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- Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 30/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes latest engineers’ CARE guidance for assessing proposed heritage demolition/partial demolition in UK & Ireland 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 30/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with ‘A carbon case for indigenous slate’ 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: Scotland’s APRS – Full Report on ‘Battery Energy Storage Systems and Planning’ 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s Practice Signpost: HE’s Guide, Toolkit & Case Studies for cultural & heritage bodies… ‘Developing a Decarbonisation Plan’ 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Historic Houses on ‘Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 Culture Recovery Fund’ 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost: Community Support Hub for the new Living Heritage in the UK inventory, 14/01, 12/02 & more 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy…’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s (Global) ‘Management’ Signpost: ‘Welcome to the Irish Walled Towns Network’ 30/12/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £86K+ of weekly works (23/12): Scottish contractor seeks project Conservation Architect, to 19/01 30/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Vic Soc) doorstep’: Griff Rhys Jones urges public to nominate historic buildings to save 30/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (HE) doorstep’: 19 Remarkable Historic Places Listed by Historic England in 2025 30/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: NTHP sues to stop White House Ballroom works for violating Constitutional property clause & absent Congress authorisation 30/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: House Europe needs 1 million signatures for laws to protect affordable housing and the climate, ‘and make renovation the new norm’ 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 23/12/2025
- Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Chris Wood on ‘A code of practice for slate and stone roofing’ 23/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary conservation practice standards deliver public benefit 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s Research signpost: ‘… synergy… of historic building retrofit and the heritage of traditional building craft practices…’ 23/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’ No.1: DB with its ‘Designing Buildings Christmas verse’ 23/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’ No.2: NCE on ‘The dilemma of industrial heritage’… 23/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (pub) doorstep’: The 12 Pubs of Christmas – a seasonal Blog from Historic England 23/12/2025
Daily Archives: 30/12/2025
Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM
IHBC Chair David McDonald has updated IHBC members on plans for the 2026 AGM, on 7 January, opening with Historic England’s Co-Chief Executive on ‘… roles and priorities – Growth, Place, and the Heritage Sector’ from 5.30pm.
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IHBC welcomes latest engineers’ CARE guidance for assessing proposed heritage demolition/partial demolition in UK & Ireland
The Conservation Accreditation Register for Engineers (CARE) has announced the latest issue of the CARE guidance for engineers when assessing heritage assets that are proposed to be demolished or partially demolished in the United Kingdon and Ireland.
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IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm
The IHBC is delighted to invite ALL our IHBC Committees to be represented at the next Branch Connection Event, taking place online on 22 January 2026, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, so if you a Committee member interested in joining in, … Continue reading
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IHBC issues formal notice 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’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with ‘A carbon case for indigenous slate’
IHBC’s new edition of its members’ journal Context is out – No. 185 –and for this round we feature Soki Rhee-Duverne and Jim Hart on ‘A carbon case for indigenous slate’.
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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: Scotland’s APRS – Full Report on ‘Battery Energy Storage Systems and Planning’
A report from Action to Protect Rural Scotland (APRS) – Scotland’s Countryside Charity – indicates that a moratorium is required to halt ‘huge oversupply’ of battery storage projects.
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IHBC’s Practice Signpost: HE’s Guide, Toolkit & Case Studies for cultural & heritage bodies… ‘Developing a Decarbonisation Plan’
Historic England is supporting cultural and heritage organisations responsible for historic buildings to navigate the processes and steps involved in decarbonising their buildings to meet their net zero targets.
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Historic Houses on ‘Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 Culture Recovery Fund’
The Historic Houses report ‘From Crisis to Recovery: Five Years On from the Culture Recovery Fund’ reveals the lasting impact of emergency funding on the UK’s independent historic houses.
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Tagged building, conservation, COVID, expertise, funding, grants, heritage
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IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost: Community Support Hub for the new Living Heritage in the UK inventory, 14/01, 12/02 & more
image for illustration: Dry stone wall, North York Moors National Park by Peter Badcock Heritage Crafts is an official Community Support Hub for the new Living Heritage in the UK Inventory launched by the Department for Culture Media and Sport … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy…’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01
image for illustration: Edinburgh panorama by Fiona Newton Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is inviting people across Scotland to help shape the future of some of the nation’s most important historic places and collections through a new public consultation.
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IHBC’s (Global) ‘Management’ Signpost: ‘Welcome to the Irish Walled Towns Network’
image for illustration: Derry City Walls, Derry/Londonderry by SeanMack, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Irish Walled Towns Network (IWTN) reports that the island of Ireland has 56 ‘proven’ walled towns, 33 of which have joined the IWTN.
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IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £86K+ of weekly works (23/12): Scottish contractor seeks project Conservation Architect, to 19/01
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members our exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s tender taster for NewsBlog readers this week a call from a Scottish … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Vic Soc) doorstep’: Griff Rhys Jones urges public to nominate historic buildings to save
image for illustration: The Victorian Society President of the Victorian Society Griff Rhys Jones says some of the most successful growth areas in the UK have been those which maintain a mixture of old and new buildings, reports Sky News.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (HE) doorstep’: 19 Remarkable Historic Places Listed by Historic England in 2025
image for illustration: Bude Storm Tower by Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Historic England are looking back over 2025 and celebrating 19 unusual historic buildings and places that have been granted protection in England over the past … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: NTHP sues to stop White House Ballroom works for violating Constitutional property clause & absent Congress authorisation
image for illustration: The White House by DJTechYT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), founded in 1949 by congressional charter to support the preservation of America’s diverse historic buildings, has sued the White … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: House Europe needs 1 million signatures for laws to protect affordable housing and the climate, ‘and make renovation the new norm’
Every minute, a building in Europe is destroyed – not by natural disaster, but by human hands, and House Europe wants to stop this destruction and make renovation the new norm, demanding new EU laws to protect affordable housing and … Continue reading
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