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- IHBC’s December ‘CPD Circular’ now out: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events & resources, with Branch & National AGMs, Surgeries, CPD Partnerships & more 28/11/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 28/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ & ‘Management ‘ Signpost: DB’s ‘brief outline of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’, with terms, and amendments 28/11/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £2.4M+ of weekly works: BC seeks review of Conservation Areas, to £50K 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Two companies fined total of £190k for unauthorised Grade I listed building works following BNES council prosecution 28/11/2025
- Government consultation: ‘Reforms to the statutory consultee system’, to 13/01/2026 28/11/2025
- Gardens Trust on ‘Government Consultation on Removal of the Gardens Trust as a Statutory Consultee’ 28/11/2025
- NLHF launches Future Heritage Leadership Programme, open to 10/12, starting March 2026 28/11/2025
- As UK City of Culture 2029 opens, new ‘UK Town of Culture’ competition – to shine a spotlight on towns – opens soon too 28/11/2025
- UK Parliamentary Cttee. launches International Climate Policy Inquiry, ‘on UK climate policy and finance’, seeking evidence, to 7/01/2026 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European Heritage Excellence Day 2025 spotlights innovation, creativity and community engagement 28/11/2025
- PAS 28/11/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost from Sheehan Quirke via Open Culture: ‘How did the world get so ugly?’ 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (duplicate) doorstep’: Plans for first Iron Age broch ‘in 2000 years’ approved for Highlands 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep’: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF 25/11/2025
- ‘Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ – with ‘nature as essential to sustaining growth and a healthy society’ 25/11/2025
- HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc. 25/11/2025
- Government’s Pride in Place: Strategy update 25/11/2025
- Winners of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards announced! 25/11/2025
- Joining the dots: A single EDI portal for the sector 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome 25/11/2025
Tag Archives: planning
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Residents fears new arts centre could harm Saltaire’s WHS heritage
image for illustration: Saltaire Map – Ordnance Survey UK, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Residents of a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) village have raised fears that a new community and arts centre would put its historic character at risk, … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes 25% reduction for members at the 2024 RICS ‘Global Building Conservation Conference, online, 25/09
The IHBC is delighted to announce the special offer to members of a 25% reduction at the 2024 RICS ‘Global Building Conservation Conference’, online on Wednesday 25 September, with up to 7 Hours Formal CPD.
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IHBC Research signpost: NBS publication ‘Sustainable Futures UK Report 2024’… sustainability now a consistent priority for developers’
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The Sustainable Futures UK Report 2024 by NBS, in association with the Sustainable Energy Association and supported by bodies such as the RIBA, indicates that sustainability has become a significantly bigger focus for … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Reading) doorstep’: John Lewis Partnership plans to regenerate Reading site with new homes
image for illustration The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has submitted plans to Reading Borough Council to build new rental housing on the site of a disused town centre depot.
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Natural England: … improvements to planning service for LPAs to maximise environmental outcomes…
image: An aerial view of part of Chesil and the Fleet SSSI, which is designated for its coastal lagoon seagrass beds and vegetated shingle saltmarsh – Open Government Licence v3.0 Natural England has published a letter outlining a series of … Continue reading
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Campaign for Better Transport: Reopen rail lines across the country to improve public transport and tackle rail overcrowding
image for illustration The Campaign for Better Transport is campaigning to reopen more rail lines and stations, electrify more of the railway, and make fares fair.
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MHCLG Demolition and retrofit survey launched to inform England’s National Planning Policy: Open to 31/10
image for illustration A new survey from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) on the future of national planning policy, specifically regarding the demolition, redevelopment, and retrofit of buildings, has been launched.
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IHBC’s ‘Design and presentation’ spotlight: Neighbourhood Planning Design Coding Guidance – for ‘groups… to prepare a design code for their area’
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The ‘Neighbourhood Planning Design Coding Guidance supplements the National Model Design Code: Part 1’ is aimed at groups who wish to prepare a design code for their area.
