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Historic England (HE) explores how the Stockton and Darlington Railway became the world’s first modern public railway in 1825.
Continue readingA new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) sets out the reasons for failures in the government’s energy efficiency scheme for homes, including poor-quality installations, weak government oversight and inadequate audit and monitoring.
Continue readingThe contributions of towns across the UK to our national life will be celebrated through a new competition, the Culture Secretary has announced.
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The Heritage Alliance (THA) is calling for Case Studies to feature in our digital programme for Heritage Debate 2025, with submissions due by Friday 24 October.
Continue readingGovernment UK has issued the ‘Independent report: New Towns Taskforce: Report to government’.
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Local communities will be handed new powers to revitalise their high streets and restore pride in their towns, reports Government UK.
Continue reading‘Creative Health: UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey’ is for everyone working, volunteering or engaging with creative health in the UK or Ireland.
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IHBC’s members’ journal Context from June 2025 – No. 184 – focussed on ‘Leaders of conservation thought’, and featured in our Vox Pop Mike Brown, Immediate Past President (IPP) of the IHBC.
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The IHBC has posted online its updated Communications and Outreach Strategy, for 2025-28, with a foreword by IHBC Chair David McDonald, which also serves as the current Business Plan for the IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Committee, chaired by Dave Chetwyn, trustee and IHBC Secretary.
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The IHBC is delighted to announce the launch of the Home Page of the 2026 Annual School, to take place in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ and across up to 20 hours CPD.
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Historic England will not stand in the way of Coventry’s Grade II listed Olympic-sized swimming pool building being demolished, reports BBC News.
Continue readingGovernment has launched its response to the Report of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee of the House of Commons, with a £13.2bn programme.
Continue readingThe Historic Houses (HH) report, ‘Historic houses: the heart of Scotland’s rural tourism’ has found that legislative uncertainty, complex regulation and mounting fiscal pressures are threatening the future of rural tourism businesses in Scotland.
Continue readingFunding available to support regional museums and galleries to ensure collections are more accessible to the public, open to applications to 14 November.
Continue readingThe Heritage Alliance (THA) is planning to publish a report exploring how the heritage sector is helping to create vibrant, creative, thriving, and sustainable places for people to live, work, and enjoy, to feed into their upcoming Heritage Debate 2025.
Continue reading‘Wellbeing in Buildings’, a Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) Topic Guide by Sorcha Redmond, has been issued.
Continue readingPolitical think tank DEMOS has published ‘A room with a view: remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog by Lucy Bush, Director of Research and Participation.
Continue readingThe Town of Oakville is investigating after a designated heritage home was demolished despite having the protection of the Ontario Heritage Act.
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Continue readingIHBC’s members’ journal Context in June 2025 – No. 184 – focussed on ‘Leaders of conservation thought’, but also included Sammy Woodford on ‘’The world of generative AI’.
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The IHBC has commended the new The Gardens Trust report ‘Harnessing Parks and Gardens in the 21st Century: How historic landscapes can support and enhance our today and tomorrow’, recently launched at Red Cross Garden in London.
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The IHBC is among 33 leading organisations from across planning, housing, nature, and energy to signed a letter to the Housing and Planning Minister calling for £6.8Mn in urgent funding for Planning Schools to continue to recruit and train apprentice planners.
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The IHBC has issued a new form to help ensure sector events with IHBC CPD values can be considered for inclusion in our free IHBC ‘Events Calendar’, with submissions required at least 2 weeks before the end any month to allow for any inclusion in the IHBC’s CPD Circular.
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Campaigners fighting plans to redevelop an area on the edge of the Barbican Estate have won permission to proceed with a legal challenge that claims alternatives to demolition were overlooked, reports the Architects Journal.
Continue readingLeading lawyer, Catherine Howard, has been appointed to advise the Chancellor on the next phase of planning and infrastructure reforms as she vows to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’.
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