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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
Monthly Archives: November 2024
IHBC’s Finance & Economics Signpost: British Land on ‘Brownfield’ – how to deliver more growth, homes & jobs, with communities’
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 British Land’s report on ‘Brownfield urban regeneration: how to deliver more growth, homes and jobs with the support of communities’ has been published.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Designing Buildings site features IHBC NewsBlogs etc to c.20K development sector users, from Scotland’s Standards to education from Venice
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’, with our update this week being Designing Buildings’ promotion of IHBC NewsBlogs etc posts … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (demolition) doorstep’: ‘Existential threat’ of ‘Embodied Carbon Briefing’ to demolition
‘Embodied Carbon Briefing Document’ highlights an ‘existential threat to the demolition sector’ – argues DemolitionNews: ‘a lot like COVID-19 just because no-one is talking about it doesn’t mean the problem has gone away!’
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National Churches Trust: The house of good & easing pressures on the NHS
A new National Churches Trust research report – The house of good: health: Churches are good for our health – shows that the UK’s churches take an immense amount of pressure off the NHS.
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Dorset dairy farm Wraxall Yard wins 2024 Stephen Lawrence Prize
image for illustration: Wraxall: towards the village by Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced Wraxall Yard by Clementine Blakemore Architects as the winner of the 2024 Stephen Lawrence Prize.
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Great Yarmouth winter gardens restoration wins AJ retrofit award
image for illustration: Evelyn Simak / The Winter Gardens (detail), Commons Wikimedia The restoration of the Grade II* Winter Gardens in Great Yarmouth, being led by BFF Architects, has won an AJ Retrofit Award. It was the winner of the ‘Future Reuse’ … Continue reading
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Ombudsman shares 100+ maladministration cases on damp & mould ahead of Awaab’s Law
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Ombudsman shares over 100 severe maladministration cases on damp and mould ahead of Awaab’s Law to prevent future failings.
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UVAC warns of threat to public services posed by reform of government’s apprenticeship levy
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 A new report by the University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC) has warned that drastic reform or the abolishment of the government’s Apprenticeship Levy scheme will have a hugely detrimental impact on public services.
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James Grierson appointed Chair of the Victorian Society
image for illustration: The Victorian Society The Victorian Society announces appointment of James Grierson as Chair of the Society in succession to Professor Hilary Grainger OBE.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (global) doorstep’: Winnipeg history among ruins of Air Canada Window Park demolition
image for illustration: Corner of Portage Avenue and Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba by Photogelatine Engraving Co: Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Winnipeg history buffs and heritage organizations are shocked and angered to find pieces of the city’s past left … Continue reading
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Serious about your career? Sign up to IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service & ‘Stay Ahead’, with opportunities across disciplines, specialisms & levels, from estates to fabric, ecclesiastical to public, and Net Zero to Design Review, with much more too!
To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique … Continue reading
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IHBC@ICOMOS-CIF’s anniversary Symposium with RIBA, ‘Peace and War: Educating for Conservation or for Reconstruction?, blended from Venice, 4-6/11
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Among those exploring the ICOMOS-CIF 2024 Symposium on 4-6 November, on ‘… Educating for Conservation…’, led by Cristina González-Longo, ICOMOS CIF President, and celebrating its 40th anniversary with the RIBA, will be IHBC Director Séan … Continue reading
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Don’t forget IHBC’s free ‘Publications by Members’ webpage posting: Just send us the details, for all member categories
The IHBC is delighted to remind members of the IHBC who have published books still in print that they can promote these for free on our ‘Members Publications’ web page: Just send the details to Peter Badcock at it@ihbc.org.uk.
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IHBC’s ‘History’ Spotlight: HE’s brief introduction to the history of England’s Village Greens
image for illustration Historic England (HE) has offered an introduction to the history of England’s Village Greens.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £5.4M+ of weekly works: BC seeks Landscape consultants for Lottery-led project, to 19/11 and valued £430K
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 Bourgh Council for Landscape … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (maritime) doorstep’: UK’s maritime heritage celebrated with new Heritage Harbours
Gloucester and Ramsgate officially became Heritage Harbours on Saturday 7 September 2024, joining twelve other locations across the UK already recognised for their contribution to saving our maritime heritage.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep’: Council to sell off Grade-II listed power station to plug £27million budget gap
image for illustration A Grade-II listed power station and several car parks have been included among a list of assets a council intends to sell off to plug a £27million budget gap.
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Russ MacMillan new CE of Parliamentary Delivery Authority on Westminster Restoration and Renewal Programme
image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament Russ MacMillan will lead the team of architects, engineers, project managers and specialist contractors who will help shape the future direction of the restoration work for the … Continue reading
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Planning Inspectorate reviews & reflections: … stakeholder views help to shape planning improvements…
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Feedback from stakeholders is helping to shape future improvements for the Planning Inspectorate and for the wider planning system.
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Europa Nostra Awards 2025: Submit your application by 20 November 2024
European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2025 is calling for submissions by 20 November 2024, for ‘exceptional achievements’ in aspects of cultural heritage care.
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England’s Civic Voice highlights critical role of Local Plans in response to House of Lords Grey Belt Inquiry
Civic Voice has stressed the critical role of Local Plans in response to House of Lords ‘Grey Belt’ Inquiry.
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RIBA Stirling Prize winner 2024: The Elizabeth Line
Transport for London, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Elizabeth Line – London’s new transport network – designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis has been named as the winner of the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize.
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