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- IHBC updates members on Charter progress… IHBC Council review of draft texts due in coming weeks, details TBC 13/11/2026
- IHBC is planning for growth, with CP30 and more, so grow with us on Board, Committee, Branches, Panels or Groups and more as suits – just let us know! 13/11/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards NOW OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 13/11/2026
- IHBC Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 13/11/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD signpost: Home insulation schemes could be underestimating heat loss, new research finds 13/11/2026
- IHBC Director’s top pick from HESPR’s £68M+ works: BID seeks multidisciplinary team to study local retail areas, to 20/11 and £40K 13/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (maritime) doorstep’: Heritage Group explores cultural heritage and the historic environment within estuarine and coastal habitat restoration activities 13/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Grand Designs showcases London’s extraordinary Cloud House 13/11/2026
- ‘True scale of heritage’s role in Welsh jobs, economy and communities’ – 18000 Jobs + £738Mn 13/11/2026
- Historic England Reveals its Heritage at Risk Register 2026 13/11/2026
- The Reuse Policy Playbook: A Retrofit-First Guide for Local Authorities 13/11/2026
- HBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: The roles of heritage when the world changes, from ICOMOS GA2026, Malaysia 13/11/2026
- 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
Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission: MHCLG response to the ‘Living with Beauty’ report, with foreword by Jenrick’s
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Funding boost for Northern Ireland’s churches and chapels
Church and chapel buildings in Northern Ireland are to benefit from £250,000 of funding thanks to a grant awarded to the National Churches Trust from the Department for Communities.
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MHCLG: All new developments must meet local standards of beauty, quality and design under new rules
Plans outlined by England’s Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) aim to make sure that new developments are ‘beautiful and well-designed’, following a ‘local design code’ and with a ‘New ‘Office for Place’… to help communities turn these designs into a local standard for all new developments’.
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Historic Royal Palaces seeks trustee with buildings conservation/sites expertise, on IHBC’s Jobs etc. service, closing 25/02
Historic Royal Palaces (HRP), via the Cabinet Office, seeks a trustee with ‘expertise and experience in historic buildings conservation and/or developing the potential of heritage sites’, closing 25 February, and featured also on the IHBC’s Jobs etc. service.
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CLIMATE HERITAGE NETWORK: ‘February 2021 eNews’ now out
The Climate Heritage Network (CHN), the international network of which the IHBC is a member, has issued it February 2021 eNews, which offers updates on ‘news from the global effort to mobilise arts, culture & heritage for climate action’.
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WeCanAccess Student Challenge: Enhance accessibility in 1000 words, by 1 March
WeCanAccess is calling on students to devise suggestions on how to make their own subject area or future profession more accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities; who are neurodiverse or have other access needs, in an essay competition with a closing date of 1 March. Continue reading
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IHBC’s new CPD Circular now out: Accessible cross-sector learning support, with career, awards and more, so sign up or submit events for free!
The IHBC’s regular CPD Circular is out, offering ‘members and their networks… up-to-date information on continuing professional development (CPD)’, free to non-members and with free events postings too!
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REMINDER: 2021 #IHBCMarshAwards: ‘Your chance to nominate ‘retired IHBC members’ and/or ‘successful learners’ for our awards’, extended closing date of 31 March
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Christian Trust, has launched the two 2021 Awards – for civic contributions by retired members, and for successful learning in heritage skills – with prizes that include £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s Brighton 2021 Annual School, and with an extended closing date of 31 March 2021.
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IHBC research signpost: Savills on ‘Sustainability’
Savills agency has issued a summary of its new research linked to sustainability.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: LA times & Dezeen on Frank Gehry’s LA River upgrade… and atonement?
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 the LA Times’ on Frank Gehry’s plans for ‘an urban cultural park like no other’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Fight the Tower campaign announces first victory as Mayor reconsiders Hondo Tower
Brixton Buzz reports on the GLA’s Head of Development has quashed the Mayor’s decision to allow Lambeth Council’s controversial grant of planning permission for the local Taylor Tower go ahead, on the grounds that Lambeth Council did not provide the Mayor with all the objections received.
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Historic England Annual Report and Accounts 2019-2020 published
The 2019-2020 Annual Report and Accounts for Historic England, as laid before Parliament on 17 December, have been published.
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Communities must be empowered to reimagine their neighbourhoods post-Covid, says RTPI Scotland
RTPI Scotland is calling on the Scottish government to provide support for communities to help them shape where they live in the wake of Covid-19.
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The 2020-21 RSA Student Design Awards competition is officially open for entries
The 2020-21 RSA Student Design Awards competition – with prizes that include over £22,000 in cash and paid industry placements – is officially open for entries with a final deadline on 10 March 2021.
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Revitalising the River Clyde – Funded projects will create green jobs and benefit communities
A scheme to expand and transform one of Scotland’s busiest arts venues into a greener, year-round cultural destination is among the projects being supported by the Clyde Mission Fund.
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New use for abandoned oil rigs: Become offshore reefs!
As offshore oil and gas platforms come to the end of their working lives, one way in which these old rigs can be remarkably useful is that the subsurface rig can provide the ideal skeleton for coral reefs, allowing the remarkable ecosystems beneath the waves come into their own.
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Serious about your staffing plans or career direction? Stay ahead with ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’: Interdisciplinary roles from PM to advice, across public, private and third sectors, and much more!
To help employers and practitioners the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the diverse career opportunities advertised on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, and recent posts include roles from project management (PM) & local conservation services to ‘archaeology and heritage’ in infrastructure and more, so sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service!
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Need the right guidance on alterations? See the IHBC’s new ToolBox ‘Guidance Note’ on Alterations to Listed Buildings
The IHBC’s Toolbox Guidance Note, on ‘Alterations to Listed Buildings’, was developed with UK-wide consultation and is now available for reference and feedback.
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IHBC research signpost: ‘The Slave Trade and the British Empire: an audit of commemoration in Wales’
The Welsh Government has reported on the recent publication of ‘The Slave Trade and the British Empire: An Audit of Commemoration in Wales’.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £25K+ costed works: BC seeks contractor for Cultural Strategy, valued £10K-25K
The 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 Borough Council (BC) for a contractor to develop a Cultural Strategy to 2030, valued at £10K-£25K.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Historic co-operative building in north Manchester to be demolished
The former Failsworth Industrial Society building on Oldham Road in north Manchester has been branded ‘dangerous’ by building inspectors and is to be demolished, writes the Manchester Evening News.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Dangerous eyesore Birnbeck Pier has been sold – to its current owner
Current owner Wahid Samady was ordered to find a new buyer for the pier by the High Court. Weston-super-Mare’s dilapidated Birnbeck Pier has been sold – to its current owner.
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Health on the High Street publication indicates an uncertain future
UK high streets are facing an uncertain future and a new paper from the Social Market Foundation calls for a reimagining of our high streets and urban spaces – with public service provision at their centre.
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Brick Sustainability Report 2020 claims unrivalled longevity
With bricks created using abundant natural materials, sourced locally and through a domestic supply chain, the UK brickmaking sector is an example of sustainable industry, The Brick Development Association argues.
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Website for England’s Historic Environment Forum now live
England’s Historic Environment Forum has launched its new website, a project is supported by Historic England and sits within The Heritage Alliance.
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