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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
Legally binding targets to help ‘build back greener’
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NI’s £800K ‘Access and Inclusion Programme’ launched
Communities Minister for Northern Ireland (NI) Carál Ní Chuilín and its Rural Minister Edwin Poots today jointly launched this year’s Access and Inclusion Programme.
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Researchers to develop online remote building inspection platform
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have received funding to develop an online platform for remote building inspection.
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UKGBC seeks input to ‘Playbooks’: To include retrofit, as it updates old, on newbuild
UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) is updating its ‘Policy Playbook’, that covers (new build) housing standards and is in the process of creating a new Playbook that covers retrofit of the existing housing stock, and informed seeks input.
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Amsterdam has been collapsing for years. Now it’s paying the price, from CNN
Amsterdam has been collapsing for years and now it’s paying the price as cracks and sinkholes are appearing alongside it’s waterways.
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Public Invited to Give Views on the Future of Scotland’s Towns: Closing 30/09
The Expert Review Group formed by the Scottish Government to undertake an appraisal of the Town Centre Action Plan published in 2013 has issued a national survey to gather the views of local communities on the future of their towns, closing 30 September 2020.
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New IHBC application support offers free ‘Virtual MATE’ sessions: General booking open – targeted group sessions to come
As in-person IHBC membership support events – our free Membership Application Training Events (MATE) sessions – were cancelled due to the pandemic, the IHBC has now opened booking for a series of online ‘Virtual MATE’ sessions geared to general practitioners, with more to come for priority groups and networks such IHBC Branches and partner bodies.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Covid-19 Community Memorial Design Competition, closing 02/11
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 a new Covid-19 Community Memorial Design Competition, from DesignClass, via ArchDaily, closing 02/11.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Turnchapel in uproar over revised bid for ‘huge shed’ at Plymouth beauty spot
A revised bid for a ‘huge shed’, an industrial unit, planned for opposite the historic terrace of homes overlooking Turnchapel Wharf and Plymouth Sound, is provoking controversial, reports PlymouthLive.
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IHBC’s Virtual CPD Boost: Looking at virtual heritage experiences? Check out the virtual tour of Frida Kahlo’s Blue House, free
If you are looking at online experiences of heritage resources, why not ‘Take a Virtual Tour of Frida Kahlo’s Blue House Free Online’.
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Irish Climate Change Plan Struck Down by Court- ‘Not enough detail’
The Irish Government has been forced to strengthen its climate mitigation plan following the Irish Supreme Court ruling in favour of campaigners indicating that a more ambitious strategy is required.
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HES survey on impact of COVID-19: Stage 3
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has moved into phase three of the Scottish Government’s route map out of current lockdown, and is looking to hear from businesses, organisations and community groups again.
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Philip Webb Award entries invited, with submissions closing 14 September
Entries are now invited for the 2020 Philip Webb Award, while the submissions will close at 5pm on 14 September 2020.
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£9.5m retrofit scheme to reduce Wales’ social housing carbon footprint
Wales has launched a new £9.5m programme to reduce the carbon footprint of existing social housing, make energy bills more manageable and provide new job opportunities.
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One in three jobs could go at the Bletchley Park Trust
One in three jobs are at risk at The Bletchley Park Trust, which oversees work to remember the contribution of British codebreakers during the Second World War.
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Membership of England’s Planning Taskforce announced
Details are available of the taskforce of experts who have offered their time and expert advice as England has developed proposals for planning reform are available.
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SAHGB shortlists for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize now out
The shortlists for two of the most important prizes in architectural history – the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize – have been revealed by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB).
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TrailTale is an app for discovering new heritage cities, towns and villages places in Great Britain
TrailTale is an app for discovering new places and interesting points in Great Britain, tied especially to heritage cities, towns and villages.
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Last chances for IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Awards 2020: Closing 31/08, £500 + free place at IHBC’s 2021 Brighton School – Just submit coursework online!
The IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award celebrates relevant coursework from ANY UK taught course – history, planning, design, enhancement and more– so just submit your coursework online for a chance to receive up to a £500 cash prize and participate in the IHBC’s next Annual School, #IHBCBrighton2021.
…submit your coursework online for a chance to receive up to a £500 cash prize and participate in the IHBC’s next Annual School, #IHBCBrighton2021.
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IHBC welcomes DBW’s industry-wide standard to make construction knowledge more discoverable
The IHBC welcomed a new industry-wide standard to make construction knowledge more accessible, launched by Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – and developed by the Construction Knowledge Task Group (CKTG).
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week: National heritage lead seeks funding scheme evaluations, closing 11/09, valued £30K
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 national heritage lead seeking a consultant for work on heritage funding schemes, closing 11/09 and valued at £30K.
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IHBC CPD boost: Over-engineered buildings nullify the green benefits, from pbctoday
Alex Hill, managing director at Whitecode Design Associates, offers insight into the smart ways to design building services to ensure they perform as designed and maintain a thermally comfortable environment for occupants, without being over-engineered, from pbctoday.
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Rights: Community: Action issues ‘pre-action’ letter warning of a Judicial Review claim on new permitted development rules
Rights: Community: Action has instructed Leigh Day Solicitors to issue a ‘pre-action’ letter warning of a Judicial Review claim in relation to the government’s new rules on permitted development rights.
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National Trust for Scotland £3.8M jobs ‘support package’
Funding of £3.8 million will help protect jobs and assist the re-opening of iconic heritage sites closed during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been announced.
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£260m funding boost for Welsh councils
Welsh ministers have announced a £260m funding boost for councils, bringing the total amount of government COVID-19 support to almost half a billion pounds.
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