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 LocalGov on 33 bodies highlighting ‘Planning recruitment at risk’.
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William Eichler writes in LocalGov:
‘Thirty-three leading organisations [including IHBC] across planning, housing, nature, and energy are urging the Government to provide nearly £7m to recruit and train apprentice planners.’
‘….from January 2026, Level 7 apprenticeship levy funding will only cover 16–21-year-olds… could slash the workforce by 200 planners a year…’
‘…With around 70% of planning apprentices working in local government, the restrictions threaten to worsen pressures on an already overstretched system….
For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC’s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk, as soon as possible.
Tenders can also be advertised for a fee with IHBC Jobs etc, including a targeted email to 2500+ recipients as well as full coverage on our NewsBlog alerts and social platforms (membership and followers c.25,000) and websites with c. 250,000 visits a month. Contact Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk
