Photographer Henry Do brought the world’s attention to one such suburban settlement, Brøndby Haveby or Garden City – built in 1964 to the design of ‘genius landscape architect Erik Mygind – with a series of aerial photographs posted to Instagram.
Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence ‘either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture’.-
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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
Denmark’s ‘Utopian Garden City’ built entirely in circles: See astounding aerial views of Brøndby Haveby
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Lathams, IHBC’s latest HESPR registered practice: Nearly 50 HESPR service providers working to IHBC standards
Lathams is the latest company to join the IHBC’s conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ quality assurance listing, joining the heritage businesses, offering from it East Midlands based practice services that combine architecture, planning, conservation, regeneration, and urban design.
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IHBC’s Virtual MATEs span local to global applicants, as membership accreditation takes to the airwaves
Having piloted a Virtual Membership Application Training Event (MATE) in May, the IHBC has now rolled out several dates for more, all of which have been filled within days of being advertised, and with targeted groups ranging from antipodean applicants to South East Branch members.
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IHBC asks for: ‘YOUR PROSECUTIONS DATA PLEASE’… to help us help conservation!
IHBC’s National Database of Listed Building Prosecutions – created in 1996 on the initiative of Bob Kindred, and now with details of hundreds of case sentences – is the ‘go to’ resource on local authority prosecutions, but its contents need continual updates, so IHBC members and networks are reminded that helping us populate the database helps conservation services do their job better.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: ‘Trade bodies threaten to boot members out if they can’t prove competence’
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 Building’s report on how the 2017 Grenfell disaster now means ‘Trade bodies threaten to boot members out if they can’t prove competence.’
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IHBC’s features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Salford’s green spaces protected in the courts – again
Salford City Council is celebrating after another victory in the courts to protect Salford’s green spaces.
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Mapping tool for unused construction materials launched
A mapping tool that provides contractors and their suppliers with a central database of local Materials Exchange Platform (MEP) projects to help cut waste by finding a home for unused materials has been launched.
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… Fiscal and Funding Priorities 2020 report launch by THA
The Heritage Alliance (THA) has published a new version of its key document on funding, Backing the Bedrock: Fiscal and Funding Priorities 2020.
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Climate Assembly UK publishes report on path to net zero emissions
The first UK-wide citizens’ assembly on climate change, which was commissioned by six House of Commons Select Committees, has published its final report on how the UK can reach its legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050.
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Brick Sector Stakeholder Sustainability KPI Questionnaire
UK brick industry launches survey on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify important topics for the sector.
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Sir David Adjaye OBE to receive 2021 Royal Gold Medal
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Adrian Olivier appointed as the Chair of the Historic Environment Forum
The Historic Environment Forum (HEF) has announced that Dr Adrian Olivier – former English Heritage Heritage Protection Director and Head of Profession for Archaeology – has been appointed as Chair.
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IHBC welcomes £103m recovery fund distribution to 445 heritage bodies, via £1.57B Culture Recovery Fund
IHBC Chair David McDonald has welcomed the announcement that 445 heritage organisations across the country are set to receive a lifesaving financial boost thanks to the dedicated £103M distribution from the £1.57Bn Culture Recovery Fund, helping them through the coronavirus pandemic.
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Serious about your staffing plans or career direction? Stay ahead with our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, with conservation roles from listing and HAZs to surveying, architecture and more
To help heritage and conservation employers and practitioners across the UK, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the diverse career opportunities posted on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, with recent offerings including proactive roles delivering direct benefits locally, in HAZs (Heritage Action Zones), with more regulatory roles from Historic England, as well as traditional Conservation Officer posts, so sign up for free alerts today and ‘stay ahead’ with the IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service!
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IHBC Chair highlights opportunity from TV producer looking for restoration projects
IHBC Chair David McDonald is drawing the attention of IHBC members to opportunities linked to ‘brand new TV documentary series focusing on the restoration and maintenance of historic British landmarks’.
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IHBC Member and Purcell HESPR company partner Jane Kennedy IHBC awarded OBE
The IHBC has warmly welcomed the award of an OBE in the Queens Birthday Honours list to Purcell Partner and former Chair, Jane Kennedy IHBC.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £25K costed works: Preservation Trust seeks service providers, closing 16/11
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 Preservation Trust seeking Service Providers for consultancy services, closing 16/11.
…Preservation Trust seeking …. Service Providers…
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Heritage at Risk in England Revealed
Historic England has revealed the historic sites most at risk of being lost forever as a result of neglect, decay or inappropriate development, by publishing the annual Heritage at Risk Register 2020.
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Scottish Household Survey 2019 – An Analysis from BEFS
Built Environment Scotland’s (BEFS) Policy & Strategy Manager Ailsa Macfarlane has analysed the Scottish Household Survey 2019, placing the findings in the wider policy context.
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Heritage, Health and Wellbeing report launch by THA
The Heritage Alliance (THA) has launched its report on Heritage, Health and Wellbeing’, offering a huge thank you to all those who attended and supported the event.
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‘Unusual’ WW2 sites listed and upgraded to mark 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain
An air raid shelter at a Surrey primary school, covered in murals depicting scenes from Treasure Island, Robin Hood, and Gulliver’s Travels; a pillbox cleverly disguised as a roofless cottage in Northumberland to protect the area from German invasion; a rare Chain Home radar defence tower in Essex; and a war memorial to commemorate civilians in Dorset who lost their lives have been granted protection to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, on 15 September 2020.
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RTPI Gold Medal presented to Plymouth City Council’s Paul Barnard
The RTPI has congratulated Paul Barnard MRTPI who has been presented with the RTPI’s Gold Medal during a virtual meeting of the Institute’s General Assembly.
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Liverpool’s first heritage led development plan launched
Liverpool has launched the UK’s first heritage-led development plan to help shape a multi-billion-pound regeneration programme in its historic docklands.
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Record entries to IHBC’s 2020 Gus Astley Student Awards: ‘… a great time to have the IHBC’s CREATIVE Conservation Fund up and running’!
The IHBC is delighted to announce a record number of entries for the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards for 2020, with more than 50 submissions, with entrants thanked and non-members offered free ‘taster’ Affiliate memberships, and as future awards and bursaries will be supported by the IHBC’s CREATIVE Conservation Fund, it’s ‘a great time to have the … Fund up and running!’
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If IHBC, then please forward: HE survey on work-based training in heritage construction in the North of England, closing 31/10
Historic England has recently commissioned a short research project focussed on the North of England to explore skills and training in heritage construction from firms’ own perspective, and IHBC members are asked to pass on to networks that work on traditional (pre-1919 buildings), with the survey closing 12 noon on 31 October.
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