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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Scottish Government’s ‘Energy Performance Certificate reform – Consultation analysis’
A new report offers independent analysis of the consultation on EPC reform, held by the Scottish Government to gain views and greater understanding on what could be achieved in this area, has been issued.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1.9M+ of weekly works: NI govt service seeks team for modernisation of A-listed building in CA, to 24/03.
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 a call from a Northern Ireland (NI) government … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (industry) doorstep’: Planning shake-up? Industry says councils need to be adequately resourced
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Industry welcomes planning shake-up but tells government to ensure councils are adequately resourced, reports Building.
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Government on planning overhaul: ‘Bureaucratic burden’ lifted to ‘put growth at the heart of the statutory consultee system’
image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament The government has confirmed further reforms to overhaul the planning system and ‘put growth at the heart of the statutory consultee system’.
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Government: Planning and Infrastructure Bill published
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Government has published its ‘Planning and Infrastructure Bill’, saying it ‘will see significant measures introduced to speed up planning decisions’, so as the IHBC’s Consultation Group will start its response, members interested in … Continue reading
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AHF: Grants awarded to support projects by Heritage Development Trusts
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has announced new Project Viability Grants awards to support projects by two Heritage Development Trusts, Intra Community Trust and North East Scotland Preservation Trust, part of the latest grants where 9 projects across England, Scotland … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Digitally Preserving Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park, Yukon
image for illustration: Pauline Cove Hershel Island by Maedward, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The University of Calgary reports on its exploration of how digital technology can be used to preserve, protect, and mobilize knowledge about Qikiqtaruk Herchel … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Context 182 (Part 2), with some very special ‘Special features’, as Alec Clifton-Taylor and listing are re-visited
The new issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context is now out– No. 182 – with special features looking at heritage from the past and for the future, on Listing and following the inimitable Alec!
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IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: IHBC supports Gardens Trust Assembly, Cowcross St, 03/04, on ‘… the UK Planning Systems’, with 15% off for IHBC members
The IHBC is delighted to support the Gardens Trust Assembly on ‘Historic Parks and Gardens in the UK Planning Systems’, in person at Cowcross Street, London on 3 April, with a special 15% reduction for members (see dedicated code below).
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REMINDER: Join IHBC SW from everywhere (or in person at Redruth), 13 March pilot livestream & more, (from £20 online) with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Placemaking and Context’ – an ‘IHBC CPD Branch Partnership’ event for our Annual School #IHBCShrewsbury2025
Join the IHBC’s South West (SW) Branch Partnership event for special and rare CPD on design and placemaking for historic areas, with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Heritage and Design’ and ‘Placemaking in Historic Areas’, (In-Person or Online, 13/03; supported by IHBC’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Professional signpost: Second Reading of the ‘Permitted Development Rights (Extension) Bill [HL]’ (debated on Friday 7 February 2025): ‘… we get some of our flood prevention done as a result of allowing people to extend’
You can review heritage-related discussions, informed by Parliament or otherwise, in the Second Reading of the Permitted Development Rights (Extension) Bill [HL] (debated on Friday 7 February 2025, in the House of Lords, as moved by Lord Lucas (Con).
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s double-up – Designing Buildings on Conservation Wiki + Marsh Awards to 31/03
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 Designing Buildings (DB) on IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – ‘Everything you … Continue reading
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The Scottish Civic Trust welcomes new Chair Angela Bonney
The Scottish Civic Trust, the national voice for local civic and heritage groups, has appointed Angela Bonney as Chair as of the 5th of December 2024.
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Join IHBC South West Branch from everywhere (or in person at Redruth), 13 March pilot livestream & more, (from £20 online) with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Placemaking and Context’ – an ‘IHBC CPD Branch Partnership’ event for our Annual School #IHBCShrewsbury2025
Join the IHBC’s South West (SW) Branch Partnership event for special and rare CPD on design and placemaking for historic areas, with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Heritage and Design’ and ‘Placemaking in Historic Areas’, (In-Person or Online, 13/03; supported by IHBC’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s March ‘CPD Circular’: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events, awards, calls and more, with Schools, online Council (members only, 24/03), placemaking CPD (13/3) & much more
IHBC’s March CPD Circular offers our current listing of accessible, cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) opportunities for historic and built environment conservation professionals and their networks, with the usual range of Branch and network events, publications, awards and more.
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IHBC MARSH Awards – Nominations closing soon: For emerging practitioners’ skills AND Retired IHBC helping communities, ‘Just fill the form by March Thirty One’
Know any emerging professionals or practitioners who’ve shown eagerness and accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, or retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities – Nominate them for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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Join IHBC’s members-only online Council on 24 March, 1.15pm on, for Welcomes (future President, Rebecca Thompson, VPs etc.); Thanks (President Mike Brown, & volunteers), and practice-led CPD on managing London’s mixed-use historic Charterhouse estate
IHBC’s next free online Council and CPD, exclusive to all IHBC members, opens on 24 March at 1.15pm from London’s Charterhouse, offering: welcomes to our next President Rebecca Thompson; thanks to Mike Brown and others, and Charterhouse case-study insights into … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Professional signpost: Designing Buildings on International Women’s Day, 8 March, 2025, with a built-environment perspective
Using a range of resources, Designing Buildings has compiled a report on International Women’s Day with a built-environment perspective.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £9M+ of weekly works: Council seeks team for major civic building review to 07/03
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 a call from a City Council a team … Continue reading
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RTPI’s membership applications for Chartered status surge as Government growth agenda gains momentum
The RTPI has seen a 34.7% increase in Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) submissions for first assessment round in 2025, compared to the same assessment round in 2024, with this following strong growth from previous years including a 42.6% increase … Continue reading
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After Grenfell, UK government transfers fire responsibility from Home Office to MHCLG
The Prime Minister has announced that responsibility for fire will move from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the change will be effective from 1 April 2025.
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Call for Applications: Cities in Placemaking 2025-2026: To 31/03
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The Call for Applications to Cities in Placemaking(CIP) 2025-2026 programme is open till 31 March.
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Government Consultation on Rail reform: ‘a railway fit for Britain’s future’
image for illustration Government UK has outlined the next steps to reform Britain’s railways through a recently launched consultation.
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IHBC MARSH Awards – Nominations closing soon: For emerging practitioners’ skills AND Retired IHBC helping communities, ‘Just fill the form by March Thirty One’
Know any emerging professionals or practitioners who’ve shown eagerness and accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, or retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities – Nominate them for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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