Griff Rhys Jones closed the IHBC’s 2025 AGM with a short video exploring Shrewsbury, its heritage and our 2025 School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – taking the his welcome role as the public conscience for integrated community and economic heritage values.
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If you want to help the IHBC’s UK-wide built and historic environment conservation practice Branch network, have strong IT, comms & interpersonal skills, and seek flexible home-working with huge potential for engagement, travel and supporting interdisciplinary conservation, please let us know as advised below, before 18 July.
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Natural England has updated its ‘standing advice’ – general advice that Natural England, as a statutory consultee, gives to LPAs – on ‘Protected species and development: advice for local planning authorities’ on how to assess a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
Continue readingLeicester City Council has submitted a planning application to restore the deteriorating Rialto Bridge, a Grade II-listed structure dating back to the 1850s and closed to the public for over a year due to structural safety concerns, reports Business Link East Midlands.
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image for illustration: by Eirian Evans / Record office and war memorial, Llangefni Commons Wiki
An historic but dilapidated prominent Jacobean style North Wales Shire Hall building – a fire damaged 125-year-old structures , which is now a sad shadow of its former self – has gone up for sale at auction, reports The Anglesey Herald.
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The Red List of Endangered Crafts, first published in 2017 by Heritage Crafts, has been updated for 2025.
Continue readingHistoric Environment Scotland (HES) has issued a strategy consultation paper and is looking for your views on our strategy for how they identify and legally protect Scotland’s most important historic sites and places.
Continue readingThe Canal & River Trust has announced the appointment of Campbell Robb as its new chief executive.
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As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.
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To connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts, and telling your boss about our targeted subsidies for adverts, outlined below, helps your prospects too!
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IHBC’s 2025 Shrewsbury School CPD Circular offers our annual dedicated guidance on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities and resources for interdisciplinary conservation professionals at #IHBCShrewsbury2025, online or in-person.
Prof. John Edwards, IHBC Technical Panel Chair and STBA Board Member, will be on hand at the upcoming STBA Advisory Group meeting on 16 June, to deliver perspectives representing IHBC interests and concerns in the evolving policy landscape, including EPC reform, MEES and related initiatives.
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IHBC’s Director Seán O’Reilly has written to members of the Conservation Course Directors Forum (CCDF) to let them know that for 2025 we have introduced a free option for network leads and their students to attend our Virtual School on 13 June.
Continue readingGriff Rhys Jones closed the IHBC’s 2025 AGM with a short video exploring Shrewsbury, its heritage and our 2025 School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – taking the his welcome role as the public conscience for integrated community and economic heritage values.
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A new report created by Avalon Planning & Heritage and commissioned by Historic England evaluates the adoption, effectiveness, and the barriers to broader implementation of Article 4 Directions and permitted development rights.
Continue readingWiltshire Council has sought legal advice after fire engulfed a listed First World War hangar that was embroiled in a lengthy planning dispute, reports The Salisbury Journal.
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The National Churches Trust has reported how, during a Westminster Hall debate on 13 May 2025, MPs from different political parties urged the Government to fund church buildings if they want to continue to see vulnerable people helped and heritage saved.
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Clean energy projects, reservoirs, railway lines, and other major infrastructure to be built faster, under changes to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
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image for illustration: The Bell Tower, Evesham by Joanna Theobald
Coinciding with this year’s Local History Month, Historic England (HE) has launched a new Local Heritage Hub, with nearly 400 locations, offering every county, city, district, major town, and national park in England now has a dedicated digital page.
Continue readingWestminster City Council has successfully defended an appeal against enforcement action by the owner of a three-storey town house in Mayfair, who carried out unauthorised works to the Grade II listed building.
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Whether an employer, sole trader or organisation in the heritage sector, Historic Environment Scotland (HES) seeks views on skills needs and gaps, and the accessibility and appropriateness of training provision, to 30 June.
Continue readingEuropean cities are in a constant state of evolution, which is precisely why programmes like URBACT are so valuable: they identify successful urban practices, promote them, and actively support their transfer between cities across Europe.
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The IHBC is delighted to welcome as our 2025 Annual Friend of the School representing RICS Jessica Jones MA MSt FRICS IHBC, Vice-Chair (VC) of the RICS Building Conservation Advisory Group.
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The IHBC and the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) are delighted to announce the launch of the 2025 joint Heritage Research Award to celebrate ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, for research carried out from 2023 and with submissions open to 18 August 2025.
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The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is delighted to announce Berrys, as the Saturday Tour Sponsor for the Institute’s 2025 Annual School from 12-14 June 2025, in person in Shrewsbury and online.
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