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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
IHBC and Heritage Project Management at Bishop Auckland, 18 & 19 October: Pre-event online CPD update
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IHBC 2016 School update: Edinburgh councillors unanimously reject Royal High School hotel plans
Delegates from the IHBC’s 2016 School in Worcester will remember the lively debate around Edinburgh’s heritage and commercial and hotel development, led by BEFS Director Euan Leitch and architect James Simpson, and may be especially interested to hear that even the revised plans to convert the Calton Hill landmark ‘Royal High School’ into a luxury hotel have been emphatically rejected by councillors, in line with city officers’ recommendations, and with many speaking in support of the effective management and care of the city and its heritage.
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IHBC HESPR’s top pick of the week: HE seeks a ‘Historic Area Assessment’ of Sunderland’s High Streets, closing 5 September
The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members a weekly ‘News and Tender Alert’ that brings business opportunities together into one handy resource, while the IHBC Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week features a call from Historic England (HE) relating to its Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) programme, which seeks ‘a Historic Area Assessment to establish the significance of Sunderland’s Historic High Streets and associated areas’, closing 5 September.
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JPICH Heritage in Changing Environments pre-call announcement: 4.5 million Euros for transnational proposals
The Joint Programming Initiative in Cultural Heritage and Global Change has announced a new funding opportunity of 4.5 million Euros for ‘transnational proposals’ with areas covered including ‘changing political and cultural environments’ and ‘environmental deterioration’.
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Scottish Government Climate Change Bill – Consultation Paper
This paper from the Scottish Government (SG) contains proposals for a new Climate Change Bill, to amend only those parts of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 that relate to emission reduction targets and associated reporting duties with a public consultation closing on 22 September.
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BD: Carbuncle Cup shortlists six contenders for worst building of 2017
Six buildings have been shortlisted for architecture’s least illustrious prize, courtesy BD (Building Design) – the Carbuncle Cup for the UK’s worst new building from the last year.
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Public phone boxes: nearing end of line
About 20,000 little-used red phone booths to be axed as mobiles reduce their relevance.
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A new home may need to last 2,000 years say LGA
The Local Government Association (LGA) warns that the average new home in England will have to last 2,000 years if the sluggish rate of house building and replacement continues.
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The Welsh Streets: a transforming moment as first restored houses opened
Prolonged battles by SAVE and partners to prevent the needless and wasteful destruction of tens of thousands of decent terraced houses in the north of England has received triumphant vindication with the opening in August 2017 of the first restored houses in Liverpool’s Welsh Streets.
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BBC links ‘heritage’ and ‘home’: ‘The landmarks that mean you’re nearly home’
The BBC has recently run a feature on the softer benefits of heritage: ‘..the sights that mean the journey’s end is near and the comforts of home await, from towers to trees and works of art, favoured roadside landmarks that loom large above the landscape.’
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Workmen accidentally start roof fire at Edinburgh Cat A/WHS hotel
Workmen are believed to have caused a major fire scare after setting alight the roof of a luxury Category A listed hotel, the Nira Caledonia on Gloucester Place in Edinburgh’s New Town and World Heritage Site.
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IHBC on ‘Fire’ and ‘Thatch’: New ‘Guidance Note’ out on IHBC’s ToolBox
The IHBC has launched a new Guidance Note (GN2017/5) on ‘Thatching, chimney stacks and fire’, exploring a single issue that brings together the most fundamental considerations in conservation practice: material, construction, design and risk.
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DBW features IHBC Context on ‘Retrofits’, German and UK!
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) has featured Carsten Hermann’s article on ‘Energy-related retrofits… a comparison between Germany and the UK’ published in the IHBC’s ‘Green retrofit’ issue of Context, No.149.
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IHBC CPD Boost: Tour Venice with a Virtual Time Machine
A thousand years of Venetian records, maps and images could digitally reconstruct this city’s deep history.
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New HE research from the LA services in the SW: ‘How you rate Local Authority heritage services’
An independent study led by Historic England (HE) and co-funded by the Heritage Lottery Find (HLF), has been published, revealing how people feel about the impacts of cuts on local authority heritage services in the South West.
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Wales’ National parks ‘could lose status if report implemented’
Wales’ national parks could lose their status as internationally recognised protected areas if a Welsh Government review is implemented, a panel of experts has warned.
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Grade II-listed Wythenshawe Hall fire, Greater Manchester: Man jailed for arson attack
A man who set fire to a Grade II-listed 16th Century timber framed manor house, Wythenshawe Hall, Greater Manchester leaving it partly destroyed, has been jailed.
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HE report demonstrates how London’s Heritage is vital for growth
A new report from Historic England (HE) – ‘Translating Good Growth for London’s Historic Environment’ – demonstrates how heritage can successfully underpin London’s growth.
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HES: Scotland’s first ever Heritage Awareness Day launched, for October 6
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is urging people across Scotland to come face to face with history to celebrate the first ever Heritage Awareness Day on October 6.
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IHBC’s London Branch looks to the future of Conservation Areas: ‘Back to the Future – The next 50 years…’, London, 3 Oct
The IHBC’s London Branch is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Civic Amenities Act 1967, which established Conservation Areas, by looking ahead against a ‘background of reduced local authority expenditure and continuing uncertainty over funding’, in our ‘Back to the Future’ conference on 3 October, in London’s Royal College of Physicians.
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IHBC’s ‘Branch Support Survey’ reminder: Has your Branch responded? Extended deadline 31 August!
The IHBC is continuing its review of Branch needs and priorities with a Committee-led survey out now, and thanks the Branches that have submitted responses to date – East Midlands; Wales; Yorkshire; South East; West Midlands and South – while encouraging more Committee responses with an extended deadline of 31 August.
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HESPR’s top pick of the week: A&DS seeks ‘a unique project for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice.. working with children and young people and the… theme ‘Freespace’’, closing 11 September, valued £59,000
The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members a weekly ‘News and Tender Alert’ that brings business opportunities together into one handy resource, and the IHBC Director’s top bid pick for NewsBlog readers this week features a call from Architecture & Design Scotland for ‘a unique project for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice… working with children and young people and the International Architecture Exhibition theme ‘Freespace’’, valued at £97,000, and closing 11 September.
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IHBC members with benefits: reduced rates at HTN’s ‘Inspiring Heritage for All’ conference: Hull, 3-4 October
The IHBC is delighted to support again the Annual Conference of the Heritage Trust Network (HTN) in Hull, 3-4 October, with c.15% reductions in fees on offer to IHBC members.
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IHBC update: Limited time for funding applications from War Memorials Trust: by 30 September
War Memorials Trust urges custodians and those responsible for war memorials to apply for funding as soon as possible where conservation and repair is needed as there is now limited funding available while the next deadline for grant applications is 30th September.
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London: aspiring to be the world’s first ‘National Park City’
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, offers his support to help make the city the world’s first National Park City and one of the greenest cities on earth.
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