IHBC NewsBlogs

A new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ‘Conservation Places and People’ was inaugurated on 10 September with the IHBC as its secretariat, chaired by Layla Moran MP, foreign affairs spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, and with vice-chairs that span both Houses of Parliament and major political parties.

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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 The IHBC Director’s pick from the HESPR News and Tender Alert email for this week features a Council’s call for professional services linked to two graveyards, closing 27/09 and valued at up to £100K+.

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As the Société Jersiaise and National Trust for Jersey joined forces to publish the first Buildings-At-Risk (BAR) Register of its kind in the Island, over the summer The Jersey Evening Post explored how former government assistant director for design and conservation Stuart Fell urged Environment Minister John Young to use the full extent of his powers under the Planning Law to prevent the loss of irreplaceable heritage assets.

image: Société Jersiaise

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The Yorkshire Post has re-posted a summertime speech by Nigel Huddleston, a Culture Minister, from when he spoke in a Commons debate on historic churches saying how, as ‘Minister for Sport, Heritage and Tourism, I am always heartened to see our historic churches and places of worship of all faiths evoke passion and commitment… churches have served as focal points for their local communities for tens, hundreds and even thousands of years.’

image: for illustration purposes only – J Theobald

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The IHBC has launched an updated webpage on our new CREATIVE Conservation Fund – a dedicated fund exclusively delivering on the IHBC’s charitable activities such as the IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Awards and the 2021 Brighton School bursaries – with new branding, background and guidance to help make this the sector’s ‘go to’ fund for anyone wanting to support conservation.

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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 and opportunities from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features Bolton Council’s plan for a £1bn Masterplan, from UK Construction Online.

…this week features Bolton Council’s plan for a £1bn Masterplan…

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Members of a conservation group said that they were ‘horrified’ by a council plan to replace lawns in the Brighton war memorial garden with a bed of wild flowers, reports the Brighton and Hove News.

image: By Hassocks5489 – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72762205

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If you have a personal development plan to complete, or a upcoming work review meeting it could be useful to see what others in similar roles to you carry out, and Issue 163 of the institute’s member journal Context, should help as Irenie McLoughlin explores the importance of the nation’s ‘Architectural Conservation Officers’ (ACOs), offering also a personal perspective on the role and how it has developed over the past 20 years, including why she has stayed in the job for 19 of them!

image: context 163, p30 Irenie McLoughlin – by Nessa Roche DCHG

…Irenie McLoughlin explores the importance of the nation’s ‘Architectural Conservation Officers’ (ACOs)… offering also a personal perspective…

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To help heritage and conservation employers and practitioners in these pandemic times, the IHBC is continuing its NewsBlog reader updates on the diverse opportunities posted on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, with posts calling for conservation skills across project management and design, including ‘Historic Building Climate Change Adaptation’, at Historic England (HE) and closing very soon.

Even in these hard times we have been advertising posts from across all the practice areas encompassed in the IHBC Areas of Competence, the model the IHBC uses to manage and assess competence in conservation practice.’

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Delegates at IHBC’s 2020 Virtual School have been updated with the delegate feedback – encouragingly positive, and made available here to NewsBlog readers – as well as current response from select panellists to questions raised by delegates, all alongside early notice of the IHBC’s commitment to the 2021 Brighton School, with dates still to be confirmed.

…delegate feedback – encouragingly positive, and made available here to NewsBlog readers…

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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 The IHBC Director’s pick from the HESPR News and Tender Alert email for this week features a call from a partnership of three Councils for strategic specialist(s) to work with the natural and built environment to pilot a model connecting the authorities’ cultural assets etc., closing 11/09 and valued at £29K.

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If you need more for your IHBC ‘Management’ and ‘Intervention’ CPD, try examining aspects of Irish conservation history in issue 163 of the institute’s member journal Context, as the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland’s (RIAI) role in the evolution of conservation is explored by lead authorities and players, John Graby and Robin Mandal.

image: Context 163, p 27 – By Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4410884

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