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- IHBC takes key step forward in Parliamentary ‘5 Commitments’ delivery, joining National Federation of Builders’ National Heritage Skills Forum 10/11/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 10/11/2026
- Save the Date for #IHBCBristolBath2027 – Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Climate Change & Significance’, June 10-12 2027: IHBC’s Annual School, with online options, free pre-conference webinars & more… 10/11/2026
- Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 10/11/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD signpost: Deregulated housing conversions linked to poor health and wellbeing, from UCL 10/11/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: The Guardian on Clifton Suspension Bridge… ‘A big responsibility’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Back on track as Leas Lift carriages return home 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: New Visitor Levy fund to help futureproof Edinburgh’s cultural and heritage buildings 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: National Railway Museum celebrates start of construction on… the Porterbrook gallery 10/11/2026
- Nominate a building for the 20th edition of the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list, before 4 January 10/11/2026
- National Trust: ‘Landmark act of generosity secures home of London’s oldest restaurant for the future’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ‘Preserving Legacies Climate Heritage Cohort Program’, open to 8 January, ‘…work with a place that is culturally significant to your community’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC offers advice and support in roll out of ‘Historic Environment Policy for Northern Ireland’ 06/11/2026
- IHBC’s November CPD Circular: Your user-friendly ‘What’s on’ guide to heritage learning, networking and experiences, from Branches to ‘CPD Providers’ & beyond… 06/11/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 06/11/2026
- Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 06/11/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD signpost: RICHeS Access Fund 2nd call opens, to £20K & 15/12, to access ‘cutting-edge equipment, collections & expertise’, for charities, social enterprises, commercial companies etc. 06/11/2026
- IHBC Director’s top pick from HESPR’s £68M+ works: BID seeks multidisciplinary team to study local retail areas, to 20/11 and £40K 06/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (builders) doorstep’: Budget measures welcomed, but much more work left to do – industry warns 06/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Castle Eden bridge demolition plans withdrawn by Stockton Borough Council 06/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Westminster honours engineer who helped inspire the world of James Bond 06/11/2026
- Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2029 06/11/2026
- Local History Hub launches new School & Heritage Consultancy pilot 06/11/2026
- AHF awards new grants through the Heritage Revival Fund 06/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: First Joint Transnational Call of the ‘Resilient Cultural Heritage Partnership’ to 11 January 2027 06/11/2026
£3.5M boost for Scotland’s historic environment: SCT, NTS and more
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Memorial to plantation owner and slaver John Gordon removed from Dorset church
A memorial to an 18th Century slaver and plantation owner John Gordon has been removed from St Peter’s, Dorchester, reports the BBC.
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2023 celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’: Enter online before 1/09/23
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2023 joint Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) celebrating ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, now open for submissions and closing end August 2023.
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IHBC welcomes address by Welsh Government Deputy Minister Dawn Bowden MS to #IHBCSwansea2023 – ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ – 23 June, in Swansea and online
The IHBC warmly welcomes the agreement by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS to address Day School delegates – in Swansea and online – at the IHBC’s 2023 Annual School: ‘Climate Change the Historic Environment, Resilience and Performance’.
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Check out IHBC’s re-cast online Heritage MarketPlace, free to visit and use: Supporting #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC’s recast Heritage MarketPlace web resource is a new way to access, promote and secure quality services, advice, guidance and more on all aspects of heritage and conservation – its care, checking and changing – free and accessible to users, affordable and quality profiling for commercial and charity Stallholders.
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IHBC’s Practice Signpost from DB: BSRIA’s Rules of Thumb – Guidelines for building services
‘Rules of Thumb – Guidelines for building services’ (5th Edition) (BG 9/2011), written by Glen Hawkins and published in April 2011, remains a valuable source of engineering design, environmental performance and project cost data for building services projects, but publishers BSRIA are to replace it with a number of smaller publications with updated content.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: AJ on RIBA London Award winners – all 52!
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 the Architects’ Journal (AJ) on ‘RIBA London awards 2023: all 52 winners revealed’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: London couple ordered to tear down £80K extension and pay £200K legal bill
Shabaz Ashraf and wife Shakira were told to tear apart extension to their £700,000 London home because it was built over two inches too close to their neighbours’ house, reports The Evening Standard.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Council to challenge ‘irrational’ solar farm decision in High Court
Telford & Wrekin Council will challenge the government’s decision to allow New Works Lane solar farm to go ahead in the High Court.
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Visitor numbers to Cadw sites on track to full recovery post-Covid
Visitor numbers to Cadw’s staffed sites have made an impressive recovery in the financial year 2022/23, reaching to 92% of pre-Covid levels with some sites performing better on pre-Covid levels.
