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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
Monthly Archives: May 2025
IHBC congratulates Conservation Wiki partner Designing Buildings as it reaches 20,000 articles
image DB: 2000 Bing AI Designing Buildings (DB) – host and partner to the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – has reached a major milestone, with 20,000 articles published.
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Tagged expertise, publishing, skills, wiki
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HE’s Chief Executive Duncan Wilson offers online welcome & Q&A at IHBC’s 2025 Day School, 13/06: #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – Schools… ‘one of the pre-eminent regular events in… heritage
The IHBC is delighted to announce that Duncan Wilson CBE, Chief Executive at Historic England, will offer an online welcome and take questions at the IHBC’s Shrewsbury Day School on 13 June – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – opening a unique day of … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, cpd, discussion, environment, event, expertise, government, heritage, investigation, nature, networking, planning, skills
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IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories)
The IHBC is has agreed a 10% discount for all members on West Dean’s celebrated and specialist Conservation courses (see terms, conditions and code below).
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IHBC REMINDER– DEADLINE EXTENDED for our Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work Survey: Open to 22 May
The IHBC is delighted to thank all for your strong response to our Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work survey, helping us understand the current state of wellbeing among those working and volunteering in the heritage sector, and to ensure we … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, expertise, heritage, questionnaire, skills, staff, volunteering, wellbeing, work
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IHBC ‘Philosophy’ signpost from Designing Buildings: AI is killing the goose that laid the golden egg
image DB: entitled ‘Image created by chatgpt in response to the prompt: “create an image representing the threat of AI to publishers of copyrighted content”.’ Designing Buildings (DB) – host and partner to the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – has published … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, conservation, construction, copyright, creativity, images, knowledge, publishing
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s weekly works: Church body seeks architect for works and bids, to 23/05
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 by a church body for an … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, government, heritage, nature, planning, skills, tenders
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: IHBC’s The Cockburn Association’s 150th Annual General Meeting
The Cockburn Association has issued invites to the Association’s 150th AGM, and celebrate the official start of our 150th anniversary!
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Department for Communities: Condition of NI’s Listed buildings declines by almost 25% in twenty years
image for illustration: IHBC The Department for Communities has published research on the condition of listed buildings, following ministerial commitment, using a ‘statistically reliable sample’ to underpin the conclusion that their ‘Condition is… getting worse and this appears to be … Continue reading
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Government on PBIS: Reforms to get Britain building will boost economy by billions
New analysis shows economy could be boosted by up to £7.5 billion over the next decade thanks to the pro-growth Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PBIS).
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Tagged building, economics, environment, government, growth, infrastructure, planning, transport
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The Wildlife Trusts: Government amendment to Planning Bill threatens nature and infrastructure delivery… removing statutory consultees from NSIPs pre-app process
image for illustration: Peter Badcock A Government amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill removes all statutory consultees from the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) pre-application process, which The Wildlife Trusts describe as ‘bad news for nature recovery, communities and … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, environment, expertise, government, heritage, infrastructure, planning, rural, wildlife
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HSDS User Needs Survey (Year 1) open to 31 May
If you create or use Heritage Science data as an employee, volunteer or student your feedback (before 31 May) can help shape a new Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS) with capacity to advance understanding, preservation, and management of UK heritage, … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Arran announced as 10th UNESCO Global Geopark in UK
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Arran, located off the southwest coast of Scotland, has been formally announced as the UK’s 10th UNESCO Global Geopark, as the ratification took place at the conclusion of the 221st session of the UNESCO Executive … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, geopark, government, heritage, nature
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IHBC welcomes Hirst Conservation to HESPR – IHBC’s register of quality-assured conservation and heritage practices
Hirst Conservation is the latest company to be accepted on to the IHBC conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ listing, of heritage businesses to benefit from IHBC’s quality assurance.
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, heritage, planning, skills
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IHBC’s President keynote on ‘Historic & Heritage Places and Assets’, an essential heritage perspective, ‘… a huge focus at UKREiiF 2025’, Leeds, 20 May
IHBC’s President Rebecca Thompson, Director of Property for St Paul’s Cathedral, will speak on ‘Historic and Heritage Places and Assets’ on 20 May at the Leeds UKREiiF 2025’, a forum dedicated to unlocking investment and driving regeneration and development across … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Annual School 2025 pre-conference (and free!) webinars: Accessible & engaging learning for all (and special CPD for Conservation Professionals), with Dr Andy Wigley on ‘Shrewsbury’s Built Heritage..’, 15/5
Following on from the launch of the 2025 Annual School and the linked pre-conference CPD in Redruth on 13 March, the IHBC is delighted to announce a series of online lunchtime webinars across a variety of topics that relate to … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, cpd, environment, event, expertise, heritage, planning, skills
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IHBC REMINDER– DEADLINE EXTENDED for our Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work Survey: Open to 22 May
The IHBC is delighted to thank all for your strong response to our Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work survey, helping us understand the current state of wellbeing among those working and volunteering in the heritage sector, and to ensure we … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Management signpost: ‘An independent review of Defra’s regulatory landscape…’
Government UK has issued a new report, ‘An independent review of Defra’s regulatory landscape…’.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Defra, via LinkedIn, seeks 30 new Board Members for England’s NPAs etc, to 19/05
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 Defra social media call for 30 new Board Members for … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Irish) doorstep’: Thatch Repair Grant Scheme Opens in Donegal (with a little on ‘Fire Risk’)
Donegal County Council’s award-winning Thatch Repair Grant Scheme has opened for applications.
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Government: Experimental AI could help councils meet housing targets by digitising records to make planning data accessible
Government UK reports that a new AI tool aims to modernise council planning by replacing outdated paper systems with high-quality digital data, enabling faster, smarter decisions to support the government’s goal of building 1.5 million homes.
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Local heritage to be protected with £20Mn funding
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald Government UK has launched £20Mn of support funds to boost people’s access to local heritage, to increase opportunities for all.
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Wales Consultation: A New Approach to Volunteering in Wales: Closing 30/05
The Welsh Government has issued a consultation survey seeking views from charities on volunteering, to 30 May.
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UK Government: Record £13.9Bn of R&D funding unveiled to boost innovation, jobs and growth
A record £13.9 billion funding outlined to support transformational R&D in areas like life sciences, green energy, engineering and beyond has been reported by Government UK.
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Defra seeks 30 Board Members of National Park Authorities and National Landscape Conservation Boards: to 19/05
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is looking for 30 Board Members of National Park Authorities and National Landscape Conservation Boards: to 19/05.
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Hundreds of quangos to be examined for potential closure as Government takes back control
Every quango across government will be reviewed, with a view to close, merge or bring functions back into departments if its continued existence cannot be justified.
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