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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: 17/12/2024
IHBC welcomes Free 2 Day Traditional Building Retrofit Course for Wales
Fully funded training in the retrofit of traditional and historic buildings is now available in Wales, achieving the Level 3 award qualification, delivered by the Environment Study Centre and presented by IHBC Technical Panel Chair Professor John Edwards.
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Don’t forget: IHBC’s HESPR-linked service promotion is now even more accessible to clients when using our map-based search
IHBC members, colleagues and client bodies can now find the office locations of HESPR members – IHBC’s Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition (HESPR) scheme – using our new map-based facility. images : HESPR logo and Google Maps
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IHBC’s ‘Research & Finance’ Signposts: British Geological Survey research for HES shows Scotland can re-establish its stone industry
image for illustration: Fiona Newton British Geological Survey research, commissioned by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), reveals an opportunity to re-establish the Scottish building stone market in order to maintain the country’s historic buildings.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC features Building on the ‘lessons… from M&S decision’
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 features Building on the ‘What lessons can be learnt from the … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (public) doorstep’: Campaign to save Centenary Building as site set to be demolished
image for illustration: Centenary Building, Salford by Skip88, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons An appeal has been launched to save the award winning Centenary building after it was announced that it would be demolished, reports Salford Now
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Lisa Nandy announces plans for ‘place-based philanthropy strategy’
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Culture secretary Lisa Nandy has referenced plans for a ‘place-based philanthropy strategy’ during a meeting of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
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Tagged conmmunity, environment, government, placemaking, planning
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HE: Training Needs Analysis
HE is designing our training programme for the next 2 years and wants your help to refresh their understanding of training priorities.
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Major overhaul of England’s planning committees ‘to get Britain building’
image for illustration Open Government Licence v3.0 Planning decisions in England are set to be fast-tracked in a sweeping overhaul of local planning committees, as part of new measures to tackle the housing crisis, according to government.
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AHF Publishes its Annual Review for 2023-24
The Architectural heritage Fund (AHF) has issued its Annual Review 2023-24.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Looking back at Tropical Modernism, from CHF
image for illustration: Old building of Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone by Jared & Melanie & Huxley Ponchot, CC BY 2.0 Dr Christopher Turner, curator of ‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence’, reports on the exhibition for the Commonwealth Heritage Forum … Continue reading
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