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Designing Buildings (DB) features a timely piece on ‘Architects, architecture, buildings, construction and inspiration in film’.
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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 Arch Daily’s ‘Tribute to Léon Krier’.
Continue readingThe future of a landmark seafront building in Southend, the Kursaal, has been discussed at a meeting in Parliament, reports The Echo.
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image for illustration (edited to remove person): The Glasshouse, Queens Park, Glasgow by Chris Haikney, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Total funding of £290,000 for the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) and the Glasgow City Heritage Trust (GCHT) for the next year has been approved by Glasgow City Council.
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image for illustration: Lambeth Palace Restored by Unknown, painting of 1715, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The three-year project refurbishing Lambeth Palace, launched by the Church Commissioners in summer 2022, is the first refurbishment of the Grade I listed heritage building in more than 70 years, reports the Church of England (CoE).
Continue readingA Labour former cabinet minister highlighted ‘a real danger of a Notre Dame-type inferno or something worse’ unless action is taken.
Continue readingA joint research between Banking Environment Initiative and ClimateWise examines the socioeconomic and resilience benefits of building retrofit, and proposes business case for banks, insurance companies, and the government.
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The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has responded to a report of the UK’s Energy Security and Net Zero Committee which says poorly designed retrofit schemes, a ‘skills crisis’ and costly assurance failures have significantly set back efforts to decarbonise home heating and bring down energy bills.
Continue readingProjects across Scotland will benefit from Scottish Government investment to help regenerate communities and drive economic growth.
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A RIBA Library and Collections services update, June 2025 says its ‘library is currently closed for refurbishment works as part of our House of Architecture programme’.
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As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.
Continue readingThe Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) programme – the UK’s strategy to unlock access to heritage science facilities – seeks wide-ranging input to a new short survey (15 mins) to shape the future programme.
Continue readingThe ECHOES Consultation aims to map diverse cultural heritage communities and understand their needs and expectations for the Cultural Heritage Cloud. With their contribution, we will be able to set up the Cultural Heritage Cloud with and for the communities.
Continue readingThe House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report on the ‘Condition of Government Property’ has been published, together with minutes relating to the Report on 11 June 2025.
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A new British Academy report – Measuring Social and Cultural Infrastructure – emphasises the urgent need for policymakers to recognise social and cultural spaces as essential infrastructure contributing directly to economic growth and reducing social inequalities.
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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 from an estate holding authority planning valuations of its properties, to 04/08 and valued at £173,250.
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image for illustration: Hotspur Press on Fire by Jotaht, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
On 24 June, people woke up with the tragic realisation that one of Manchester’s oldest and most symbolic buildings the Hotspur Press has been destroyed, reports Manchester Evening News.
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A five-year plan to significantly improve and enhance many of the city’s bridges, statues, monuments, and fountains has been given the green light by Hull City Council’s (CC) Cabinet, reports Hull News.
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On June 12 the European Commission and Europa Nostra announced the 2025 winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, which are co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, with 30 outstanding winners from 24 countries across the continent.
Continue readingThe National Churches Trust (NCT) is calling for input by 13 July to its survey to help politicians, the media, and the wider public better understand the challenges churches face and to highlight the vital work they do.
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image for illustration: East Mill Belper by Danielloh79, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Endangered historic, culturally significant and nature-rich places around the world have a powerful new voice in a cross-party parliamentary group as the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for UNESCO World Heritage Sites was formed this month, prompted by concerns designated sites in the UK could be dropped by the international body.
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Historic England (HE) Guidance on ‘Assessing Opportunity and Sensitivity using Historic Landscape Characterisation’ is open for consultation to 1 August, as guidance intended for all those considering, planning or responsible for large-scale change in the British landscape and seascape.
Continue readingA background report setting out the findings and recommendations for reform of the public body, Architecture and Design Scotland, following a review process by Scottish Government was published on 17 June 2025.
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Our Spring issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context – No. 183 examines ‘Wellbeing and Heritage’, highlighting how historic buildings and places trigger rich evocations, but that’s only part of a complex story being told here.
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