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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
Scottish Government publish key findings from the SHCS 2016
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Threat of legal action leads NP to defer planning decision on new homes for locals
A threat of legal action has led the Planning Committee of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) to defer a decision on whether to grant planning permission for five new, affordable homes in Bainbridge for local people.
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Latest SPAB Briefing series available to download: ‘Disaster and Recovery’
The latest, fourth, in the SPAB Briefing series is now ready to download – Disaster and Recovery – explains how, by being prepared and following the approach advocated by the SPAB, practitioners can ensure that appropriate measures are taken to protect old buildings from potential disasters and to help them survive should the worst happen.
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Councils respond to England’s Local Government finance proposals: Income cannot plug gaps from funding cuts
England’s Local Government Association (LGA) has responded to the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement published recently, noting that ‘Years of unprecedented central government funding cuts’ mean local government is now unable to use ‘council tax income… to plug the growing funding gaps’, and ‘and increasingly little is left to fund other services, like cleaning streets, running leisure centres and libraries, and fixing potholes’.
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IHBC @ 100+ articles on DBW! From ‘London Churches after the fire’ to the IHBC on HER data, and beyond…
More than 100 articles from the IHBC – ranging from member journal Context content to IHBC research on data for Historic Environment Records (HERs) – now feature on our partner service Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), the construction industry knowledge base.
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FINAL REMINDER: IHBC’s 5-minute member survey closes 8 Jan!
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IHBC VP notes new SIs for England include fees; operating from 17 Jan
Statutory Instrument (SI) 2017 No. 1314 The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) Regulations amends the 2012 SI of the same name, such that planning fees must now be paid for applications made under an Article 4 Direction.
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IHBC HESPR ‘Reminder Pick’: ‘Guidelines for Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment’, closing 2 Feb 2018
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IHBC Context’s ‘What makes a heritage-at-risk officer?’ features on DBW
The ‘Heritage at risk’ officer’s role, as reviewed by Dan Longman in the IHBC member journal Context issue 150, on Conservation and Urbanism, has been featured on email updates from our partner service Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), the construction industry knowledge base.
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IHBC’s heritage ‘from the doorstep’: Historic Lowestoft chosen for heritage transformation – from ‘at risk’ to regeneration vis HAZ
An ‘at risk’ part of historic Lowestoft, linking the town to the original fishing village, has now the subject of a major regeneration project supported by its designation as a Heritage Action Zone (HAZ), as The Lowestoft Journal reports.
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SNH’s Green Infrastructure Community Engagement Fund to re-open for applications – closes 3 April
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is re-opening its Community Engagement Fund to new applicants at the start of 2018, a fund aimed at transforming some of Scotland’s most deprived urban areas by developing and improving their green spaces, with a deadline for applications of 3 April.
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SPAB wins court case opposing harmful alterations to a medieval Sussex church
The SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) has won a landmark court case this month involving a harmful proposal to Grade I listed Holy Trinity, Poynings, Sussex.
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RTPI responds to Sunday Times article on planning corruption
Following articles published in The Sunday Times on 17 December claiming that corruption is endemic in the English planning system, RTPI has complained to the paper and sent a Letter to the Editor from its President Stephen Wilkinson.
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A view from the school: Why young people don’t want to work in construction, by a young person – ‘Sell the sector in school’
An opinion piece on UK ConstructionWeek explores why so few young people are taking up careers in construction, featuring a guest blog from a fifteen year old and Year 10 work experience student who says ‘… the industry needs to do more to sell itself while girls and boys are still in school’.
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Perspectives in pictures: Heritage angles on CIOB’s ‘The Art of Building 2017’ from the BBC
Twelve finalists have been chosen from this year’s ‘Art of Building’ architectural photography competition, run by the Chartered Institute of Building, as relayed by BBC News, with older and heritage places featuring strongly.
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IHBC’s 2018 Annual School – ‘Shared Heritage’, Belfast, June 21-23 – now formal EYCH2018 event: Use free NewsBlogs for updates
The IHBC’s 2018 Annual School, ‘Our Shared Heritage’ has joined to the formal listing of UK events for the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH), while non-IHBC members can get regular updates on School news via our NewsBlogs trial HERE
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REMINDER: IHBC’s 5-minute member survey closes 8 Jan!
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Nominations sought for IHBC Marsh Awards 2018 Update: President calls for entries – closing 28 February
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IHBC welcomes new ICOMOS ‘Principles for Conservation of Wooden Built Heritage’, 2017
The IHBC has welcomed the adoption of the new ‘Principles for the Conservation of Wooden Built Heritage’ by the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Wood (IIWC), in a session of the of the 19th General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) held in Delhi on 15th December 2017, which replace those adopted previously in 1999.
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IHBC HESPR’s weekly top weekly pick from c.£225K+ costed work this week: Nottinghamshire WWI memorial design contest, valued £200,000, closing 26/01
The IHBC’s heritage business list, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alert’ emails, with costed opportunities worth more than £225,000 for the last week, while the IHBC Director’s current top pick for NewsBlog readers features, from Nottinghamshire, notice of a WWI Centenary Memorial Design Contest, valued at £200,000 for both design and delivery, and closing 26/01.
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HE: Heritage bodies sought for positive action training scheme – closing 19 January
Historic England (HE) is inviting heritage sector organisations to participate in a scheme to increase the diversity of the heritage workforce. The scheme is aimed at undergraduates or very recent graduates who identify as having Black, Asian or other Minority Ethnic Heritage, closing 19 January.
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Law Commission consultation on planning law in Wales: Ends 1 March
On 30 November 2017, the Law Commission launched a twelve-week public consultation on its proposals to modernise and codify planning law in Wales, with a deadline for responses of 1 March 2018.
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FMB launches ‘Homes on our high streets’: revives ‘living over the shops’ (LOTS) strategy
The Federation of Master Builders’ (FMB) has launched its ‘Homes on our high streets’ report, which makes recommendations to Local Authorities and others to help bring back residential units above shops back into use, arguing that ‘Many of these buildings will be heritage assets so such a move could have a positive impact on their appearance and maintenance’.
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Old Street ‘Iconic Gateway’: Call for design ideas – closes 29 January
Together with the Mayor of London, Transport for London (TfL) and Hackney Council, Islington Council are issuing an ‘Open Call for Design Ideas’ to create an iconic gateway at Old Street, with the entries closing on 29 January.
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Dover AONB homes stopped by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the Court of Appeal against plans to build 521 homes in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
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