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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: 16/08/2024
IHBC adds new ‘Climate Change Adaptation’ category to HESPR practice areas: ‘… responding to climate change issues…’
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for commercial heritage services – now has the new practice area of ‘Climate Change Adaptation’, helping promote accredited members’ specialist skills and roles linked … Continue reading
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IHBC 2024 Student Award UPDATE – New closing date, 30 September: Seeks relevant coursework ‘written, designed or made’… to win £500 & free #IHBCShrewsbury2025 School place
The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award closes on 31 September this year, so if you have submitted relevant coursework on a UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, whether ‘written, designed or made’ – over the two years … Continue reading
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STILL TIME – IHBC Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot for Local Authority conservation staff (with personal guidance too) ends soon: Open to applicants from 15/07 to 30/08/2024, so pass the word!
The IHBC has launched 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 30 … Continue reading
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REMINDER: IHBC’s Context 180’s BUMPER issue, Part 3: Regular updates from IHBC officers and networks
The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context, No. 180, alongside themed features on heritage and nature includes a wide range of regular articles, with the spotlight in this NewsBlog on ‘Notes ‘from our Chair, on White’s … History … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £247K works this week: Museum body seeks feasibility study, to £50K and 30/08
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 Museum body seeking a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Welsh) doorstep’: Gavin & Stacey mural in Welsh village, Dinas Powys
image for illustration: Trinity Street Barry Island by Christopher Ware, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons- (This view was used on BBC3’s ‘Gavin and Stacey’ series as a ‘scene-setter’) An incredible Gavin & Stacey mural has appeared on the side … Continue reading
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New Housing Minister writes to RTPI President supporting profession, ‘… in particular those… in local authorities across England’
image: Matthew Pennycook – Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence New Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has written to Lindsey Richards, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute to convey a clear message on behalf of government to professional planners – … Continue reading
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National Heritage Science Forum ‘Consultation on Strategic Framework for Heritage Science in the UK’, online session 21 August
The National Heritage Science Forum (NHSF) seeks input to the next ‘Strategic Framework for Heritage Science in the UK’, covering 2024-2027, with webinar on 21 August open to all.
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Significant investment in theatre buildings needed for sector to survive and thrive, new survey reveals
image for illustration – RSC Stratford upon Avon The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) & UK Theatre have published the results of a survey demonstrating the urgent need for sustainable and systematic investment in theatre buildings.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Ontario gives cities more time to protect heritage buildings, but there’s a catch
image for illustration: Ottowa Skyline by Óðinn – This image was created with Hugin., CC BY-SA 2.5 ca A new bill has extended the deadline for Canada’s Ontario municipalities to officially designate buildings by two years, but closing a loophole … Continue reading
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