Last chance approaches for IHBC’s Marsh Awards: Your chance to nominate  ‘successful learners’ – closing 31 March

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

The closing date approaches for the IHBC’s Marsh Award for ‘successful learning in heritage skills’, 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 HESPR pick from £270K+ costed works: Call for ‘Covid Memorial’ support, closing 19/03, valued £10K-20K

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

logoThe IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick features a call for support on a Covid Memorial artistic engagement process, closing 19 March and valued at £10K-20K.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Investigation after important feature of historic Keighley mill is destroyed

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

An investigation has begun after an important part of a historically significant local mill site was destroyed, the The Telegraph and Argus has reported.

image: Chris Allen / Low Mill, Keighley – CC BY-SA 2.0 Commons Wikimedia

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Kaiser Chiefs frontman altered Falmouth home without PP

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

Rock star Ricky Wilson made changes to his Grade II-listed home in Cornwall without planning permission (PP), including the installation of a secret shelving door to the library, reports Cornwall Live.

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Defra consultation on ‘5 legally binding environmental principles… to protect the environment’

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reports that Ministers will put protecting the environment at the heart of future policy, with a consultation on new plans for a five legally binding principles will guide future policymaking.

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Women in Planning launches mentoring scheme

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

Women in Planning – which leads change in the planning and built environment industry by making women visible, promoting diversity and inclusion, and supporting career development – has launched a new mentoring scheme.

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HEF-HE Heritage Recovery Plan launched

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

England’s Historic Environment Forum (HEF) with Historic England (HE) has compiled a Heritage Recovery Plan looking forward to the period from April 2021 as the latest national lockdown comes to an end.

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£40m (2nd) round of Green Recovery Challenge Fund opens: key dates from 22/03

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

Environmental charities and partners across England to benefit from fund which will create and retain jobs while restoring nature and tackling climate change, with a deadline for applications under £250k of 14 April, and for over 250k, expressions of interest are due by 22 March.

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NAO: LAs seriously underfunded and face budget cuts after Covid-19

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

A new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) finds that while effective action from government has assisted local authorities (LAs) in surviving financially during the COVID-19 pandemic, many face significant funding gaps.

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Kate Winslet hopeful Banksy art can transform Reading Prison

Posted on 19/03/2021 by IHBC

Kate Winslet said it was ‘incredible’ Banksy had chosen Reading Prison for his latest piece as she joined calls to turn the old jail into an arts venue, as the Oscar-winning actress supports a theatre group hoping to stop the site being knocked down for housing.

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IHBC’s General Meeting 26 March, 1pm: Eligible members called on to use advance proxy votes even if attending

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

Eligible members of the IHBC are strongly encouraged to use proxy votes for the Special Resolution at the forthcoming General Meeting (GM) on 26 March, and help the IHBC ‘move past the pandemic’, while keeping up the discussions and the costs down!

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IHBC’s ‘members only’ first Council and General Meeting of 2021: Free, 26 March, 1pm on

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

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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IHBC welcomes COTAC’s new built heritage resources: Insight 1 – The Need to Appreciate the Built Heritage… Learning Handbooks

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

The IHBC has welcomed the new series of updated online publications on built heritage from the Council on Training in Architectural Conservation (COTAC), starting with COTAC Insight 1: The Need to Appreciate the Built Heritage Units 1-6 Learning Handbooks.

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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Competition call for ‘City Benches 2021’

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

logoThe 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 London Festival of Architecture on its Competition call for ‘City Benches 2021’.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Council accused of ‘one-sided spin’ over Edinburgh’s Spaces for People consultation

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

edinburgh viewCampaign groups have accused council chiefs of ‘one-sided spin’ in a consultation on whether to make its controversial ‘Spaces for People schemes permanent, according to The Edinburgh Evening News.

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Launch of ‘Future Wales: The National Plan 2040’

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

Housing and local government minister Julie James has launched the national spatial strategy in a 180-page document called ‘Future Wales’, as a ‘new kind of development plan’.

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CoE should use own land to help deliver affordable homes – ‘Coming Home’ report recommends

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

The Church of England (CoE) should examine how its 6,000 acres of ‘strategic land’ could be used to deliver more affordable housing, a new report of the Commission of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on Housing Church and Community ‘Coming Home’ has recommended.

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CPRE: Pressure on Green Belts quadruples – just when we need green spaces

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

The latest edition of the regular report from CPRE – formerly known as the Campaign to Protect Rural England – on the Green Belt, shows that pressures that put it at risk have quadrupled since 2013, just as a new poll shows how much these local treasures are valued.

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Two new UK culture directors appointed to the UK National Commission for UNESCO

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

Two new UK culture directors have been appointed to the UK National Commission for UNESCO, as Dr Charlotte Joy and Kate Pugh OBE join the Commission for a three year term from March 2021.

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NLHF: The search is on for the 2021 Sustainable Project of the Year

Posted on 16/03/2021 by IHBC

The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) is sponsoring a sustainability award for the second year at the 2021 Museums + Heritage Awards, noting that at a time of ecological emergency, the heritage sector can play its part in reducing carbon emissions and tackling climate change.

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IHBC’s General Meeting 26 March, 1pm: Eligible members called on to use advance proxy votes even if attending

Posted on 12/03/2021 by IHBC

Eligible members of the IHBC are strongly encouraged to use proxy votes for the Special Resolution at the forthcoming General Meeting (GM) on 26 March, and help the IHBC ‘move past the pandemic’, while keeping up the discussions and the costs down!

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IHBC 2021 School Heritage MarketPlace #IHBCMarketPlace stallholder Stone Specialist publisher ‘offers free access during the pandemic’…..

Posted on 12/03/2021 by IHBC

The IHBC’s 2021 Brighton School Heritage MarketPlace stallholder responsible for the Natural Stone Specialist is offering free access during the Covid-19 pandemic, with current feature contents including Wentworth Woodhouse.

 

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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £250K+ costed works: English councils seek town centre consultation programme lead, closing 24/03

Posted on 12/03/2021 by IHBC

logoThe IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick features a call from an English Council partnership for a programme of consultation on town centre options, closing 24 March.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Crowdfunder launched after Hulme Hippodrome pulled out of auction

Posted on 12/03/2021 by IHBC

The group of Greater Manchester locals who have been battling to save the Hulme Hippodrome have launched a Crowdfunding campaign to protect the historic venue, as The Manchester Evening News reports.

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Palace of Westminster ‘deteriorating faster than it can be fixed’

Posted on 12/03/2021 by IHBC

The restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster is of ‘paramount importance’ though the cost of maintenance continues to rise and the building is ‘now deteriorating faster than it can be fixed’, according to the recent strategic review.

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