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- IHBC’s newest ‘Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’: National updates for volunteer leads includes notice on ‘Online Branch Connection Event’, 22 /01 16/01/2026
- IHBC responds to MHCLG consultation on ‘Reforms to the statutory consultee system’, highlighting the ‘serious threat to heritage conservation’ they represent 16/01/2026
- 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 16/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 30-31 Jan 16/01/2026
- IHBC celebrates SAHGB 2025 Annual Awards, including SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award success at HESPR member Donald Insall Associates 16/01/2026
- IHBC’s Research Signpost: ‘Who stays and who leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and heritage Careers’ from the PEC 16/01/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £14K+ of weekly works: English Council seeks architectural adviser for GII LB, to 30/01 & £14.4K 16/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (CBBC) doorstep’: ‘Newcastle’s Bird poo bridge –Nine TONNES of mess removed from historic landmark’ 16/01/2026
- New Corporate Strategy from Natural England 16/01/2026
- New Newsletter from TCPA on Healthy Homes 16/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Global & Spooky) doorstep’: Historic Ghosts house gains digital protection, as engineers create 3D model of West Horsley Place 16/01/2026
- IHBC’s 2026 AGM concludes successfully: All nominations ratified resolutions adopted, including talks, thanks, Charter progress, elections, congratulations and more 13/01/2026
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Bob Kindred’s ‘Periodically’ – bite-sized & from the best 13/01/2026
- 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 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 13/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 30-31 Jan 13/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: A Practical Guide to Using AI for Smaller Construction Firms 13/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Concerns Southend’s Kursaal building ‘exposed to the elements’ and falling into disrepair 13/01/2026
- New strategy for Scotland’s protected historic places 13/01/2026
- Historic and Botanic Garden (HBG) Training Programme opportunities – early notice for March 2026 13/01/2026
- New Skills Relay to inspire the next generation of construction and housing talent 13/01/2026
- Scotland’s first-ever canal and traditional skills centre considered by councillors 13/01/2026
- 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
Tag Archives: environment
HE: 30 New Projects Explore England’s Rural and Coastal?Working-Class Heritage
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Historic England has announced 30 new projects exploring England’s rural and coastal working-class heritage.
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Action taken to protect households with poor-quality insulation
The government has taken immediate action after checks found widespread cases of poor-quality solid wall insulation installed under inherited ECO4 and GBIS.
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New strategy for Scotland’s local civic and heritage groups: SCT on ‘… Places, People, and their Stories’
The Scottish Civic Trust, the national voice for local civic and heritage groups, on 3 February 2025 launched their new strategy Scotland’s Places, People, and their Stories.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: STBA on CALECHE – Circular Innovation for Historic Buildings
image for illustration As a project partner, the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA) is working with European experts in the CALECHE Project, developing sustainable solutions for historic building conservation.
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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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IHBC’s ‘members-only’ invitation to our next Council, 24/03, online from 1.15pm, includes ‘The London Charterhouse – A Case Study in Heritage Estate Management’ and much more
All our members have been sent invitations to the next IHBC CPD-led Council, with new business, and learning that includes London Charterhouse Director of Estates & Conservation, Aimée Felton on ‘The London Charterhouse – A Case Study in Heritage Estate … Continue reading
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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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