The last block of high flats in Ayr is still standing after South Ayrshire Council was forced to stop demolition teams from clearing the site, reports Scottish Construction Now from The Ayrshire Post.
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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
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the… rooftop’: Last Ayr tower block demolition halted due to roof-top masts… till 2025?
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HE: Heritage could help add £2.7Bn to Northern Economy
Heritage working together with the arts, culture, nature and environment sectors could provide an extra £2.7 billion to the Northern economy, helping to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and regenerate the North.
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Net zero: Climate action delay will hurt economy, Tory MP’s review says
The BBC reports that a Conservative MP, Chris Skidmore, in a report commissioned by former prime minister Liz Truss, argues that delaying climate action risks damaging the UK’s economic prospects.
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‘When we invest in our town centres, we also invest in civic pride’: Griff Rhys Jones at the APPG for Civic Societies
Griff Rhys Jones, renowned broadcaster, TV personality, and Civic Voice President, delivered a powerful and passionate speech on the importance of pride in place at the recent All-Party Parliamentary Group for Civic Societies meeting.
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HOD events: Applications for New Wave 2023 close 18 January
New Wave is an annual training and development programme that takes a small cohort through a structured programme on working with young adults to develop new, innovative Heritage Open Days (HOD) events, with applications open to 18 January!
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Don’t forget to ‘Reward Your Volunteer Heroes’: England’s nominations close 15/01
Heritage Alliance (THA) is calling for nominations for Heritage Heroes, closing 15/01, with the special category for this year being Ecclesiastical’s Heritage Storyteller Award.
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Museums and Heritage awards deadline: 01/02
The Museums + Heritage Awards welcomes entries from all sector organisations, regardless of size or location with a deadline of 1 February 2023.
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Cadw’s new HE Update: Senedd Debate on HE (Wales) Bill (17/01) & Public Commemoration consultation (to 21/02)
Cadw’s Historic Environment Update No 23 highlights the Senedd Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill on 17/01 and the ‘Public Commemoration..: Guidance for Public Bodies’ consultation closing 21/02.
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Venice Successfully Deployed a Very Low-Tech Measure to Protect Saint Mark’s Basilica From High Tide: Glass Barriers
Saint Mark’s Basilica stayed nice and drying during flooding earlier this month as a result of a very low tech measure to protect it from high tide: glass barriers.
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IHBC applauds Boston Council on S.215 prosecution for failure to maintain GII listed town centre building: Fined £4.5K
The owner of a listed town-centre property has been prosecuted by the Boston Borough Council for failing to carry out proper maintenance of their Grade II building, and fined £4,500.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’ No.1: Designing Building on 2022’s most popular posts, including IHBC on ‘Design Codes’ at No.6
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’s news features Designing Building (DB) on some of its most popular posts from 2022.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’ No.2: Building on Liverpool Street Station design changes following listing expansion
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’s news features Building on ‘Design changes to Liverpool Street Station following expansion of listing’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (landscape) doorstep’ 2: Plans for Scotland’s first ‘Hobbit Village’ revealed
Berwickshire is now known worldwide as the home of ‘New Asgard’, but now there’s a bid to bring a little bit of Middle Earth to the region, writes The Southern Reporter.
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HE Heritage Schools 10th anniversary report shows learning about local heritage at school improves local pride
Historic England has published an impact report demonstrating the success of its Heritage Schools programme, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary.
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Council pledges to reopen Nottingham Castle following liquidation as trust winds up affairs
Nottingham City Council says it will reopen Nottingham Castle ‘as soon as possible’ after the independent trust appointed to run it went into liquidation.
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Centre for Cultural Value project: ‘Making Data Work… for public sector policy’
‘Making data work for public sector policy’ is a project that brings together cultural sector partners, data specialists and policymakers to explore how better data can lead to better policy.
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HE-funded survey on apprenticeships: Employers and ‘early careers’ – close mid-Feb 2023
Historic England (HE) has commissioned research to inform its strategic approach to apprenticeships and seeks responses to two online surveys – employer and early career interests – closing mid-February.
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Culture Action Europe on CultureForHealth report: ‘Culture: a driver for health and wellbeing in the EU’
A scoping CultureForHealth review – ‘Culture: a driver for health and wellbeing in the EU’ – aims to synthesise existing evidence on the positive effect of arts and cultural activities on health and well-being.
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Historic Environment Scotland: Annual Report… 2021-22
The Historic Environment Scotland ‘Annual Report and Financial Statements 2021-22’ has been published, highlighting some recent achievements.
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IHBC welcomes 2023 with Conservation Wiki’s top 20 IHBC posts for 2022
The IHBC’s ‘Conservation Wiki’, accessible through the our Designing Buildings (DB) partner, targets construction sector users, and the top 20 posts for 2022 range from Hot-mixed mortars, PAS 2035 and building regs to the history of listed buildings.
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New IHBC research resource for 2023 and #IHBC25: ‘Help us connect conservation practice and research as we plan our ‘IHBC Research for Practice Digest’
This NewsBlog kickstarts plans for our new ‘IHBC Research for Practice Digest’ in this anniversary year, #IHBC25, to help connect research and conservation practice, as we seek views, feedback, suggestions and ideas on a first draft for Issue 1.
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The most read stories on Scottish Construction Now in 2022
The demise of Dundee construction firm McGill was the most read story on Scottish Construction Now, but conservation-related matters also featured high on the list.
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IHBC Signpost: NPPF revision consultation closes 02/03
The prospectus for consultation on revising England’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) as part of Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (LURB) reforms has been published, and closes on 2 March 2023.
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £2.1M+ works: Reissue – National Heritage body seeks 25+ condition surveys, due 30/01, to £400K
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 re-issued call from a National Heritage Agency for more than 25 condition surveys, due 30/01 and valued £300K- £400K.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (landscape) doorstep’ 1: Huge Lake District area to be turned into ‘super nature reserve’
More than 7,400 acres in the Lake District have been designated as one of the first ‘super national nature reserves’ in England: Ennerdale Valley, as reported on by LancsLive.
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