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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: 24/09/2024
IHBC welcomes Ian Baxter’s ‘Heritage Careers Guide 2024-2025’, from BEFS and THA
The IHBC has welcomed the new ‘Heritage Careers Guide 2024-2025’, compiled by Professor Ian Baxter (Heriot-Watt University) in collaboration with Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) and The Heritage Alliance (THA), which provides a comprehensive resource for heritage sector careers.
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Take ‘A Walk on the Wild Side’ with IHBC London’s essential interdisciplinary CPD on managing buildings & nature for sustainability: Landscapes, biodiversity, place & more, in London, 01/09, from only £100 (NO VAT, inc. lunch etc)
The IHBC’s London Branch 2024 conference on 1 October explores how conservation of the natural and historic environments can be managed to make better places in its next annual Conference, at the Grade I Royal College of Physicians, from only … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, government, heritage, nature, planning, skills
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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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IHBC welcomes 25% reduction for members at the 2024 RICS ‘Global Building Conservation Conference, online, 25/09
The IHBC is delighted to announce the special offer to members of a 25% reduction at the 2024 RICS ‘Global Building Conservation Conference’, online on Wednesday 25 September, with up to 7 Hours Formal CPD.
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Tagged building, climate change, environment, global, government, planning, skills
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IHBC’s ‘Management’ signpost: New Homes Accelerator programme to unblock thousands of new homes
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 A new expert group will speed up delivery of stalled housing sites, supporting plans to boost economic growth and deliver 1.5 million homes, with resources available and a ‘call for evidence’ for details … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Parliament asks what is the ‘Grey Belt’
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 from a House of Lords Committee’s inquiry into … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Modern Aberystwyth University campus buildings listed, II*/II
image for illustration: Ian Capper / Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wikimedia Commons Three 1960s and 1970s buildings on the campus of Aberystwyth University designed by Dale Owen – the Bell Tower and The Hugh Owen Building have been listed at Grade II, with the … Continue reading
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Climate Change Bill published by Scottish Government
image for illustration Scottish Government has published draft legislation to create a carbon budget approach to setting climate targets.
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Majority of people value countryside access, CPRE/YouGov polling reveals
image for illustration: Peter Badcock The vast majority of people in Great Britain believe it’s important to have access to the countryside close to where they live, according to new polling from CPRE, the countryside charity and YouGov.
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HES ‘Grants Programme Baseline Report 2023-24’ published: How are we spending our money?
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has published its Grants Programme Baseline Report for 2023-24 indicating how grant aid money is being spent.
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Tagged conservation, funding, heritage, Scotland
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Crystal Palace Subway, for 160th anniversary
image for illustration: Crystal Palace Subway by Doyle of London, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The remarkable Grade II* listed Crystal Palace Subway in South London begins a new era following major restoration, in time for its 160th anniversary in 2025.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Colorado home built into 200 million-year-old red rocks hits market, brings ‘the outdoors in’
image for illustration A unique 2-bed, 2-bath ‘resort like’ home in Colorado, built into 200 million-year-old red rocks hits market, brings ‘the outdoors in’!
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