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- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 21/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 21/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost from the NT: Public First report on ‘Local history, local heritage and local pride, in Coventry and across the UK’ 21/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plans to turn three local villages into town to ‘help protect green belt’ backed by residents 21/11/2025
- Parliamentary Committee: Nature not a ‘blocker’ to housing; needed for ‘resilient towns & neighbourhoods’, and calls for housebuilding target changes and reduced VAT (for retrofitting) 21/11/2025
- Housebuilding around train stations will be given default ‘yes’, including in Green Belt, as: ‘Builders Speechless’ 21/11/2025
- RTPI’s State of the Profession 2025 reports across UK: One in five planners expected to leave the profession within three years, with no clear plan to replace them 21/11/2025
- TCPA Blog: Review of Homes England’s Healthy Homes Standard: Our homes are not islands 21/11/2025
- Public Practice: Recruitment & Skills Report 2025 21/11/2025
- NCT’s National Churches Survey – giving every church a voice 21/11/2025
- New APPG for National Parks and National Landscapes launched 21/11/2025
- Heritage Alliance awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant for Resilience Project 21/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: WMF welcomes Belfast City Council’s decision to purchase Assembly Rooms 21/11/2025
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 18/11/2025
- IHBC warmly welcomes PCO approval to Petition for Charter 18/11/2025
- 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 18/11/2025
- Need a MATE? Act soon & reserve your free online IHBC Accreditation guidance and update session soon (November closed; January still open) 18/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Parliamentary Signpost: Lords completes examination of Planning and Infrastructure Bill 18/11/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Building Design (Tanvir Hasan) on Losing ‘historic craftmanship’ 18/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (development) doorstep’: Ightham Mote’s new visitor & landscape works for the National Trust 18/11/2025
- Historic England Reveals its Heritage at Risk Register 2025 18/11/2025
- St Paul’s Crowned Best Cultural Experience at Toast the City Awards 18/11/2025
- CIC announces approval of new British Standard on Sustainability Competence, with Call for Expertise 18/11/2025
- RICS: Optimism high for AI in construction but skills shortages and integration challenges adoption 18/11/2025
- British Woodworking Federation (BWF) leads coalition across construction to protect future of apprenticeships 18/11/2025
Daily Archives: 21/11/2025
IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit
Image Credits: S O’Reilly IHBC & F Newton IHBC On 18 November the IHBC hosted the 2025 Westminster launch of its new ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’, informed by cross-cutting research into challenges across the full landscape … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, commitments, conservation, environment, expertise, government, heritage, nature, planning, report, skills
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IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post
Claudia Kenyatta CBE and Emma Squire CBE have taken up the role of Co-Chief Executives of Historic England, following the retirement of Duncan Wilson on 31 October 2025.
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost from the NT: Public First report on ‘Local history, local heritage and local pride, in Coventry and across the UK’
image for illustration: Coventry Cathedral by DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The National Trust has issued a new Public First report: ‘There’s a lot of history here’: Local history, local heritage and local pride, in Coventry and … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plans to turn three local villages into town to ‘help protect green belt’ backed by residents
A plan to merge three leafy local villages into a single town has been backed by residents in a bid to save swathes of countryside, reports Kenilworth Nub News.
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Parliamentary Committee: Nature not a ‘blocker’ to housing; needed for ‘resilient towns & neighbourhoods’, and calls for housebuilding target changes and reduced VAT (for retrofitting)
Nature is not a ‘blocker’ to delivering new housing, but rather a necessity for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods, MPs argue in a House of Commons committee report on ‘Environmental sustainability and housing growth’, with responses from government due in … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, construction, economics, environment, expertise, government, housing, nature, planning, retrofit
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Housebuilding around train stations will be given default ‘yes’, including in Green Belt, as: ‘Builders Speechless’
Government says that housebuilding near well-connected train stations will receive a default ‘yes’ in future if they meet certain rules, ensuring more homes are built.
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Tagged building, climate change, commuting, construction, consultation, environment, government, housing, insfrastructure, nature, planning
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RTPI’s State of the Profession 2025 reports across UK: One in five planners expected to leave the profession within three years, with no clear plan to replace them
New findings from a survey of more than 2,500 planners by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) reveal that 20% of respondents in the United Kingdom expect to leave the profession within the next three years – with no clear … Continue reading
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TCPA Blog: Review of Homes England’s Healthy Homes Standard: Our homes are not islands
New Government design requirements and guidance for the Healthy Homes Standard (HHS), to be used by Homes England etc. on under the Affordable Housing Programme, is the subject of a Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) blog.
Public Practice: Recruitment & Skills Report 2025
Public practice: This is our fourth annual survey and the first time we are including results from across the UK.
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NCT’s National Churches Survey – giving every church a voice
The National Churches Trust ‘National Churches Survey: giving every church a voice’ report shows both the scale of what is at stake and the hope that continues to shine through.
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New APPG for National Parks and National Landscapes launched
On Tuesday 21st October Barry Gardiner was nominated as Chair of the APPG for National Parks and National Landscapes, a new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) championing access to and protection of National Parks and National Landscapes, which cover 25% … Continue reading
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Heritage Alliance awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant for Resilience Project
The Heritage Alliance has secured a significant grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to drive its aim of making the Heritage Sector stronger and more resilient.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: WMF welcomes Belfast City Council’s decision to purchase Assembly Rooms
image for illustration: #IHBCBelfast2018 World Monuments Fund (WMF) welcomes Belfast City Council’s decision to purchase the Assembly Rooms, one of the city’s oldest and most significant civic landmarks.
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