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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: 26/07/2024
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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