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- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global (and local) doorstep’: WMF Britain update on Belfast City Council’s purchase of Assembly Rooms after inclusion on the ‘2025 Watch’ 13/01/2026
- Check out IHBC’s new-style ‘CPD Circular’ & feed back: With ‘at-a-glance colour coding’, Director’s CPD Spotlight (ICOMOS-CIF 2026, Granada, 11-13/03), simpler format & more 09/01/2026
- IHBC celebrates SAHGB 2025 Annual Awards, including SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award success at HESPR member Donald Insall Associates 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 30-31 Jan 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 09/01/2026
- Designing Building enhances access to 20K+ articles, for all users as graphic links to ‘Construction Knowledge Hubs’ now aid navigation 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s Research Signpost: Heritage Open Days Festival Impact Review 2025 09/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Private Eye) doorstep’: Nooks & Corners on the ‘nation’s worsening shortage of heritage skills’ 09/01/2026
- Architectural Heritage Fund publishes Annual Review 2024/25 09/01/2026
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 09/01/2026
- CITB announces changes to funding and grants 09/01/2026
- Scottish Government scheme launched: Finding new owners for empty homes 09/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: CyArk’s Heritage Amplified Grant (Engaging New Audiences …) and Heritage Documentation Training Grant (Empowering Cultural Preservation) to 23/01 & 30/01 09/01/2026
- IHBC welcomes award of OBE to IHBC Chair David McDonald: An ‘extraordinary’ person… 02/01/2026
- IHBC Chair updates on 2026 AGM, calls for proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & booking – 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO Claudia Kenyatta CBE, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 02/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 02/01/2026
- REMINDER: Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 02/01/2026
- 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 02/01/2026
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 02/01/2026
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary conservation practice standards deliver public benefit 02/01/2026
- Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 30/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes latest engineers’ CARE guidance for assessing proposed heritage demolition/partial demolition in UK & Ireland 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 30/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with ‘A carbon case for indigenous slate’ 30/12/2025
Tag Archives: policy
IHBC’s ‘Practice’ and ‘Policy’ signpost: ‘Article 4 Directions and Heritage Protection Report Published
image for illustration: by Joanna Theobald A new report created by Avalon Planning & Heritage and commissioned by Historic England evaluates the adoption, effectiveness, and the barriers to broader implementation of Article 4 Directions and permitted development rights.
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Wales Consultation: A New Approach to Volunteering in Wales: Closing 30/05
The Welsh Government has issued a consultation survey seeking views from charities on volunteering, to 30 May.
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Hundreds of quangos to be examined for potential closure as Government takes back control
Every quango across government will be reviewed, with a view to close, merge or bring functions back into departments if its continued existence cannot be justified.
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IHBC leads in our ‘Legislation and Policy’ Signpost to DB: ‘The Planning and Infrastructure Bill’, and reactions to it…
Designing Buildings (DB) – host and partner to the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – has summarised the Planning and Infrastructure bill and reactions to it – including concerns expressed by IHBC.
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, government, heritage, infrastructure, legislation, nature, planning, policy, skills
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Bob Kindred updates on IHBC’s ‘LB Prosecutions Database’: Cases always sought – ‘…it relies on volunteered information’
New information is always sought for IHBC’s ‘LB Prosecutions Database’ so if you have been involved with a case please forward the details to Bob Kindred, who complies the list, at government@ihbc.org.uk, and who offers readers an review and update … Continue reading
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New members join Small Charities Advisory Panel to strengthen the voice of small charities
Five new members have joined the Small Charities Advisory Panel (SCAP), led by The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), strengthening its role in advocating for the needs of small charities.
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10,000 more apprentices as government slashes red tape to boost growth?
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 10,000 more apprentices are anticipated by government as it ‘slashes red tape to boost growth’, with shorter and flexible apprenticeships and ‘new English and maths requirements’ to boost skills and support employers.
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Tagged apprenticeships, economics, employment, expertise, government, planning, policy, skills, training, workforce
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State of the Nations research series: Skills Mismatches in the UK’s Creative Industries
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 A Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) State of the Nations Report has been issued on ‘Skills Mismatches in the UK’s Creative Industries’
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THA issues briefing on the English Devolution White Paper
The Heritage Alliance has issued briefing on the English Devolution White Paper, which has been supported through our Planning and Devolution Bills working group, and shared with government.
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Booking opens for IHBC’s 2025 School, #IHBCShrewsbury2025, June 12-14: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more.. for all your conservation needs… ‘in Context’
Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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Tagged awards, building, bursaries, celebration, climate change, conservation, context, cpd, education, environment, expertise, government, heritage, learning, nature, planning, policy, skills
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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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Tagged building, climate change, environment, expertise, flooding, government, housing, nature, planning, policy, skills
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Historic Houses: Rebate in UK’s Heritage Sector could unlock £7M benefit
image for illustration: Jonathan Taylor Historic Houses’ submission to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into Protecting Built Heritage included its new report on VAT and listed buildings.
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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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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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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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National Trust launches new 10-year Strategy for 2025-2035
The National Trust has launched its new 10-year Strategy for 2025-2035: ‘People and nature thriving: Our strategy to 2035’.
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Policy Lab: People-centred and participatory policymaking
Policy Lab has a history of using people-centred and participatory methods in policy to help to build evidence, understanding and empathy.
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Parliamentary Inquiry launch: Soft power – a strategy for UK success?
image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament The Foreign Affairs Committee has announced a new inquiry into the extent and effectiveness of the UK’s soft power.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global (UK Research) doorstep 2’: UKRI developing new research data policy framework
A new pan-United Kingdom Research and Innovation(UKRI) research data policy framework will maximise the value of data arising from UKRI funding and support an open research and innovation culture.
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IHBC’s ‘Policy’ Signpost: FuturHist’s ‘Policy Framework’ on European Policies for Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings
FuturHist, a project co-funded by the European Union and the UK Research and Innovation that aims to develop replicable retrofit solutions for historic buildings of the future, has produce its first report on the ‘Policy Framework: An Overview of European … Continue reading
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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.16: LGA, on ‘Almost 24,000 affordable houses lost in office-to-residential conversions’
image for illustration The Local Government Association (LGA) states that, in order ‘to deliver more housing of a decent standard, councils need the right powers, skills, resources and funding to act, and want to work with government and the development … Continue reading
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New NPPF out for England
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which sets out government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied, has been issued.
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RTPI proposes ‘Interim route map to strategic planning’
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has proposed a clear ‘route map’ to government to help Local Authorities take full advantage of strategic plans as soon as possible and to keep making local plans while they are introduced.
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Jack Sargeant MS new Welsh Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership
The Welsh Government has outlined the responsibilities of Jack Sargeant MS, the new Welsh Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership .
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