Daily Archives: 09/12/2025

IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: Accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Morwenna Slade IHBC on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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