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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: 08/07/2025
Looking back to Context 183 (Part 1): IHBC’s journal examines ‘Wellbeing and Heritage’, from work and economics to emotions and ageing
Our Spring issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context – No. 183 examines ‘Wellbeing and Heritage’, highlighting how historic buildings and places trigger rich evocations, but that’s only part of a complex story being told here.
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, economics, environment, expertise, government, heritage, nature, planning, skills, wellbeing
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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Highland Council focussed on Planning Enforcement with new Charter
Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee has agreed to adopt the 2025 Planning Enforcement Charter that captures all planning enforcement policy and procedures, explaining how enforcement works, the Council’s roles and responsibilities and the service standard that have been set.
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IHBC’s Professional Signpost: Last chances for ECHOES Consultation, open to mid-July: Help ‘…map cultural heritage communities’ needs & expectations’
The ECHOES Consultation aims to map diverse cultural heritage communities and understand their needs and expectations for the Cultural Heritage Cloud. With their contribution, we will be able to set up the Cultural Heritage Cloud with and for the communities.
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IHBC’s Research Signpost: Input sought from ‘anyone who does, supports or uses’ heritage science
The AHRC has opened a consultation to evaluate the Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) programme, and seeks input ‘from ‘anyone who does, supports or uses this work’.
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Tagged arts, conservation, expertise, heritage, humanities, questionnaire, research, science, skills, technology
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: South Downs NP on ‘… investing in built heritage skills’
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 the South Downs National Park (NP) on investing in built … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep: Council to sell Mackintosh building for use as Scottish Catholic archives
image for illustration: Martyrs’ School by Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The former Martyrs’ School building in Glasgow’s Townhead – designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh – is to be sold by Glasgow City Council to the Bishops’ Conference … Continue reading
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National Trust calls for investment in ‘national renewal’ as research shows emotional connection ‘between Brits and their local heritage’
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald Heritage should play a central part of the Government’s plans to promote national renewal, following new research that shows how highly the British public value their local history, reports The National Trust.
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Welsh Government policy and strategy ‘Priorities for culture’
The Welsh Government has published its policy and strategy ‘Priorities for culture’, indicating it’s priorities for arts, museums, libraries, archives and the historic environment sectors.
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Government announces 25 ‘trailblazer neighbourhoods’ to receive long-term investment
The government has announced 25 trailblazer neighbourhoods that will receive up to £20 million over the next decade?as part of a new fund announced at the Spending Review.
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Tagged funding, investment, neighbourhoods, regeneration, urban
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Design Council launches Skills for Planet Blueprint
image for illustration: The Earth seen from Apollo 17 by Harrison Schmitt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Design Council has launched its ‘Skills for Planet Blueprint: The critical green skills that all designers need’.
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Over £1Mn for towns and cities to clean up chewing gum stains
52 councils across the UK will receive funding to remove chewing gum stains and clean up our streets.
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Tagged cleaning, environment, funding, litter, local government, streets
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Ian Brant appointed Chair of the Construction Industry Council
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has inaugurated Ian Brant as Chair at its Council Meeting, to succeed Dr Wei Yang OBE in this role for a two-year term of office starting with immediate effect.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Cities around the world are sinking at ‘worrying speed’
image for illustration: London by © User:Colin and Kim Hansen / Wikimedia Commons Dozens of coastal regions that are sinking at a worrying speed, according to a study by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
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Tagged building, climate change, coasts, environment, flooding, government, nature, planning, waterways
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