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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: History of Architecture competition, reg. by 11/03

Posted on 26/01/2021 by IHBC

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 ArchDaily on a ‘History of Architecture’ competition, with registration closing 11 March. Continue reading →

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Victorian Bath House dug up from under a Manchester Car Park

Posted on 26/01/2021 by IHBC

A stunning Victorian Bath House has been uncovered during works on creating the city’s first public park in over 100 years.

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded eight multi-storey flats in Aberdeen category A listing status because of their outstanding architectural and historic interest.

GeoPlace has published guidance for local authority officers in England and Wales responsible for naming and renaming streets and buildings, entitled ‘The law and best practice for the re-naming of streets and buildings’.

image: GeoPlace website

Housing Minister Chris Pincher announced the joint winners of the Homeof2030 competition at an online HomesUK event.

Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has announced a £90m programme to retrofit and future-proof its historic London estate as a key component of its 2030 commitment to becoming a net zero carbon business.

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Residents have vow to stop Taylor McWilliams’s scheme to develop a site that looms over the famous Electric Avenue street market, with Victorian Society support.

Cliveden Conservation’s long-standing team member and manager of the Bath Workshop, Tom Flemons has been presented with the SPAB Gwyn Watkins Award 2020.

image: courtesy of Cliveden Conservation

Proposals are under consideration to demolish the birthplace of Charles Gavan Duffy – nationalist, Victoria Premier and possible slave trader – in the Republic of Ireland’s (RoI), Monaghan town, reports the Northern Sound.

PlaceEconomics, the US heritage economics advisory consultancy service founded by Donovan Rypkema, has identified ‘a baker’s dozen actions where preservation is not an end in itself, but a means to assist the Biden-Harris administration in reaching their stated goals’.

England’s Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has announced new laws to protect ‘for historic monuments at risk of removal’ as all historic statues, plaques and other monuments will now require full planning permission to remove’.

image: Open Government Licence v3.0

Scottish Ministers have responded to the Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) call to protect cultural heritage post-Brexit, specifying that ‘[E]nvironmental harm’ includes damage to property and impairment of, or interference with, amenities…’.

England’s Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has announced a consultation on new public rights to require councils and public sector bodies to sell unused land and assets, with comments sought by 13 March.

image: Open Government Licence v3.0

The Heritage Alliance (has launched a ‘new look’ trial bulletin and ‘will be seeking views at a later stage’ with updates and headlines including Heritage Day 2021; Policy Updates; Welcome to the Alliance, #HeritageChat and much more.

image: for illustration purposes only – Peter Badcock

The LEGO Modular Buildings Collection has a brand-new addition in 10278 Police Station – but how does it compare to the rest of the line-up?

A cross-sector partnership of lead national and international bodies – including the IHBC and the Friends of the Earth (FoE) – has signed a Joint Statement to ‘express our deep concern about the latest proposals for the expansion of Permitted Development Rights (PDR) in England’.

Some of the finest examples of brutalist architecture in the north of England are at risk of being torn down according to a photographer who believes a crucial part of the country’s architectural history could be lost in the process, writes MSN News.

The landmark Debenhams store in the centre of Guildford – due to close in the New Year – has been bought for £20 million by a London property developer, but ‘no mention of arts and community use and this is likely to frustrate many’ writes The Guildford Dragon! Continue reading →

As part of Explore Your Archive 2020, the SPAB is celebrating the work of architect William Weir and marking 70 years since his death in 1950.

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