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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
Daily Archives: 11/03/2025
IHBC’s Context 182 (Part 2), with some very special ‘Special features’, as Alec Clifton-Taylor and listing are re-visited
The new issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context is now out– No. 182 – with special features looking at heritage from the past and for the future, on Listing and following the inimitable Alec!
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IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: IHBC supports Gardens Trust Assembly, Cowcross St, 03/04, on ‘… the UK Planning Systems’, with 15% off for IHBC members
The IHBC is delighted to support the Gardens Trust Assembly on ‘Historic Parks and Gardens in the UK Planning Systems’, in person at Cowcross Street, London on 3 April, with a special 15% reduction for members (see dedicated code below).
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REMINDER: Join IHBC SW from everywhere (or in person at Redruth), 13 March pilot livestream & more, (from £20 online) with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Placemaking and Context’ – an ‘IHBC CPD Branch Partnership’ event for our Annual School #IHBCShrewsbury2025
Join the IHBC’s South West (SW) Branch Partnership event for special and rare CPD on design and placemaking for historic areas, with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Heritage and Design’ and ‘Placemaking in Historic Areas’, (In-Person or Online, 13/03; supported by IHBC’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Professional signpost: Second Reading of the ‘Permitted Development Rights (Extension) Bill [HL]’ (debated on Friday 7 February 2025): ‘… we get some of our flood prevention done as a result of allowing people to extend’
You can review heritage-related discussions, informed by Parliament or otherwise, in the Second Reading of the Permitted Development Rights (Extension) Bill [HL] (debated on Friday 7 February 2025, in the House of Lords, as moved by Lord Lucas (Con).
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s double-up – Designing Buildings on Conservation Wiki + Marsh Awards to 31/03
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 Designing Buildings (DB) on IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – ‘Everything you … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (church/charity) doorstep’: Cathedral launches urgent fundraising push after becoming charity
image for illustration: Peterborough Cathedral website 900-year-old Peterborough Cathedral in Cambridgeshire has launched an urgent fundraising campaign after facing financial struggles in its first year as a registered charity, reports Civil Society.
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Major investment by government to boost growth and cement Britain’s place as cultural powerhouse
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Over £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund for arts venues, museums, libraries and the heritage sector in major boost for growth.
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Historic Houses: Rebate in UK’s Heritage Sector could unlock £7M benefit
image for illustration: Jonathan Taylor Historic Houses’ submission to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into Protecting Built Heritage included its new report on VAT and listed buildings.
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The Scottish Civic Trust welcomes new Chair Angela Bonney
The Scottish Civic Trust, the national voice for local civic and heritage groups, has appointed Angela Bonney as Chair as of the 5th of December 2024.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: UK redoubles Horizon push as Kyle forges deeper R&I links with EU
UK Science and Tech Secretary announces renewed push to turbo-charge UK-EU science and technology links, to tackle shared global challenges.
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