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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’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: ArchDaily on ‘Women Architects in Post-Colonial South Asia’
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (at risk) doorstep’: Planning consent ‘green light’ marks new chapter for Rochdale estate
A recent meeting at Rochdale Council unanimously approved a full planning application to transition the local Hopwood Hall Estate back into use after three decades of being vacant, writes Rochdale Online.
image: Historic England Archive – List Entry 1068466
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Report on Civic Societies and the Planning Process: Reading University’s Henley Business School via Civic Voice
A report from the Henley Business School (University of Reading) Department of Real Estate and Planning and administered by Civic Voice – Civic Societies and the Planning Process – explores the role of local civic societies in the English planning system.
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York Civic Trust awarded £250k Lottery Fund grant for York Trailblazers
York Civic Trust, working in partnership with Make it York and partners across the city, has been awarded £249,999 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) to deliver the York Trailblazers project.
image: for illustration only – by DACP, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Property leader David Partridge to oversee development of UK’s first Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard
The Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard initiative has appointed Related Argent’s Chairman David Partridge as Chair of its recently convened Governance Board.
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Scotland’s older buildings have vital role to play in meeting net zero targets
An architect involved in a project to transform a pre-1919 Glasgow tenement into an energy efficient building says the work may lead to a more ‘streamlined approach’ in policy to help Scotland achieve its net zero ambitions.
image: for illustration only – Thomas Nugent / Dudley Drive, Commons Wikimedia
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Public Practice: Expands north with largest cohort of placements with local government
Record intake of placemaking professionals comes after local authorities receive £8bn from Levelling Up Fund and Towns Fund, but say attracting skilled staff is their largest recruitment issue.
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Social value benchmarking report published in partnership with SCAPE
The ‘Social Value Benchmarking Study’, has been published which evaluated the reported outcomes from a sample of over 1,400 projects from the construction sector completed over the past seven years and ranging in size from around £10,000 to over £1.4 billion.
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Former lighthouse with connections to RL Stevenson for sale
A former lighthouse building with a historic connection to author Robert Louis Stevenson has gone up for sale for £149,000.
image: By Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0 Continue reading
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Don’t forget the IHBC’s (FREE, if sometimes forgotten) jewels in #IHBC25: No.1 – The IHBC’s ToolBox
[slideshow_deploy id=’34803′]The IHBC is marking our 25th anniversary across this subscription year, from April 2022 to March 2023, and as part of looking back – and forward – we’re celebrating some of the free IHBC ‘jewels’ that help members and the wider sector contribute to our charitable objects – supporting built and historic environment conservation across the UK and beyond – starting with this first feature: our Toolbox.
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IHBC Signpost: CHN’s dedicated web resource for ‘Culture at COP27’, from 6/11
Climate Heritage Network (CHN) has produced a ‘Culture at COP27’ dedicated web page.
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IHBC Signpost: HE’s Heritage Sector Carbon Net Zero Survey, ends 4/12
Historic England (HE) has issued a short survey for heritage organisations with heritage sites or offering heritage services, to inform future support on Carbon Net Zero planning, closing 4 December.
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £416K+ costed works: City Council seeks engagement etc. support for heritage site, closes 09/11, up to £240K
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 is a call from a City Council for engagement etc. services for a heritage site, closing 9/11, valued £192K- £240K. Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (community) doorstep’: Save Waterloo’s Paradise from Lambeth’s ‘largest single office proposal’
The mediaeval tranquillity of South London’s oldest gardens in central London are threatened by a cluster of 6 new tall buildings opposite Big Ben, say opponents who have launched the campaign to ‘Save Waterloo’s Paradise’.
image: savewaterlooparadise.com
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DLUHC Digital: Introducing the planning data platform
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AHRC: Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition, closes 30/11
The AHRC has announced that the Design Exchange Partnerships: design the green transition – UKRI Round 1 call is now open to applications, and closing on 30 November 2022.
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Construction industry urged to ‘embrace’ new Scottish Construction Accord
The construction industry must ‘embrace’ the new Scottish Construction Accord in order to make it effective, the Construction Industry Collective Voice (CICV) has said.
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Industry bodies unite to ‘shift digital focus’ towards maintenance
Select built environment bodies have joined forces to align the data standards to manage costing, carbon and building and facilities maintenance in a bid to shift the digital focus from new build to whole life building performance.
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Scoping culture and heritage capital report published by DCMS
A report scoping has been issued on how the value of arts, culture and heritage can be articulated and measured based on The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS’s) Culture and Heritage Capital approach.
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Cities require urgent rethink, study says if country is to meet 2050 net zero targets: Streets of the Future
Britain’s cities require urgent transformation, including more green spaces and public transport, if the country is to meet its 2050 net zero targets, a new study says.
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C20 launches Leisure Centres campaign
The Twentieth Century Society (C20) is launching a new nationwide campaign to celebrate the architecture of the leisure centre and to protect the most historic examples.
image: for illustration only – Coventry Sports Centre, Historic England
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Heritage worker crashes accidentally into protected ancient toilet
A man whose job it is to help preserve Japan’s cultural heritage has accidentally smashed his car into the country’s oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple.
image: for illustration only Tofukuji, Kyoto – Photo by PlusMinus, CC BY-SA 3.0
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IHBC’s new CPD Circular now out: Resources, news (IHBC’s new Ed etc. officer), awards and more, supporting #IHBC25
The IHBC’s newest CPD Circular collation of resources and more is now out, ‘designed to digest a great deal of information into a concise, no-frills format made accessible for busy heritage professionals.’
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REMINDER: #IHBC25 – 25 years since we turned professional – with ideas still invited
The IHBC’s current subscription year – April 2022 to March 2023 – sees us marking a quarter of a century since our incorporation as a professional body, with a web hub with funding links for volunteers and Branches, as we’re doing all we can to build our programme from the ground up!
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IHBC Signpost: Historic Royal Palaces explores ‘Black History at the Palaces’
From royal musicians at the Tudor court to an enslaved African at the Tower of London, Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) explore stories of Black history at our palaces.
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