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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- 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 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
- IHBC joins 33 leading organisations calling for £6.8M in urgent funding to support Planning Schools 10/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 10/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Management’ signpost): AJ on legal challenge to Barbican demolition… which ‘can proceed’ 10/10/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments… to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’ 10/10/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 10/10/2025
- £214m new funding for Welsh communities to improve neighbourhoods and restore pride 10/10/2025
- RICS calls for expressions of interest for pilot programmes of new professional pathways 10/10/2025
- RTPI launches five-year strategy to elevate planning: Empower 2030 10/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Donovan Rypkema & Heritage Strategies International seek input on ‘measuring in Arts, Culture, and Heritage’ 10/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 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
Capturing Planning in Images – Competition to Picture Wales: Closing 10 Nov
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Parliament investigates report of falling masonry
Part of the Parliamentary estate was cordoned off on Thursday after reports that masonry had fallen from part of a building, smashing a car window.
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National Trust research shows that places matter
Scientific research carried out by the National Trust has found that natural and historic places have a powerful effect on all of us, as their ‘Places that Make us’ report demonstrates the depth of people’s connection with place.
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NHMF\HLF: 4 new Trustees sought: Closing 3 Nov
Four new Trustees are sought to join the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)/ National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) Board in 2018, with applications closing 3 November.
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IHBC welcomes new SPAB insights in the ‘SPAB Approach’: Critical practice perspectives for modern decision-making
The IHBC has welcomed the new statement on the practice standards and philosophy of the SPAB – The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings – recently published under the title ‘The SPAB approach to the care and conservation of old building’, and written by the SPAB Director and Full IHBC member Matthew Slocombe.
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IHBC CPD Boost Reminder: TCPA’s 70th anniversary online and in debate… from HE
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REMINDER: Make your voice heard on the impact of conservation cuts!
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HE launches ‘Another England’: supporting ‘the stories of people of colour in England’
Historic England (HE) is looking for people, groups and organisations to get involved in its ‘Another England’ project – to better understand the stories of people of colour in England – and tell HE about the places and histories that should be included and help find appropriate ways to acknowledge the important stories that come to light.
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Vic Soc: Campaign to save Conan Doyle’s last building from demolition
The Victorian Society (Vic Soc) reports on how the only surviving building designed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could be demolished for new residential units if a planning application gets consent.
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HSE launches second phase of construction inspection campaign Heritage
Construction projects across Britain are being urged by The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to act now to ensure the health and safety of their workers is protected as the second phase of a targeted inspection initiative gets underway today.
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C20 Society Looks Back at Britain’s Lost Heritage
The Twentieth Century Society (C20) is highlighting some of Britain’s most dynamic and expressive buildings that have been lost as the speed of demolition increasingly outpaces heritage recognition.
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Planning application accidentally granted before consultation ends
The Consultation Institute reports that Bexley Council has apologised to a group of residents after a ‘human error’ led to a planning application in their street being granted before the end of the statutory consultation period.
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DBW’s quiz: ‘How can tomorrow’s challenges be met by today’s buildings?’: Closing 2 Nov
IHBC’s Wiki partner Designing Buildings Wiki, has joined forces with BSRIA to offer a new competition looking for fresh and innovative ideas in response to the question:
How can tomorrow’s challenges be met by today’s buildings?’, with up to £500 worth of BSRIA membership, training or publications for the winner.
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IHBC extends private sector support for applicants: Free IHBC CPD ‘MATE’s update, for a CgMS audience
The IHBC’s popular and free MATE seminars – our Membership Application Training Events, which support CPD-linked applications for IHBC accreditation – have taken a huge leap forward as planning consultancy CgMS hosted the first of a new IHBC seminar series that for private sector companies – including IHBC’s HESPR members – while CgMs welcomed the pilot as ‘… an excellent, bespoke seminar that wholly clarified the process of application for CgMS consultants.’
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IHBC welcomes new research on LPA Urban Design services: Confirms England’s housing delivery threatened by design skills shortage
The IHBC has welcomed new research into Local Planning Authority (LPA) Urban Design (UD) skills and services by a team at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning – supported by the Urban Design Group (UDG) and the PLACE Alliance – which both maps the serious design skills shortages in public services and highlights how these might constrain England’s housing delivery plans.
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SCT launches IHBC-supported Annual Conference – 50 years of Conservation Areas and Trusts: 27 November, Glasgow
The Scottish Civic Trust (SCT) has launched its next Annual Conference, hosted in partnership with the IHBC, celebrating both 50 years of conservation areas and the 50th anniversary of the Trust, with reduced rates offered to IHBC members attending in Glasgow on 27 November.
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Last chance: IHBC seeks ‘Consultant Policy Advisor’ – Closes 23 October
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IHBC HESPR’s top pick from c.£600,000+ of costed work this week: Quinquennial inspection of Leicestershire church
The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers HESPR members weekly ‘News and Tender Alert’ emails, with costed opportunities worth more than £600,000 this time, while the IHBC Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week features a call through ChurchCare for an accredited architect to carry out the quinquennial inspection of a church at Stapleton, Leics, closing 27 October.
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IHBC CPD boost: Mimetic architecture scandal with bribery and corruption takes the biscuit… from DBW
IHBC’s Wiki partner Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), has taken the opportunity to offer a little CPD boost for IHBC members who might want to relax with tea and a biscuit as they review this Teapot Dome Service Station from Washington state, USA, a former gas station, and its scandal-struck background, the Teapot Dome Scandal of 1921-22 which involved bribery and corruption.
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Work on Cardiff’s Coal Exchange examined to see if it goes beyond planning consent
Wales online reports that Cardiff council is examining whether the Coal Exchange developer is carrying out work without planning consent.
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RTPI World Town Planning Day 2017 Schools Competition: Closing World Town Planning Day – 8 Nov
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has announced the 2017 Schools Competition to mark World Town Planning day and its theme is ‘How would you make your local place more inclusive resilient and sustainable?, with the competition closing on World Town Planning Day: 8 November 2017.’
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Impact of Brexit and local authorities’ role to be examined by Commons Select Committee: Calls close 14 Nov
The Communities and Local Government Committee’s ‘Brexit and Local Government’ inquiry looks at which powers currently held by the EU could be transferred to town halls after the UK’s exit.
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Bolton’s Beehive Mills demolition plan to go ahead as Government cancels planning inquiry
The Beehive Mills, in Great Lever, Grade II Listed, will be demolished sooner than expected after a Government inquiry into plans to build homes on the site was cancelled.
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Blackpool’s piers placed on WMF heritage watch list: Include GII listed
Blackpool’s three piers – including the Grade II (GII) listed North Pier – have been put on the 2018 ‘at risk’ list of the World Monuments Fund (WMF) due to the threats from the effects of climate change and changing tourism needs.
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IHBC Marsh Awards 2018 launched: Nominations for retired IHBC members and New Heritage Learners – Closing end Feb 2018
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Christian Trust, has entered its third year with the launch of the 2018 Awards, to celebrate retired IHBC members and successful learners in heritage practice, with prizes that include £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s 2018 Annual School, and with a closing date of 28 February 2018.
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