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- IHBC issues formal notice to all IHBC Members for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 13/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes Vice President Torsten Haak as Guest Judge for 2025 Student Award: Selecting next ‘Gus Astley’ winner, to receive £500 + Newcastle School place, 18-20 June 2026 13/12/2025
- IHBC Toolbox’s latest Guidance Note update now out: ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC Signpost: DB the Construction Wiki Temporary Structures 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt 13/12/2025
- Government launches call for submissions to UK’s first national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – ‘living Heritage – open to 27/03 13/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse: Spotlight on Heritage Crime 13/12/2025
- UK State of the Trades: a Report on the current UK Trade Landscape 13/12/2025
- RIBA Business Benchmarking Report 2025 issued 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep 2: ‘Europa?Nostra on new Culture Compass for Europe – ‘When Culture wins, Europe wins’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: Accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Morwenna Slade IHBC on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 09/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 09/12/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 09/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: DB on IHBC’s ‘… From Crafts in crisis to rubbish in retrofit’… ‘5 commitments to help heritage skills in conservation’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Three reasons not to demolish Edinburgh’s Argyle House – by architect Malcolm Fraser 09/12/2025
- Welsh Government Flexible Skills Programme (FSP) 09/12/2025
- First Session of the World Heritage APPG held on November 5 2025 09/12/2025
- RIBA responds to Autumn Budget 2025 09/12/2025
- Consultation: England’s Building Control charges, notices and certificates, to 25/01 09/12/2025
- RIBA & partners call for raise the age of eligibility for Level 7 apprenticeship funding 09/12/2025
- BEFS Planning Forward Event Outcomes Report published 09/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’ (Compass 1): ‘A Culture Compass for Europe’ 09/12/2025
- 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
Monthly Archives: December 2025
IHBC issues formal notice to all IHBC Members for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start
IHBC AGM WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY 2026 ONLINE:Presentation from 5.30pm and AGM from 6.00pmAGM FOR IHBC MEMBERS ONLY
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IHBC welcomes Vice President Torsten Haak as Guest Judge for 2025 Student Award: Selecting next ‘Gus Astley’ winner, to receive £500 + Newcastle School place, 18-20 June 2026
The IHBC is delighted to welcome Torsten Haak, Executive Director of the Iona Community and IHBC’s Vice President as our guest judge for IHBC’s 2025 Gus Astley Student Award, supporting our student awards programme of certificates, cash prizes & free … Continue reading
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IHBC Toolbox’s latest Guidance Note update now out: ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’
The IHBC’s Toolbox resource has had its latest Guidance Note update, on ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’, issued as a reminder to ‘local planning authorities of their statutory duty under the 2015 Direction’.
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Tagged amenity, conservation, consultation, expertise, government, heritage, localauthority, planning, policy, societies
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IHBC Signpost: DB the Construction Wiki Temporary Structures
image for illustration: Hyde Park : temporary pavilion, Serpentine Gallery photo by Jim Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Designing Buildings (DB), host platform to the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki, features ‘Temporary Structures’ in its Wiki-based resources.
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Tagged building, construction, Designing Buildings, environment, planning, structure
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans, warns The Guardian.
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Government launches call for submissions to UK’s first national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – ‘living Heritage – open to 27/03
The Government has launched a call for submissions to the UK’s first-ever national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – living heritage – on foot of the UK’s ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible … Continue reading
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Tagged cultural heritage, government, safeguarding, UK
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UK Heritage Pulse: Spotlight on Heritage Crime
Pulse Monitor is the monthly health check on the heritage sector from the Heritage Fund, which measures its resilience, confidence and ambition, and there are some exceptional results from October that are out of step with recent trends.
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Tagged crime, damage, economics, expertise, heritage, questionnaire
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UK State of the Trades: a Report on the current UK Trade Landscape
The UK State of the Trades report 2026 has been issued, commissioned by Jackson Woodturners.
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Tagged craft, customers, expertise, questionnaire, report, skills, trade, woodwork
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RIBA Business Benchmarking Report 2025 issued
RIBA Business Benchmarking Report 2025 published: The annual RIBA Business Benchmarking survey provides vital business knowledge about how your practice compares to others.
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Tagged architects, business, economics, expertise, RIBA, salary
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep 2: ‘Europa?Nostra on new Culture Compass for Europe – ‘When Culture wins, Europe wins’
Europa?Nostra, the pan-European Voice of Civil Society committed to Cultural Heritage, also in its role as Leader of the European Heritage Hub, welcomes and strongly endorses the Culture?Compass for Europe.
IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: Accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Morwenna Slade IHBC on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’
IHBC’s new edition of its members’ journal Context is out – No. 185 – and our first spotlight for NewsBlog readers features Morwenna Slade on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’.
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, cpd, environment, expertise, government, heritage, learning, nature, planning, publication, skills
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IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!)
As part of the IHBC’s suite of resources and guidance designed to make it easier for our Supporter members to advance to the Affiliate member category, we are delighted to announce our next Supporter Surgery, to take place on 11 … Continue reading
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Tagged accreditation, building, climate change, conservation, cpd, environment, expertise, government, heritage, nature, planning, resources, skills
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Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit
To connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates our NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on the ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts and tell your boss or team how our low-cost service … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, employment, environment, expertise, government, heritage, jobs, nature, planning, professional, skills
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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
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, conservation, environment, expertise, government, heritage, planning, retrofit, skills
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: DB on IHBC’s ‘… From Crafts in crisis to rubbish in retrofit’… ‘5 commitments to help heritage skills in conservation’
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 on the IHBC’s own‘‘5 commitments to help heritage … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Three reasons not to demolish Edinburgh’s Argyle House – by architect Malcolm Fraser
image for illustration: Argyle House, Edinburgh by Magnus Hagdorn from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Although it’s described as ‘Edinburgh’s ugliest building’ by some, a new plan to replace Argyle House with a hotel and flats is ‘madness, … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, environment, government, heritage, planning, Scotland
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Welsh Government Flexible Skills Programme (FSP)
Upskilling your employees with the Flexible Skills Programme Partnership Projects.
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First Session of the World Heritage APPG held on November 5 2025
The first session of the World Heritage APPG was held at Westminster on November 5 2025 with a theme on planning.
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Tagged APPG, conservation, expertise, global, government, heritage, skills
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RIBA responds to Autumn Budget 2025
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has issued a response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s 2025 Autumn Budget calling for extension of support to Level 7 built environment professionals.
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Consultation: England’s Building Control charges, notices and certificates, to 25/01
Government UK has launched a public consultation paper setting out proposals and questions relating to charges for building control services provided by local authorities, open to 25 January 2026.
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Tagged building, consultation, government, localauthority, planning, regulations
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RIBA & partners call for raise the age of eligibility for Level 7 apprenticeship funding
With funding for Level 7 apprenticeships soon to be only for those aged 16 to 21, the has led an open letter to government asking them to raise the age of eligibility for funding to 25 years old for built … Continue reading
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BEFS Planning Forward Event Outcomes Report published
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has published its ‘Places of Worship: Planning Forward Event Outcomes Report’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’ (Compass 1): ‘A Culture Compass for Europe’
The ‘Culture Compass for Europe’ is a new communication from the European Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.
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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
IHBC’s 2025 Westminster launch of ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit’, also boasts a web hub with the Briefing video and a ‘Feedback’ option, so please help us reduce damage … Continue reading
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IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!)
As part of the IHBC’s suite of resources and guidance designed to make it easier for our Supporter members to advance to the Affiliate member category, we are delighted to announce our next Supporter Surgery, to take place on 11 … Continue reading
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