The IHBC has just launched the next stage of its practitioner support ‘Toolbox’, an integrated online resource for built and historic environment conservation practice that, among other support to come, now offers easy access to the IHBC’s new Guidance Notes programme, one that covers wide-ranging issues extending from the negotiating practice to the specification of Planning Authority duties in England, as well as the use of injunctions.
IHBC Chair Mike Brown said: ‘The launch of this next stage in the IHBC’s ‘Toolbox’ marks another important step up in the institute’s support for members especially, but also for practitioners with more general interests in conservation.’
‘The Toolbox is being designed very much as a ready-to-use piece of conservation ‘kit’, to help skilled and unskilled alike more easily understand, access and secure the most useful and appropriate information they need to deliver conservation policy, practice and outcomes.’
‘Indeed, as we know, time is money for our own members too, so speedy access to knowledge, learning and advice all lie at the heart of our design of the ‘toolbox’. And of course as ever if you think you have ideas on the Toolbox that can help improve either our work or yours, do please get in touch!’
IHBC Policy Secretary David Kincaid said: ‘The practical implementation of conservation policy has long been one of the major challenges faced by our sector, and we hope that these guidance notes will begin to fill the critical gaps in practitioner support.’
Bob Kindred, IHBC’s Research Consultant, and Vice Chair of the IHBC’s Education, Training and Standards (ETS) Committee, said: ‘Our Research Notes & Guidance Notes programme offers current and recent research and advice into topics that we consider crucial to the promotion of good built and historic environment conservation policy and practice.’
‘In many specific areas of current policy and practice, there are information gaps. Our Notes necessarily reflect what is happening any one time and some of the work we are doing is in the form of crowd-sourcing to uncover good work that IHBC members and others are doing but not easily accessible to the sector. IHBC will always welcomes new case examples, feedback and comment for future revisions and periodic updates. This can come direct to me at research@ihbc.org.uk.’
Current Guidance Notes cover:
- Annual Conservation Management Statements: Best Practice
- Negotiating Skills
More will be published shortly and announced via the NewsBlogs
For links to the Guidance Notes see the IHBC Toolbox
For links to the Research Notes see the IHBC Toolbox
