URBACT on small cities surviving Covid-19: ‘Without frequent sharing we would have felt more alone’
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£165M+ in repayable finance announced to support Culture Recovery Fund
£165 million is being offered to organisations including the National Theatre, Southbank Centre, English National Opera and Royal Shakespeare Company, as support in the form of major loans from the Culture Recovery Fund.
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New STBA Website
The STBA has launched its new website: https://www.stbauk.org.
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Caithness Iron Age stone tower conserved
Conservation work has been completed on an Iron Age drystone tower that was damaged by Victorian archaeologists.
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IHBC’s first CPD Circular for 2021 now out: Accessible cross-sector learning support, with career, awards and more opportunities too!
The IHBC’s first CPD Circular of 2021 has been issued, ‘providing our members and their networks with up-to-date information on continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities and information’, alongside our signposting to ‘Awards, Placements, Bursaries & Scholarships, and Calls for Papers’.
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IHBC responds to HE’s Advice Note HEAN 7 (2nd edition) on Local Heritage Listing
The IHBC has submitted its response to Historic England’s (HE’s) HEAN 7 (Historic England Advice Note 7 (Second Edition) on Local Heritage Listing: Identifying and Conserving Local Heritage, which will supersede the 2016 edition and reflect the changes made to the Planning Practice Guidance in 2019.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £198+K costed works: Scottish museum seeks PM, closing 20/01, valued £60K
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 top pick this week features a call from a Scottish museum for an experienced Project Manager (PM), closing 20/01 and valued at £60K.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Part of Imperial War Museum, Duxford, among the youngest of listed buildings
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IHBC CPD research signpost: Green Recovery from Covid-19, and alignment with Scottish Government Plans, from the SPDP
Green recovery seeks to achieve the dual aims of lifting an economy out of recession, and society out of a crisis, alongside protecting and improving the environment, according to a briefing from the Scottish Parliament Digital Publications (SPDP) which sets out what selected experts consider to be appropriate approaches to a Green Recovery from COVID-19.
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MHCLG: £830M funding boost for high streets
Funding from the Future High Streets Fund to help 72 areas in England to recover from the pandemic and deliver ambitious regeneration plans, the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has announced.
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AIA condemns executive order mandating design preference for federal architecture
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) will work with President-Elect Biden to reverse the executive order ‘Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture’, signed by President Trump.
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Developers yet to seek planning permission for 1Million+ homes already allocated in local plans– LGA research
A new Local Government Association (LGA) analysis, compiled following a survey of council heads of planning, estimates that more than a third (1,003,600) of the 2,676,200 homes allocated in current local plans in England have not even been submitted into the planning system.
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TCI: English planning reforms reduces residents’ rights to be consulted!
The Consultation Institute (TCI) has responded to the Government’s consultation on Planning for the Future in England.
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CHN on ‘2020 in Review’, as the Climate Heritage Network turns 1 year old
As the international link body Climate Heritage Network (CHN) turns 1 year old, it has reported back on 2020.
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Don’t forget: England’s Heritage Heroes nominations close 11/01
Ecclesiastical’s Heritage Heroes Awards nominations are closing on 11 January, with three award categories: ‘Heritage In Lockdown Hero’, ‘Supporting the Sector in Lockdown’, and ‘Digital Heritage Hero’.
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Art of Building finalists revealed
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has revealed the 15 finalists in its Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition.
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IHBC President launches 2021 #IHBCMarshAwards: ‘Your chance to nominate ‘retired IHBC members’ and/or ‘successful learners’ for our awards’, with new closing date – 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 a new closing date of 31 March 2021.
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Reminder: New APPG Parliamentary Inquiry into ‘21st Century Places: Values and benefits’ call for evidence closes 29 January
Westminster’s new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ‘Conservation, Places and People’ (CPP APPG), chaired by Layla Moran MP and with the IHBC as its Secretariat, has launched its first Inquiry into ‘21st Century Places – Values & Benefits‘, a wide-ranging call for evidence from all stakeholders, closing on 29 January 2021.
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Reminder: IHBC with AABC and EASA and more endorse RIBA’s 2 new professional services contracts for conservation
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has launched two brand new professional services contracts for the provision of conservation architectural services, with both also endorsed by the IHBC, the Register of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (AABC) and the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association (EASA).
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IHBC welcomes new online resource: ‘Shelf-life’, on Carnegie Library buildings in the UK’
The results of a 40-month AHRC funded project led by the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, examining Carnegie Library buildings in the UK, have been published as a resource that can inform conservation practice and standards.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Swansea nightclub tower renewal, from Walesonline
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 notices from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features an update from WalesOnline on how a rotting tower on top of a Swansea nightclub building has been renewed.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Judge quashes building permits over ‘seriously misled’ council
A High Court judge has quashed planning permission for 73 dwellings in Ash Green because a planning officer’s reports ‘seriously and materially’ misled Guildford Borough Council’s planning committee, reports The Guildford Dragon.
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Design quality of new homes across the UK remains ‘stubbornly low’ says housing study from University of Glasgow & partners
The design quality of new homes and neighbourhoods across the UK remains stubbornly low, according to an in-depth study on the issue published today by a team led by the University of Glasgow: Delivering design value: The housing design quality conundrum.
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West Dean College wins Sussex Heritage Trust Award 2020 for £5.8M roof restoration
West Dean College of Arts and Conservation has won the Sussex Heritage Trust Award 2020, for a project which provides or improves facilities for the community, including the £5.8M restoration of the College’s 126-year-old roof.
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Steps to Sustainability, NLHF’s project development support programme: Round 2 open
Starting in February 2021, ‘Steps to Sustainability’, a new National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) programme delivered by the Social Enterprise Academy, will provide a pathway to ‘help your organisation to be ambitious, forward-thinking and deliver exciting new projects’, with round 2 now open for applications.
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