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- 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
- 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
Scotland’s Lime specialist SLCT hosts HRH Prince Charles, celebrating 20,000th learner: Colin Rowan
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Victorian Society marks 10 years of endangered buildings campaigning with new top 10 list
National architecture charity the Victorian Society has released its annual Top 10 Endangered Buildings list which recognises at-risk Victorian and Edwardian buildings and structures throughout England and Wales, noting that all of the buildings on this year’s list have been neglected for up to fifty years and have now reached a critical point of dereliction; only urgent action to repair and renovate the buildings can save them from being lost forever.
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The UK’s first plot shop opens for self and custom build homes
The UK’s first ever ‘plot shop’ has officially opened in the town of Bicester by Housing and Planning Minister, Alok Sharma.
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Considerate Constructors Scheme achieves 100,000 milestone
The Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) – the national Scheme to improve the image of the construction industry – has reached a major milestone in UK construction history by registering its 100,000th site.
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Vic Soc on Bristol landmark threatened by student flats
The Victorian Society (Vic Soc) highlights that one of the oldest hospital buildings in the country is under threat of total demolition as part of controversial plans for a large-scale student development in Bristol town centre.
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DCMS Report: The role of culture, sport and heritage in place shaping
New research published by The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) explores the role of culture, sport and heritage (CS&H) assets, and investment in driving positive economic and social outcomes at the local level, and concludes that ‘the existence of and investment in CS&H assets can be seen to be important influencers of place-shaping’.
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UK’s best preserved WW1 aerodrome secures National Lottery cash
Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome, near Maldon in Essex, will be transformed into a major visitor attraction, thanks to National Lottery funding.
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IHBC on Project Management at Bishop Auckland, 18/19 Oct: CIOB President (and newly accredited Full IHBC member) helps spread the word!
Rebecca Thompson, President of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), and one of the IHBC’s newest accredited (‘Full’) Members, has commended the IHBC’s Bishop Auckland Heritage Project Management to both CIOB and IHBC members, as the CIOB is circulates news of the event to its members, nationally and beyond.
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IHBC and COTAC jointly welcome BIM4Heritage’s launch conference
IHBC and COTAC as supporters of the BIM4Heritage initiative have welcomed its launch conference – titled ‘How can BIM help to understand and preserve the historic environment?’ – held at the Royal Academy on 14 September, with COTAC Chair Ingval Maxwell co-presenting, and case studies that explored the impact of the new Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology on heritage practice.
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HESPR’s weekly tenders @ £2.3Million+ of costed work: Top picks – Stock condition survey @£70-100k, and C&MPs for Brighton Royal Pavilion Garden
The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members a weekly ‘News and Tender Alert’ listing, this week with costed opportunities worth more than £2.3million, while the IHBC Director’s top picks for NewsBlog readers feature calls for stock condition surveys (worth up to £100,000) and conservation and management plans (C&MPs) for the Royal Pavilion Garden Brighton.
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IHBC CPD in depth and in Context: ‘Reconciling conservation and sustainable development’
University of Leicester urban conservation graduate Sean McEntee summarises the controversy around proposals for Norton Folgate in London as he sheds light on the need to balance conservation and urbanism in IHBC current Context, themed on ‘Conservation and urbanism’, No 150.
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ARB pre-consultation survey: Exploring ‘appropriate qualifications and training’ for architects – closes midnight, 2 October
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is undertaking a pre-consultation review of its ‘Criteria’ and ‘Procedures’ for its ‘Prescription of Qualifications’ – which ‘ensure that individuals hold appropriate qualifications and practical training experience’ – though current criteria specific to the historic environment covers only ‘Historic buildings legislation’, and with the pre-consultation closing 2 October.
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Parliamentary update: Culture, Media & Sport Committee – membership confirmed
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee membership for the 2017 Parliament has been finalised.
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An Inspector concludes… ‘Townhouse restoration outweighs loss of housing despite marginal supply’
The merging of two flats in a listed Chelsea townhouse by reinstating a staircase between them has been allowed, after Inspector Roger Catchpole ruled that the benefit of restoring the building’s historic layout outweighed the loss of separate housing units, and the reinstatement of the staircase would ‘enhance the architectural interest of the building, by restoring it to something more akin to the original layout’.
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Grenfell Tower fire: Inquiry ‘can and will provide answers’
The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has opened, with its chairman promising it will provide answers to how the disaster could have happened in 21st century London.
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60 years on: Planning inspectorate rules that Somerset lane is not a right of way
The BBC reports that, after a dispute lasting decades, and following a public enquiry, the Planning Inspectorate has ruled that a Somerset lane is not a footpath and has ordered definitive maps to be altered.
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Spot the Bull: Time-lapse video shows revamp of Bracknell town centre
The BBC has posted a time lapse video of the redevelopment of Bracknell town centre, work that involved the demolition of the town’s (big) ‘Brutalist’ centre but the ‘refurbishment’ of the (small) Bull pub, which ‘dates back to the 15th century’.
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‘What is a marketing exercise for ‘BAR’ and ‘HAR’? IHBC answers in our new ToolBox Guidance Note on ‘Marketing of heritage assets’
If you are looking for answers to marketing your heritage at risk (HAR), check out the IHBC’s new Guidance Note on the ‘Marketing of heritage assets’, just launched on our ToolBox resource (GN2017/6).
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Answers to car parking in conservation areas: ‘Conservation and Urbanism’ in IHBC’s Context 150
Architect Planner and engineer Colin Davis outlines a few ideas on how to integrate parked cars as effectively as possible into conservation areas while still conforming to current legislation and rules regarding cars parked on public land’.
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DBW selection from Open House London 2017 festival: 16/17 September
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) has selected some of the most interesting buildings to check on 16 and 17 September as part of Open House London festival of architecture and design.
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Do you know anyone who deserves a national honour? If so, DCMS wants to hear from you!
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is accepting nominations for candidates whose activities fall within their remit, i.e. sports, the creative industries, including fashion design and advertising, art, music, film, museums, tourism and hospitality, libraries, heritage, archaeology, broadcasting and radio.
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Nominations for Ecclesiastical’s Heritage Heroes Awards 2017: Open till 30 Sept
Nominations for the Ecclesiastical Heritage Heroes Award, 2017, the Heritage Alliance’s celebration of the achievements of volunteers are now being accepted up until 30 September.
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THA on Health, 2 October: ‘Is heritage good for your health?’
The Heritage Alliance has announced that booking is now open for their annual debate scheduled for Monday 2 October at The Adelphi Suite, The Waldorf Hilton: ‘Is heritage good for your health?’
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Robin Hood Gardens demolition is an ‘act of vandalism’ says Simon Smithson
Simon Smithson, the son of the architects behind the soon-to-be-demolished Robin Hood Gardens, has attacked politicians for tampering with the heritage-listing system, to erase prime examples of the UK’s post-war architecture. Continue reading
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Call for Entries 2018: European Union Prize For Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, closing 1 Oct
Applications for the next edition of the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, taking place during the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, can be submitted until 1 October 2017.
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