MPs say ‘Warm homes retrofit failures pushing UK clean, secure energy targets further off track’

Posted on 18/07/2025 by IHBC

A new report sets out practical measures needed to provide essential certainty and confidence for households and supply chains.

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Scotland’s urgent Church Challenge helped by National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant to Scotland’s Churches Trust & Soc Ant Scot

Posted on 18/07/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: St John’s, Ballachulish by Fiona Newton

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Soc Ant Scot) and Scotland’s Churches Trust have announced a £229,015 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help ensure a sustainable future for Scotland’s churches and their contents.

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CMS Select Committee update on protecting built heritage, hear calls for end to ‘boom and bust’ heritage funding

Posted on 18/07/2025 by IHBC

MPs in the course of evidence given to the Culture Media and Sport (CMS) Select Committee on protecting built heritage were told that time-limited grants and skills gaps in heritage crafts and trades are among challenges facing the sector, reports the Arts Professional.

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Looking back at IHBC’s Context 183 (Part 2): IHBC’s members’ journal with Alexandra Fairclough’s ‘Law and Policy update’, UK-wide, plus Planning Appeals (with a shark)

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

Our Spring issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context – No. 183 includes a ‘Law and Policy update’ by Alexandra Fairclough, as she looks across the UK at ‘Planning for change (and a shark)…’

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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost update to RICHeS Survey: For Heritage Science community and networks, input sought to 1 August

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

The Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) programme – the UK’s strategy to unlock access to heritage science facilities – seeks wide-ranging input to a new short survey (15 mins) to shape the future programme.

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LAST CHANCE TO APPLY: IHBC seeks ‘Branch Consultants’ with strong interpersonal, IT & comms skills for flexible part-time (typically 4 hours/week) regional support: Help boost locally-led conservation and volunteers, @£25/hour + expenses, closes 18 July

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

If you want to help the IHBC’s UK-wide built and historic environment conservation practice Branch network, have strong IT, comms & interpersonal skills, and seek flexible home-working with huge potential for engagement, travel and supporting interdisciplinary conservation, please let us know as advised below, before 18 July.

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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: DB on ‘Architects, architecture, buildings, construction and inspiration in film’

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

Designing Buildings (DB) features a timely piece on ‘Architects, architecture, buildings, construction and inspiration in film’.

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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Arch Daily’s ‘Tribute to Léon Krier’

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

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 Arch Daily’s ‘Tribute to Léon Krier’.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Future of Southend’s Kursaal discussed at Parliament meeting

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

The future of a landmark seafront building in Southend, the Kursaal, has been discussed at a meeting in Parliament, reports The Echo.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Built heritage trusts in Glasgow receive new funding from council

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration (edited to remove person): The Glasshouse, Queens Park, Glasgow by Chris Haikney, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Total funding of £290,000 for the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) and the Glasgow City Heritage Trust (GCHT) for the next year has been approved by Glasgow City Council.

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CoE: Major refurbishment of Lambeth Palace completed

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Lambeth Palace Restored by Unknown, painting of 1715, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The three-year project refurbishing Lambeth Palace, launched by the Church Commissioners in summer 2022, is the first refurbishment of the Grade I listed heritage building in more than 70 years, reports the Church of England (CoE).

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Kicking restoration of Parliament down the road risks disaster, authorities told

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

A Labour former cabinet minister highlighted ‘a real danger of a Notre Dame-type inferno or something worse’ unless action is taken.

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University of Cambridge on ‘The Business Case for Integrated Retrofit: How banks, insurers, and the government can support healthy, efficient, and resilient homes’

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

A joint research between Banking Environment Initiative and ClimateWise examines the socioeconomic and resilience benefits of building retrofit, and proposes business case for banks, insurance companies, and the government.

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CIOB responds to committee report criticising UK retrofit schemes

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

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The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has responded to a report of the UK’s Energy Security and Net Zero Committee which says poorly designed retrofit schemes, a ‘skills crisis’ and costly assurance failures have significantly set back efforts to decarbonise home heating and bring down energy bills.

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Investing in community regeneration in Scotland – Projects to unlock economic growth and tackle poverty

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

Projects across Scotland will benefit from Scottish Government investment to help regenerate communities and drive economic growth.

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RIBA Library and Collections services update June 2025

Posted on 15/07/2025 by IHBC

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A RIBA Library and Collections services update, June 2025 says its ‘library is currently closed for refurbishment works as part of our House of Architecture programme’.

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Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August:  IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.

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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost update to RICHeS Survey: For Heritage Science community and networks, input sought to 1 August

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

The Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) programme – the UK’s strategy to unlock access to heritage science facilities – seeks wide-ranging input to a new short survey (15 mins) to shape the future programme.

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IHBC’s Professional Signpost:  Last chances for ECHOES Consultation, open to mid-July: Help ‘…map cultural heritage communities’ needs & expectations’

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

The ECHOES Consultation aims to map diverse cultural heritage communities and understand their needs and expectations for the Cultural Heritage Cloud. With their contribution, we will be able to set up the Cultural Heritage Cloud with and for the communities.

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IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: House of Commons Committee Report on ‘Condition of Government Property’

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report on the ‘Condition of Government Property’ has been published, together with minutes relating to the Report on 11 June 2025.

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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: British Academy on ‘Value of social and cultural infrastructure ‘risks being neglected in decision-making’ without new measurement framework’

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

A new British Academy report – Measuring Social and Cultural Infrastructure – emphasises the urgent need for policymakers to recognise social and cultural spaces as essential infrastructure contributing directly to economic growth and reducing social inequalities.

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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £8.4M+ of weekly works: Authority asset valuations, to 04/08 & £173K+

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is from an estate holding authority planning valuations of its properties, to 04/08 and valued at £173,250.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep: ‘It survived two World Wars…’ – Heartbreak as Manchester’s Hotspur Press left a smouldering ruin

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Hotspur Press on Fire by Jotaht, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On 24 June, people woke up with the tragic realisation that one of Manchester’s oldest and most symbolic buildings the Hotspur Press has been destroyed, reports Manchester Evening News.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep: Hull CC Cabinet approves new plan to invest in Hull’s infrastructure

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: James Wells / Hull Bridge Commons Wiki

A five-year plan to significantly improve and enhance many of the city’s bridges, statues, monuments, and fountains has been given the green light by Hull City Council’s (CC) Cabinet, reports Hull News.

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European Commission and Europa Nostra announce the winners of Europe’s top heritage awards 2025

Posted on 11/07/2025 by IHBC

On June 12 the European Commission and Europa Nostra announced the 2025 winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, which are co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, with 30 outstanding winners from 24 countries across the continent.

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