Daily Archives: 14/10/2025

Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop

Posted on 14/10/2025 by IHBC

IHBC’s members’ journal Context from June 2025 – No. 184 – focussed on ‘Leaders of conservation thought’, and featured in our Vox Pop Mike Brown, Immediate Past President (IPP) of the IHBC.

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IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online

Posted on 14/10/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC has posted online its updated Communications and Outreach Strategy, for 2025-28, with a foreword by IHBC Chair David McDonald, which also serves as the current Business Plan for the IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Committee, chaired by Dave Chetwyn, … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on 14/10/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC is delighted to announce the launch of the Home Page of the 2026 Annual School, to take place in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ and across up to 20 hours CPD.

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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England

Posted on 14/10/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Coventry swimming baths by E Gammie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Historic England will not stand in the way of Coventry’s Grade II listed Olympic-sized swimming pool building being demolished, reports BBC News.

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Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme

Posted on 14/10/2025 by IHBC

Government has launched its response to the Report of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee of the House of Commons, with a £13.2bn programme.

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HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector

Posted on 14/10/2025 by IHBC

The Historic Houses (HH) report, ‘Historic houses: the heart of Scotland’s rural tourism’ has found that legislative uncertainty, complex regulation and mounting fiscal pressures are threatening the future of rural tourism businesses in Scotland.

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People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11

Posted on 14/10/2025 by IHBC

Funding available to support regional museums and galleries to ensure collections are more accessible to the public, open to applications to 14 November.

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THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October

Posted on 14/10/2025 by IHBC

The Heritage Alliance (THA) is planning to publish a report exploring how the heritage sector is helping to create vibrant, creative, thriving, and sustainable places for people to live, work, and enjoy, to feed into their upcoming Heritage Debate 2025.

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BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025)

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‘Wellbeing in Buildings’, a Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) Topic Guide by Sorcha Redmond, has been issued.

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‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos

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Political think tank DEMOS has published ‘A room with a view: remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog by Lucy Bush, Director of Research and Participation.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act

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The Town of Oakville is investigating after a designated heritage home was demolished despite having the protection of the Ontario Heritage Act.

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