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- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s CPD Blog from #IHBCShrewsbury2025: Some ‘Academic Reflections on the IHBC Annual School… and participation’ from Dr Alison McCandlish IHBC, University of Glasgow 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: Free entry to Listed Property Show, Malvern, 10-11/10… just email Charlie, or bring your IHBC business card! 07/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost ‘The Big Think’ UK Heritage Pulse update – Sector-wide collaboration and relevance 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost looks back: Why Foxglove and Global Action Plan are opposing the Woodlands data centre 07/10/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: BD on regen in Newcastle – UK Design Capital of the Year & IHBC 2026 School Venue 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Victorian engine found in attic of former Scots jail ‘one of three in world’ 07/10/2025
- 2024 ICOMOS Annual Report now available 07/10/2025
- C20 welcomes listing of Sir David Chipperfield’s first UK building (1987-89), 1 Cobham Mews Studios in Camden 07/10/2025
- From the Carbon Trust’s Insight Series: New draft Net Zero Standard version 2.0, and ‘What it means for corporates’ 07/10/2025
- Adults’ People and Nature Survey Results Released 07/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Climate Heritage Network ‘Refresher on the Global Call to Put Culture at the heart of Climate Action’ 07/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s October ‘CPD Circular’: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events & resources, with Branch events, CPD Partnerships, Lime, Lutyens & more 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: Free entry to Listed Property Show, Malvern, 10-11/10… just email Charlie, or bring your IHBC business card! 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories) 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s Professional Signpost: Historic Rochester Grade II listed bridge undergoes detailed principal inspection 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £87.5K+ weekly works: Social landlord seeks affordable housing services, to 10/10, £84K 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Decision on plan for Glasgow’s iconic Barrowlands sign 03/10/2025
- Housing Secretary issues ‘call to arms’ to ‘build, baby, build’ 03/10/2025
- Parliamentary Inquiry: ‘The Environment in Focus’, open to suggestions to 10 Oct 03/10/2025
- Surge in 18–25-year-old new members as National Trust annual report reveals growth of 39% 03/10/2025
- Edinburgh’s Cockburn Association welcomes new Director, Rowan Brown 03/10/2025
Belfast City – Belfast Bank Buildings fire
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‘Collaborative Centre for Cultural Value’ – funding from AHRC & more
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced that funding is to be made available to establish a collaborative Centre for Cultural Value, to advance understanding of the value of arts and culture in the UK and abroad, looking at the wider impacts of arts and culture can bring.
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Nominations open for Ecclesiastical’s Heritage Heroes Award: Closing 30 Sept
Ecclesiastical’s Heritage Heroes Award for 2018 is now open to nominations that mark ‘significant achievement in the heritage sector’ or ‘outstanding individual contribution to heritage over a period of years’, with nominations closing on 30 September.
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IHBC’s 2018 Member survey: Feedback, update and forward plans for ‘CP25’
On 12 April 2018 IHBC trustees reviewed the resoundingly positive results from the most recent Member Survey – with headline endorsements including 92% of members satisfied or very satisfied with services, and 94% likely or very likely to recommend IHBC membership – and agreed both the strategy for the IHBC’s next Corporate Plan ‘CP25’ and forward plans to ensure that the IHBC remains fit for purpose as ‘The home of the conservation professional’.
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IHBC’s ‘IMHO’ signpost: Barbara Res (the woman behind Trump Tower!) on ‘Why are women in construction leaving their hard won jobs?’
Construction Matters has featured a blog by Barbara Res, the woman behind Trump Tower, as she explains why women in the U.S. are turning their backs on construction, and what the industry can do to buck this alarming trend.
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Community Heritage Scotland project: ‘On community engagement’
Community Heritage Scotland is a new project which aims to explore the ways in which people work and engage with heritage in their communities, while also aiming to bring about positive change in a sector which is not without its challenges.
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HE issues new guidance brochure on technical conservation
Historic England (HE) has issued a new technical conservation guidance brochure, which can downloaded free.
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HE and HE on the North East – Time capsules and listing uplifts for triple roundabouts and Tyne Bridge
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ghways England (HE) and Historic England (HE) report on two linked items of heritage news in the North East of England, as the listing of 
Tyne Bridge in Newcastle has been upgraded to Grade II*, while the North East’s first triple-decker roundabout (on the A19) has been marked by the placing of a time capsule highlighting 2018 life.
Tyne Bridge by Tellyaddict at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4740404
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MHCLG Social Housing Green Paper: comments sought by 6 November
England’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has begun consultation on a social housing green paper (with comments on the five core themes sought 6 November 2018).
