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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: 01/10/2024
IHBC’s new ‘IHBC Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’: National Office updates for Committee Officers & more
The IHBC has circulated a new ‘IHBC Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’, to update committees on strategic developments, so if you are keen to find out more on any points below, just check in with your Branch Officers.
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, cpd, environment, expertise, heritage, jobs, learning, nature, planning, research, skills
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IHBC North Branch on ‘Darlington – Hopetown: £35m Heritage Led Regeneration of Historic Railway Buildings’, 11 October 2024, from £35
IHBC North Branch has announced its Autumn full-day CPD event at Darlington’s Hopetown, part of the £35m funded linear Heritage Action Zone project (HAZ), on 11 October 2024, from only £35 for members.
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, cpd, environment, expertise, heritage, learning, planning, skills
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IHBC seeks consultant ‘Support Officer’ service with good IT, comms & personal skills: Help boost capacity & value to Branches, members, partners & more, from £120-£160/day, 2-3 days/week, closes 18/10
If you would like to get involved at the hub of the IHBC’s UK-wide built and historic environment conservation practice network, have strong IT, comms & personal skills, and seek flexible home-working with huge potential for travel and learning, let … Continue reading
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IHBC HESPR’s own ‘Special Interest ‘News from the Sector’’ update
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’, which includes ‘News from the sector’, a dedicated HESPR members’ news service supplement to … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Railway) doorstep’: Network Rail unveils new ‘Harry’s Wall’ at site of iconic Holmes Chapel landmark
image for illustration: Twemlow Viaduct by Dave.Dunford – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Harry Styles fans are being encouraged to sign a new, purpose-built wall as an alternative to the Grade II listed Twemlow viaduct that has become a shrine … Continue reading
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Met Office launches beta ‘Local Authority Climate Service’
image for illustration The Met Office has launched a beta version of its Local Authority Climate Service, presenting climate data at local authority boundaries along with supporting tools and guidance.
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Mayor of London and Government announce bold plans to transform Oxford Street
image for illustration: by Christine Matthews / Oxford Circus, London W1 Commons Wikimedia The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and government announce bold plans to transform Oxford Street including turning the road into a traffic-free pedestrianised avenue, creating a beautiful public … Continue reading
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£1Mn donation by playwright Ken Ludwig supports conservation efforts at historic home of Shakespeare’s daughter
image for illustration: Hall’s Croft by Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The charity that cares for the world’s greatest Shakespeare heritage sites in Stratford-upon-Avon has announced it has received a substantial donation by … Continue reading
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Unusual Bridge Across the Basingstoke Canal Listed
image for illustration: Inglis Pyramid Bridge on Basingstoke Canal by pablo haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons An unassuming metal bridge which crosses the Basingstoke Canal near Aldershot in Hampshire is now listed at Grade II thanks to its … Continue reading
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HES Grants Funding Report 2023-24 now out
Historic Environment Scotland’s (HES) ‘Grants Funding Report 2023-24’ provides detailed information on how grant funding has supported communities and historic places all over Scotland.
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RICS pledges initial £90,000 to student bursary programme
image for illustration The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is pledging £90,000 to the Chartered Surveyors Student Bursary Programme.
Scotland’s amenity lead, AHSS, advocates for heritage protection in response to Scottish Government’s new PDRs
The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland (AHSS) has recently expressed its concerns to the Scottish Government regarding the implementation of Phase 3 of Permitted Development Rights (PDR) in Conservation Areas.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: The St. Anne’s Church fire in Toronto – a cautionary tale to preserve heritage
image for illustration Jack Rozdilsky of York University, Canada, looks to lessons following the St. Anne’s Church fire in Toronto, from moving activities to a GoFundMe campaign to support rebuilding, reports the Canadian Architect.
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