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IHBC welcomes Annual Student Award guest judge – John Fidler to select next ‘Gus Astley’ winner for £500 + Reading School, #IHBCReading2024, 12-15 June

Posted on 27/10/2023 by IHBC

The IHBC is delighted to welcome John Fidler – a founder member of the IHBC’s predecessor, the Association of Conservation Officers and first editor of Context, and now retired from his international consultancy – as the guest judge for the current IHBC Gus Astley Student Award, where his choice and others will receive certificates, cash prizes and a free place at the IHBC’s 2024 Reading School, #IHBCReading2024, on 12-15 June. Continue reading →

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IHBC’s SE Branch: Booking open on St John’s Catholic Seminary, Wonersh – 3/11 & 11/11, all welcome, especially new members

Posted on 27/10/2023 by IHBC

Booking is still open to all for the IHBC South East (SE) Branch CPD and networking site visits and tours of St John’s Catholic Seminary, Wonersh, near Guildford, on 3 and 11 November 2023, with members new and old from all Branches especially encouraged to come along.

Liverpool City Council has announced that it is set to adopt a new policy relating to the design and location of new tall buildings that are constructed in the city, reports Public Sector Executive.

image for illustration: Dave Chetwyn

A section of the back of the Old Courthouse in Cockermouth has fallen away and landed in the River Cocker below, reports The Standard.

image for illustration: Cumberland Council

English Heritage has launched its new Sustainable Conservation Principles, ‘to address the challenges we face in a modern world’.

The Hamish Ogston Foundation has said it will be changing its name in the next couple of weeks after allegations of human trafficking were made against its eponymous founder.

A property developer has been ordered to pay more than £6,700 by South Staffordshire Council after building ‘a road to nowhere’ on open green belt land in South Staffordshire.

image: South Staffordshire Council

Scotland’s new National Planning Improvement Champion – Craig McLaren – is calling for ideas on what a high-performing planning system looks like and what impact it has, to 30/11.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is targeting nine ‘places with heritage needs, opportunities and potential’ to offer new support as part of its Heritage Places initiative.

image: NLHF – Oldway Mansion, Paignton

Ahead of Historic Houses’ 50th anniversary in November 2023, it has have published a new report, Changing Times, Valuing History: historic houses for the 21st century, illustrating the economic, cultural and social contribution of our member places across the UK.

The World Heritage Committee has decided to inscribe 139 French, German, Belgian, American and Commonwealth funeral and memorial sites of the First World War, a preservation under the aegis of UNESCO justified by the linked Outstanding Universal Value.

image: Ministère De La Culture

Public Practice has published its Annual Report for 2022-2023 with findings on the skills, recruitment, and retention challenges facing Local Government (LG) in 2022-2023.

Barratt David Wilson Homes Cambridgeshire has asked for permission to demolish the 83 affected properties at the Darwin Green development on the edge of Cambridge, reports Cambridgeshire Live.

image for illustration – Open Government Licence v3.0

Forty-five treasured institutions pubs museums and sports clubs across the United Kingdom (UK) have been given £12.3m levelling up funding to safeguard their futures.

image: The team behind the Vale of Aeron pub, which has received £300,000 from the Community Ownership Fund – Open Government Licence v3.0

The Carbon Trust has published its 2022-2023 report outlining how it places impact delivery at the centre of their work and culture.

A new report from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), which highlights the organisation’s own social value, has been published.

The 2023 State of Nature report shows that the abundance of species studied in the UK has declined by 19 per cent on average since records began in 1970, while work to protect landscapes has clear benefits for nature, people and climate.

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Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) has welcomed the publication of the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill, which was published on Friday 29 September.

The winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023, Europe’s top honour in the field, have been celebrated at the iconic Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido in Venice.

Scotland’s leading planner – Ian Aikman, chair of Heads of Planning Scotland (HOPS) – has responded to the ‘Scotland’s broken planning system’ series of Scottish Construction Now (SCN), noting the ‘demographic time-bomb’ facing planning departments.

image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0

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