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£5K funding boosts to support young people into England’s planning careers
Over 50 students will receive a £5,000 planning bursary, covering up to 50% of university fees, to support a career in planning.
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England’s Council leaders defend planning system
Council leaders in England have hit back at a claim that local planning systems are preventing tens of thousands of homes from being built each year.
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HES Annual Operating Plan 2023-24 published
The Historic Environment Scotland (HES) ‘Annual Operating Plan 2023-24’ outlines the activities planned, and build on the progress made since Heritage for All was first published.
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European Heritage Hub and European Data Space for Heritage discussed at Alliance 2023 Spring meeting in Brussels
The spring plenary meeting of the European Heritage Alliance with representatives of 21 member organisations, and with the new European Heritage Hub project and the European data space for cultural heritage were the main topics on the agenda.
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New Scientist: Notre Dame fire revealed cathedral’s innovative use of iron
New Scientist has reported on how the 2019 fire at the Notre Dame, Paris, unexpectedly led to discovery of the building’s use of iron staple reinforcements throughout its structure.
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IHBC Marsh Awards for 2023 announced: Graham Arnold (NW) and Stewart Ramsdale (NO) Joint ‘Retired’ winners with mason Jessica Eyre for ‘Successful Learning’
Judges in the eighth year of the IHBC Marsh Charitable Trust Awards are delighted to announce the 2023 Awards, with a joint award for ‘Community Contribution by a Retired Member of the IHBC’ to Graham Arnold (Northwest Branch) and Stewart Ramsdale (North Branch), and the ‘Successful Learning in Heritage Skills’ going to Jessica Eyre of Triglyph Masonry.
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IHBC’s Swansea Annual School highlight: Putting sustainability and improved energy performance into practice with Adam Hitchings, AHF, 23 June
The IHBC is delighted that Adam Hitchings of the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) will speak at the Day School of the institute’s 2023 Annual Swansea School, informing the School theme of ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ by exploring sustainability and improved energy performance in heritage practice.
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IHBC launches #IHBCPetitionforCharter consultation web hub & resource: Peruse, pass on and promote as suits, with funding for Branch initiatives open too
The IHBC has launched its consultation web hub & resource offering context, updates and more on the prospect of an IHBC Petition for Charter – #IHBCPetitionforCharter – to help engagement on the issues around the IHBC seeking a Royal Charter – the ‘Petition for Charter’ – with funding for volunteer and Branch initiatives open too.
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IHBC opens call to c.130 Heritage MarketPlace Stalls with ‘Zoom Room’ offers to reach visitors at the MarketPlace:LIVE 2023 Swansea School online launch, 21 June, 4.30-7.00pm
The IHBC has written to Heritage MarketPlace stallholders – our recast web directory and hub for anyone seeking heritage-related support – offering the chance to host ‘Zoom Rooms’ to meet, guide and advise visitors to the online MarketPlace:LIVE launch of the 2023 Annual School: Climate Change and the Historic Environment’.
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IHBC’s Competence Signpost (Finance & Economics): Pioneering new approaches in Scotland’s emerging natural capital markets
As the UK Infrastructure Bank announces its intention to commit to its first natural capital deal, Kate McGavin and Helen Williams, job-share Director of Strategy and Policy, highlight how this investment can help deliver for climate and biodiversity – and grow the future market for nature-based investment.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £100K costed works this week: Council seeks architect for GII complex retrofit, closing 31/05, valued to £100K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick for this week features a County Council’s call for an architect for the retrofit of a Grade II (GII) heritage complex, closing 31/05, valued to £100K.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Fire at Bristol’s Underfall Yard – from Bristol Ferry & Bristol 247
Wooden sheds and more at Bristol’s historic Underfall Yard – ‘home to maritime businesses involved in boatbuilding, marine engineering, metal working and training’ – went ablaze on 6 May, Bristol 247 reported, with restoration funding now sought, while Bristol Ferry reported on being ‘heartbroken at the loss of this significant historical piece of Bristol’s maritime history’.
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Landowner fined £20K for making unauthorised changes to listed building
A landowner who carried out unauthorised works to a listed building has been fined £20,000 after failing to comply with an enforcement notice.
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Local democracy threatened by levelling up bill’s key measures, warns CPRE
More than eight out of 10 councillors fear local democracy will be eroded unless MPs and peers heed their warnings and amend the government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which is close to completing its passage through Parliament, argues The Countryside Charity CPRE.
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New research report shows success of government’s support for cultural sector during pandemic
A new, independent report has revealed that the Government’s unprecedented £1.57 billion package of emergency cultural funding during the pandemic was delivered efficiently, helping support nearly 220,000 jobs and 5,000 organisations.
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