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TCPA on ‘Health, hope and prosperity: a vision for healthy new towns’
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 ‘Health, hope and prosperity‘ is a publication from the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) that sets out the high-level preconditions necessary to create a healthy new town.
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Civic Voice poll reveals doubts among community civic leaders about planning reforms
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 As the National Planning Policy Framework consultation deadline approaches, a Civic Voice poll reveals doubts among civic leaders about Government’s ability to solve housing crisis through the latest planning reforms.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: PlaceEconomics’ White Paper ‘Response to the YIMBY… pro-development… for de-regulation to promote housing…’
image for illustration American heritage consultancy PlaceEconomics, with economist Donovan Rypkema as its Principal, has issued a data-based response to the US YIMBY movement making the case that ‘YIMBYISM is a pro-development movement that advocates for de-regulation to promote housing … Continue reading
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IHBC Policy Signpost: Parliamentary Statement by Angela Rayner Deputy Prime Minister, on ‘Building the homes we need’, from 30/07, for planning consultations
image: Open Government Licence v3.0 Parliamentary Statement on ‘Building the homes we need’ made on 30 July 2024 by Angela Rayner Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and local Government.
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New suite of HES reports ‘detail where Scotland’s heritage sector is now, and the steps needed for future success’
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has released a set of reports providing insights into Scotland’s historic environment sector, including the ‘mission-orientated’ Delivery Framework ‘Our Past, Our Future’.
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HE: A new community for local authority heritage teams
image for illustration Historic England’s (HE) ‘Local Authority Heritage Community’ is a new online learning community for those working in, or with, local authority heritage teams, to start discussions, share resources, and ask questions about planning decisions related to climate … Continue reading
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PROGRAMME LAUNCHED for IHBC London Branch Day Conference: 1 October 2024 – ‘A Walk on the Wild Side: Balancing the Built and Natural Environments’
The IHBC’s London Branch 2024 Day conference, on 1 October, looks at the conflicts that can arise between the conservation of the natural and of the historic environment and how these might be resolved in this year’s wide-ranging and celebrated … Continue reading
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Registration data reflects Building Control Profession’s commitment to high standards
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Building Control registration data indicates a growing number of professionals joining the registered ranks, reflecting the industry’s commitment to upholding high standards.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £18K of works this week: Borough calls for pre-procurement work for community project, to 06/09
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is a Borough’s call for a pre-procurement exercise on … Continue reading
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More than 95% of planners call for change to strategic planning as government consults on NPPF
The new government has made it clear that it intends to promote a more strategic approach to planning, as new research reveals overwhelming support for effective strategic planning in England across the public and private sectors.
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Major demolition project approved for Sizewell A
image: Open Government Licence v3.0 Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) has been given planning consent to demolish the turbine hall and electrical annexe at Sizewell A site.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: A view on planning in Labour, from the World Architecture Festival 6-8/24, Singapore
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Jeremy Melvin has posted a his view on the history of planning in Labour as part of the World Architecture Festival.
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IHBC Research spotlight: UCL research indicates reflective roofs are better at beating cities’ heat than ‘green’ vegetation roofs
image for illustration Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered ‘green roofs,’ street-level vegetation or solar panels, finds a new study led by University College London … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Oxford Clarion on new homes at air base
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’, and this week’s special news features The Oxford Clarion on ‘what would be Oxfordshire’s … Continue reading
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Local Plan examinations in England – ‘government’s position’: letter to the Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate (July 2024)
image: Matthew Pennycook – Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence A new letter sets out the government’s position on how planning-linked examinations should be conducted in regard to ‘pragmatism’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Unesco to probe high-rise impact on Tower of London
image for illustration: Tower of London By [Duncan] from Nottingham, UK – Tower of London from the Shard, CC BY 2.0 Historic England has said it is concerned about the encroachment of tall buildings on the Tower of London, with the … Continue reading
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CIBSE: New research ‘Retrofit Revisit’ reveals crucial lessons for future retrofits
image for illustration Published via the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers (CIBSE) co-authors Marion Baeli, and Julie Godefroy have announced the launch of ‘Retrofit Revisit’.
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