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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 pick from £500K+ costed works: Call for Landscape Character Assessment, closing 06/04, valued up to £25K
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Golden Lane RA supports ‘Reform the planning… in the City Of London’ petition
The Golden Lane Estate Residents’ Association (RA) is one of the sponsors of a major petition that has just been launched to seek reform of the planning process in the City of London.
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Over 50,000 households in England & Scotland get green upgrades in £562M boost
A nationwide home upgrade across England and Scotland will help households save up to £450 a year on their energy bills, and support around 8,000 green jobs annually, government has announced.
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HCLG Parliamentary Committee launches inquiry into permitted development rights: Call closes 30/04
The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee has launched a new inquiry to examine the Government’s approach to permitted development rights, with the call for evidence closing on 30 April.
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Scotland’s Housing Minister calls for action on renovation VAT to help green recovery
Scotland’s Housing Minister Kevin Stewart has written to the UK Treasury minister Jesse Norman to urge a rethink on VAT rates for building refurbishments and renovations, highlighting the disincentives to improvements making buildings more energy efficient, and the need for a level VAT ‘playing field’ with new homes.
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Pevsner ‘Buildings of…’ County Durham online launch etc.: 31/03 @ 6.PM, with questions and reduced rates too (Booking Essential)!
The Pevsner series’ latest revision – Martin Roberts’s County Durham – will launch with an online conversation and time for questions on 31/03, 6pm, with a ‘£10 off’ purchase code on offer (Booking essential).
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Glasgow CC seeks Scottish Government partnership to repair city’s pre-1919 tenements
Glasgow City Council (CC) is seeking a deal with the Scottish Government to fund run-down pre-1919 tenements in the city.
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FoE Campaigners call for ‘emergency plan on green jobs for young people’ and £10.6BN investment in ‘green apprenticeships’
Friends of the Earth(FoE) has published a new report, by Transition Economics and entitled ‘An emergency plan on green jobs for young people – why and how?’ which argues for up to £10.6bn of Government funding to go towards wage training etc. to deliver green apprenticeships.
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AHF on ‘Transforming Places through Heritage’ – report on the first year of grant-making
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has issued a report on the first year of its ‘Transforming Places Through Heritage’ grants programme, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, aimed at supporting bodies saving historic buildings in high streets and in town centres.
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Scottish House Condition Survey: Local Authority Analysis 2017-2019
Scottish House Condition Survey Local Authority figures for 2017-2019 have been published, including fuel poverty rates, energy efficiency ratings, the condition of housing and the Scottish Housing Quality Standard.
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IHBC’s IMHO Signpost: Stephen Hill and TCI on ‘Changes by stealth – how much do you love your High Street?
The Consultation Institute’s legal and parliamentary officer Stephen Hill explores ‘one of the big concerns held by campaigners and concerned citizens… that changes introduced ‘temporarily’ during the pandemic might be carried over after the return to normality without any consultation.’
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Last chance approaches for IHBC’s Marsh Award nominations: Celebrating the achievements of active and civic ‘retired IHBC members’
The closing date approaches for the IHBC’s Marsh Award for community contributions by retired members of the IHBC, with a prize that includes £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s Brighton 2021 Annual School, and with nominations closing on 31 March.
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IHBC’s ‘members only’ first Council and General Meeting of 2021: Free, 26 March, 1pm on – Booking closes soon
The IHBC is issuing exclusive invitations and formal notices to IHBC members of ALL categories to the first Council meeting of 2021, from 1pm 26 March (online), starting with a formal General Meeting vote to support virtual meetings, and with eligible members strongly encouraged to use proxy votes to help the IHBC ‘move past the pandemic’!
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Dezeen on architecture students and the climate crisis’
The 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’, with news from across the development sector, and this week features Dezeen on how ‘UK Architecture students feel unprepared to tackle the climate crisis’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: London council estate demolition – with family still living inside – sparks protest
The Hackney Post has reported on how almost 80 people took to the streets of Hackney to protest against the demolition of Marian Court while a family is living on the premises.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: £538,000 plans to save historic Captain Cook pub in Middlesbrough
Proposals have been made for emergency works to protect Middlesbrough’s oldest standing but ‘knackered’ pub from collapsing, writes The Northern Echo.
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Wales’ Town Centres benefit from £15.2 million placemaking fund
Deputy Minister for Housing and Local Government, Hannah Blythyn, on 4 March 2021 announced a £15.2 million ‘placemaking’ funding package to help Wales’s town centres ‘build back better’. Continue reading
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England’s Levelling Up Fund Prospectus, viewed from the LGC
As the government has published the long-awaited prospectus for the Levelling Up Fund, the Local Government Chronicle (LGC) offers its analysis. Continue reading
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Quality of Life Framework (QOLF) launched to address changes to ensure homes provide a better quality of life for everyone
The Quality of Life Foundation (QOLF) has launched a framework that seeks to address the changes that the development industry can make to make sure that homes are ‘acquired, planned, constructed and managed to actively provide a better quality of life for everyone’.
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CPRE’s State of the Green Belt 2021 report published
The 2021 edition is now out of the regular report from CPRE (The Countryside Charity) looking at the threats to the Green Belt.
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England’s Towns Fund recipients announced for March
A list of 45 of the 101 Towns Fund areas that have had their funding confirmed at part of Budget, announced by the Chancellor on Wednesday 3 March 2021, with funding equating to £1.02 billion in total.
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BDA launches Brickmakers Quality Charter
The Brick Developers Association (BDA) launched the Brickmakers Quality Charter on 1 March, which can be applied for by any Clay Brick, Paver or Tile Manufacturer.
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IHBC features Heritage from the (European) doorstep: ‘Star Cities’, marvels of Renaissance engineering
Europe’s star cities are scattered all over Europe but their perfect geometrical beauty can only be fully admired when seen from above, as featured by US news network CNN.
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New England LA conservation jobs update for 2020! ‘IHBC Toolbox’ Research Note on ‘Market Intelligence’ data from IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service
IHBC’s first Research Note for 2021 has been posted on the IHBC’s ToolBox, with our regular update of ‘Market Intelligence’ on England’s local authority (LA) conservation-related jobs from our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service.
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IHBC’s ‘members only’ first Council and General Meeting of 2021: Free, 26 March, 1pm on – Booking closes soon
The IHBC is issuing exclusive invitations and formal notices to IHBC members of ALL categories to the first Council meeting of 2021, from 1pm 26 March, starting with a formal General Meeting vote to support virtual meetings, and with eligible members strongly encouraged to use proxy votes to help the IHBC ‘move past the pandemic’!
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