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London launches plan to become ‘world’s most walkable city’
London plans to become the ‘world’s most walkable city’ under a new plan unveiled by the capital’s first-ever walking and cycling commissioner, with its ‘Walking Action Plan – which is being supported by Public Health England – aiming to encourage a million additional walking trips each day by 2024.
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AHF funding for Glasgow communities to ‘reclaim and regenerate heritage’
Three community projects in Glasgow will benefit from recent grants offered by the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), including the ‘Pyramid at Anderston’, a new social enterprise delivering programmes from Glasgow’s iconic Pyramid Church, as well as funds to support the ongoing renewal of Govanhill Baths.
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The Heritage Alliance seeks trustees!
The Heritage Alliance is looking for three new trustees to join its Board from December 2018, as well as a Treasurer to take over from Richard Norton in December 2019.
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Kedleston Voice ready to go to the Supreme Court
Community group Kedleston Voice has been given legal advice that they may challenge a Court of Appeal decision in the Supreme Court, surrounding planning permission for 400 dwellings near Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire.
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New Context out, with a new angle: ‘Theory to Practice and back again!
The latest issue of the IHBC’s membership journal Context is now out, themed around ‘From Theory to Practice and Back Again’ as it explores how academic research has been used in practice, and what academics can learn through engagement with practitioners, while also carrying the usual regular features such as book reviews, reports from the IHBC Chair and Director and much more.
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IHBC spotlights HODs as ‘Heritage On your Doorstep’: Welcome to September!
Many IHBC members and colleagues will be involved in Heritage Open Days (HODs) and their equivalent during September 2018, while events take place throughout Europe to open doors and venues at no charge, and run special events for all.
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IHBC’s HESPR top pick from £1.6M+ costed work this week: Liverpool CC seeks services for local Spatial Regeneration Framework (SRF) closing 05/09
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the IHBC Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week featuring a call from Liverpool City Council (CC) which seeks services… to produce a Spatial Regeneration Framework (SRF)… of the Mathew Street/Cavern Quarter’, which closes on 05/09 and while no value is stated.
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IHBC CPD Boost: Consultation- who and how?
The Consultation Institute has published a discussion on whose views we may be hearing through consultation activities, arguing that stakeholder mapping is needed and that we should consult both the ‘worried’ and the ‘wider’ public, suggesting methods for this as we consider: ‘Who should consultation documents aim to reach out to?’
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IHBC’s ‘IMHO’ signpost: GHF on ‘How Heritage Became Sexy (and what that means for the future of Conservation)’
The academic study of heritage is experiencing an unexpected renaissance as, after decades of consignment to the ivory tower, ‘heritage’ has emerged as a favored buzzword, appearing in modern marketing for travel agencies, music festivals, and even celebrity food show, says the Global Heritage Fund (GHF), but what does the rise of ‘heritage’ mean for the future of conservation?
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400,000th listed building for England
The milestone of a 400,00th listed building designation for England has been reached, through listing the former head office of the Raleigh Cycle Company in Nottingham.
image: HE website
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Applications sought for Scotland’s ‘Making Places’ initiative: Closing dates in Sept & Oct
The Scottish Government have issued a call for applications relating to The Place Standard Conversations Fund and The Community-led Design Fund (closing dates 31 October and 28 September).
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Plans for increase in ‘Garden Towns’ in England: But concerns raised on places as well as semantics!
England’s Communities Secretary has called for an increase in so called ‘garden towns’ in England, aiming to construct 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s, but the plans have been criticised by CPRE, which questions the use of the term ‘garden’, relating it back to the original vision of Ebenezer Howard.
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HES Planning Performance Framework Report out: meeting or exceeded 90%+ of response targets
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has launched a report which details its performance relating to planning functions, showing that it has met or exceeded over 90% of its response targets.
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HE’s Heritage Counts 2018 released
Heritage and Society 2018 has been released by Historic England (HE), which ‘includes recent research findings as well as past seminal pieces’ to highlight the importance of the historic environment for wellbeing and sense of place.
image: Cover of Heritage & Society Document: © Sunny Bank Mills
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Dismantling starts on Sellafield chimney – ‘the scene of Britain’s worst nuclear accident’
Preparations for demolition of Windscale Pile One, the 110m high chimney structure at Sellafield which was the scene of Britain’s worst nuclear accident, have begun.
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BS ISO 37106:2018 ‘Guidance on establishing smart city operating models for sustainable communities’ out, for ‘city leaders, policy makers’ and more
The British Standards Institute (BSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have just issued a new joint standard on ‘Guidance on establishing smart city operating models for sustainable communities’, for ‘for city leaders, policy makers, local government senior executives, officers and directors, as well as community innovators’.
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