
- CIOB responds to committee report criticising UK retrofit schemes 15/07/2025
- Investing in community regeneration in Scotland – Projects to unlock economic growth and tackle poverty 15/07/2025
- RIBA Library and Collections services update June 2025 15/07/2025
- Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August: IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments 11/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost update to RICHeS Survey: For Heritage Science community and networks, input sought to 1 August 11/07/2025
- IHBC’s Professional Signpost: Last chances for ECHOES Consultation, open to mid-July: Help ‘…map cultural heritage communities’ needs & expectations’ 11/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: House of Commons Committee Report on ‘Condition of Government Property’ 11/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: British Academy on ‘Value of social and cultural infrastructure ‘risks being neglected in decision-making’ without new measurement framework’ 11/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £8.4M+ of weekly works: Authority asset valuations, to 04/08 & £173K+ 11/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep: ‘It survived two World Wars…’ – Heartbreak as Manchester’s Hotspur Press left a smouldering ruin 11/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep: Hull CC Cabinet approves new plan to invest in Hull’s infrastructure 11/07/2025
- European Commission and Europa Nostra announce the winners of Europe’s top heritage awards 2025 11/07/2025
- Last chance: The National Churches Trust Survey – ‘Giving every church a voice’, to 13 July 11/07/2025
- At-risk globally important places championed by new parliamentary group 11/07/2025
- HE Guidance Open for Consultation ‘Assessing Opportunity and Sensitivity using Historic Landscape Characterisation’, to 01/08 11/07/2025
Daily Archives: 07/07/2024
Interested in serving as a co-opted IHBC trustee? With our new Board in place, we’re seeking a trustee with early/mid-career, diversity and/or local authority profiles
With our new 2024 IHBC Board in place, and our plans to enhance representation, we’re seeking a new co-opted trustee to extend our top-level ties across any or all agreed priority areas: early/mid-career; diversity and/or local authority roles.
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IHBC to launch 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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‘Politics is not an exact science’… so what does the political future hold for heritage? Free CPD open to all IHBC member categories, online on Thursday 11July, from 4.00 pm
With the General Election upon us now we look past it and into the future with Lizzie Glithero-West, Chief Executive of The Heritage Alliance, who will provide insight into the thinking of the new government.
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Tagged charter, cpd, government, politics
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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ spotlight: ‘Work as a building conservation officer in an English LPA? This HE initiative could be for you… ’
image for illustration Historic England (HE) will soon launch a new online community of practice aimed at local authority heritage staff, and there is an opportunity in July for any Conservation Officer(s) – or equivalent – working in a local … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, conservation, localgovernment, planning
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IHBC to be represented at Housing Cymru conference and exhibition 11 July 2024 – Charities etc. FREE!
IHBC Technical Panel Chair Professor John Edwards will share the stage with Jill Fairweather of Cadw and natural insulation product manufacturers to talk about the need for a more informed approach towards retrofit and insulation of traditional building.
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Tagged housing, insulation, retrofit, wales
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IHBC Signpost: Government guidance on Registered Building Inspectors (England and Wales)
image for illustration Find out the classes of building inspectors, the competencies needed and how to register as a building inspector in England and Wales.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £1.5M works this week: Diocese seeks expert guidance on heritage values in planning context, closing 24/07
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 an English Diocese for expert … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (council) doorstep’: Landlord and company fined for planning violations
A Bedford landlord has been found guilty of multiple planning enforcement violations reports Bedford Borough Council.
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BSI seeks Committee Chair for B/209 ‘General design and construction standards’
British Standards Institution (BSI) is looking for a new committee chair for B/209 ‘General design and construction standards’.
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HE opens national blue plaque scheme for public now to make a nomination: to 28/07
image: HE Historic England (HE) has announced that the national blue plaque scheme is now open for public nominations, with a 2024 deadline of Sunday 28 July.
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Vic Soc says: Happy Birthday, George Edmund Street! Gala Dinner for members & guests starts fundraising in bicentenary year
Guests and Victorian Society (Vic Soc) staff joined the Revd Lis Goddard and the team of St James the Less to mark G E Street’s bicentenary with a gala fundraising dinner to ‘restore Street’s first commission in London’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin theatre reopens after five-year restoration
image for illustration: Hillside Theatre by Marykeiran, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The Hillside Theatre by Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin has reopened following an extensive five-year restoration that addressed ‘significant structural and functional challenges’.
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