IHBC’s ‘Professional’ & ‘Management ‘ Signpost: DB’s ‘brief outline of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’, with terms, and amendments

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

Designing Buildings (DB), host platform to the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki, offers a summary update of the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB).

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IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £2.4M+ of weekly works: BC seeks review of Conservation Areas, to £50K

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members our exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s tender taster this week is a call from an English Borough Council (BC) for a review of its Conservation Areas, closed 28/11 and to £50K.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Two companies fined total of £190k for unauthorised Grade I listed building works following BNES council prosecution

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

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Bath & North East Somerset Council (BNES) has successfully prosecuted two companies for carrying out unauthorised works to a Grade I listed building in Bath which affected its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest.

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Government consultation: ‘Reforms to the statutory consultee system’, to 13/01/2026

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

Government UK are seeking views on reforming the role of statutory consultees in the planning system in England. This consultation closes on 13 January 2026.

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Gardens Trust on ‘Government Consultation on Removal of the Gardens Trust as a Statutory Consultee’

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

The Government has launched a consultation including the removal of the Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee, running until mid-January.

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NLHF launches Future Heritage Leadership Programme, open to 10/12, starting March 2026

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) has launched the Future Heritage Leadership programme, offering 12 successful applicants aged 18–30 an 18-month paid opportunity to gain hands-on experience in heritage governance and grant-making, with successful candidates starting in March 2026.

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As UK City of Culture 2029 opens, new ‘UK Town of Culture’ competition – to shine a spotlight on towns – opens soon too

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

Towns are encouraged to apply for new UK Town of Culture competition opening in the coming weeks, with UK City of Culture 2029 also open for applications.

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UK Parliamentary Cttee. launches International Climate Policy Inquiry, ‘on UK climate policy and finance’, seeking evidence, to 7/01/2026

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

Ahead of COP 30, where host country Brazil’s Presidency has set a strategic goal to transition from ‘negotiation to implementation’, the Energy Security and Net Zero Parliamentary Committee has launched a call for evidence in a major new inquiry on UK climate policy and finance.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European Heritage Excellence Day 2025 spotlights innovation, creativity and community engagement

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC


The European Heritage Excellence Day 2025 took place on 12 October at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels as part of the European Cultural Heritage Summit 2025. During the event, the 30 winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2025 presented their inspiring projects and shared key learnings to some 300 participants, including renowned experts, advocates, researchers and volunteers, who travelled to Brussels from all corners of Europe.

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PAS UPDATES

Posted on 28/11/2025 by IHBC

Pathways to Planning – Applications open now

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Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

To connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates our NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on the ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts and tell your boss or team how our low-cost service helps them and brings public benefits too!

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IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

Image Credits: S O’Reilly IHBC & F Newton IHBC

On 18 November the IHBC hosted the 2025 Westminster launch of its new ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’, informed by cross-cutting research into challenges across the full landscape of IHBC’s heritage skills interests… ‘From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit’.

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  • The Earl of Devon, Parliamentary sponsor for the IHBC’s Briefing, introducing the background to the IHBC’s ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’
  • Linsey Farnsworth MP for Amber Valley, offering a personal perspective on the importance and potential of Heritage Skills in Conservation
  • IHBC President Rebecca Thompson IHBC, Director of Property at St Paul’s Cathedral, launching the IHBC’s ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’
  • Research report author Jonathan Taylor IHBC, introducing the new research commissioned by the IHBC
  • General View of the Briefing
  • IHBC Officers returning after a busy evening in Westminster and the House of Commons
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IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost from Sheehan Quirke via Open Culture: ‘How did the world get so ugly?’

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

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Open Culture asks: ‘How Did The World Get So Ugly?: Then Versus Now’, offering Sheehan Quirke on video in response!

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (duplicate) doorstep’: Plans for first Iron Age broch ‘in 2000 years’ approved for Highlands

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: The Iron Age Mousa Broch by Iain Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Planning permission has been granted for the first broch in 2000 years to be constructed in the Highlands, reports The National.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep’: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Birnbeck Pier by Oliver Mills, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The restoration of a historic pier has been saved just before councillors were to cancel the project thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, reports the BBC.

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‘Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ – with ‘nature as essential to sustaining growth and a healthy society’

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

A new strategy from Natural England – ‘Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’, Natural England’s strategy – sets out how it will ‘move beyond protection to systemic, large-scale recovery of nature’.

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HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc.

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

Arts Council England (ACE) and Historic England (HE) have launched online resources for their Cultural and Heritage Sector Decarbonisation Project Pilot, to ‘support cultural and heritage organisations responsible for historic buildings [to] better understand… decarbonisation plans.’

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Government’s Pride in Place: Strategy update

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

The Pride in Place Strategy will help build stronger communities, create thriving places and empower local people, argues Government UK.

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Winners of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards announced!

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

The Georgian Group Architectural Awards have included Beckford’s Tower and Gorhambury House among eight projects to win in scheme celebrating exemplary conservation of Georgian heritage.

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Joining the dots: A single EDI portal for the sector

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) blog by Rebecca Lovelace, Founder and Chief Dot-joiner Building People, Speaks to a single EDI portal for the sector

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome

Posted on 25/11/2025 by IHBC

A worker who was trapped after part of a medieval tower collapsed in the heart of Rome, has died, according to hospital officials, reports BBC News.

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IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit

Posted on 21/11/2025 by IHBC

Image Credits: S O’Reilly IHBC & F Newton IHBC

On 18 November the IHBC hosted the 2025 Westminster launch of its new ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’, informed by cross-cutting research into challenges across the full landscape of IHBC’s heritage skills interests… ‘From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit’.

Images:

  • The Earl of Devon, Parliamentary sponsor for the IHBC’s Briefing, introducing the background to the IHBC’s ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’
  • Linsey Farnsworth MP for Amber Valley, offering a personal perspective on the importance and potential of Heritage Skills in Conservation
  • IHBC President Rebecca Thompson IHBC, Director of Property at St Paul’s Cathedral, launching the IHBC’s ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’
  • Research report author Jonathan Taylor IHBC, introducing the new research commissioned by the IHBC
  • General View of the Briefing
  • IHBC Officers returning after a busy evening in Westminster and the House of Commons
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IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post

Posted on 21/11/2025 by IHBC

Claudia Kenyatta CBE and Emma Squire CBE have taken up the role of Co-Chief Executives of Historic England, following the retirement of Duncan Wilson on 31 October 2025.

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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost from the NT: Public First report on ‘Local history, local heritage and local pride, in Coventry and across the UK’

Posted on 21/11/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Coventry Cathedral by DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The National Trust has issued a new Public First report: ‘There’s a lot of history here’: Local history, local heritage and local pride, in Coventry and across the UK’.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plans to turn three local villages into town to ‘help protect green belt’ backed by residents

Posted on 21/11/2025 by IHBC

A plan to merge three leafy local villages into a single town has been backed by residents in a bid to save swathes of countryside, reports Kenilworth Nub News.

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