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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
Update: Heritage Impact Statements in Wales
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SNH provides clear focus for Scotland’s coastal landscapes
New guidance to help professionals assess the potential impacts of future development on Scotland’s coastal landscapes has been published by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
image Fiona Newton, IHBC
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Opinion piece on design research: ‘The Research Paradox for Architects’
In an opinion piece, Peter Raisbeck suggests that there are people in this world who don’t think architecture has much to do with research.
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£15 million Northern Cultural Regeneration Fund to boost region’s tech, creative and cultural industries
Towns and cities across the North of England can bid for grants to help build a lasting regional legacy from the Great Exhibition of the North.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Historic Cadbury Barn 1895 torched by ‘arsonists – ‘years of history gone in a few hours’
An historic 120-year-old barn, the Cadbury Barn, Manor Farm Park, just off Bristol Road South, once owned by the Cadbury family, has been razed to the ground by arsonists.
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Is your IHBC fee late? Remember, ‘Money is not the barrier’ to our support for your heritage career, job or trade – from low fees to no fees…’
If your IHBC fee is late, get it sorted now, and remember that money is not the barrier to IHBC support for your career ambitions as, alongside our great value, income-linked low fee rates, we offer lots of help to make sure you have the best possible support from us to advance your role in the heritage sector.
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IHBC welcomes CLA profile on retrofit, highlighting the bigger picture
The IHBC has welcomed the Policy Briefing from the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) ‘The Retro Fit-Up’, which highlights the problems with the current energy assessment method, especially in terms of traditional buildings operated as rental properties by its members.
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Stone industry ethical trading register under progress
British Land, Costain, Crossrail, Kier, Multiplex, SBID, Sir Robert McAlpine and Skanska were all represented when Stone Federation Great Britain met stakeholders in its creation of an ‘Ethical Stone Register’.
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‘Vulnerability’ Brown – Gardens Trust seeks input to report highlighting risk to Capability Brown landscapes!
As a follow-up to last year’s Capability Brown tercentenary, the Gardens Trust, supported by Historic England, is preparing a report on Capability Brown landscapes at risk.
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Industry and university partnerships to power a creative revolution
As part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy, a record £80m-plus is being invested to create a step-change in collaboration between the country’s internationally-renowned creative industries and universities across the UK.
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BEFS Blog: A Garden for Granton’s Renaissance
Chair of Built Environment Scotland (BEFS), Graeme Purves, tells members about the restoration of an overgrown renaissance garden in Granton as a catalyst for urban renewal.
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SAVE: Leading architects, writers and historians back bid to save Southwark tube station
Leading architects, writers and historians back bid to save Southwark tube station – a modern ‘architectural sensation’.
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Aggregates and construction company Leiths buys Fyfe Glenrock
Fyfe Glenrock, the Scottish arm of stone wholesaler Pisani (which went into Administration in June), has been bought for an undisclosed sum by aggregates and construction company Leiths (Scotland) with its headquarters in Aberdeen, where Fyfe Glenrock’s premises are.
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Opinion blog from the US: Engaging with the Historical Past through Gaming
A blog on the Preservation Leadership site argues that in video games, place is one of the most important components to player engagement.
image from Blog/ Tenement Museum NY
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IHBC on ‘Heritage Project Management’, with CIOB: local training, for UK practitioners – Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, 18/19 October
On 18/19 October the IHBC, with local and national partners that include the CIOB, will host a learning day and more on ‘Heritage Project Management’, at Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, offering delegates from across the UK practical insights into the working of heritage-led regeneration projects across Castle, conservation area and building works valued at some £90 million. Continue reading
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IHBC update on HE review of written advice and guidance: LA conservation services input sought
Pye Tait is carrying out an independent review of Historic England’s (HE) online advice and guidance, and they want to try and boost responses from local authority (LA) conservation officers in particular.
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HESPR’s top pick of the week: Medway Council seeks heritage interpretation strategy and delivery on HLF project, closing 1 September, valued £97,000
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, while the IHBC Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week features a call from Medway Council for a heritage interpretation strategy and delivery on its ‘Command Of The Heights’ HLF-funded project, valued at £97,000, and closing 1 September.
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New Designing Buildings Wiki post features Sir Donald Insall on Chester Conservation Areas, from our ‘Anniversary’ Context
Sir Donald Insall’s article on ‘Chester, conservation as positive action’, written for the IHBC’s Conservation Area anniversary issue of Context of March 2017, is now available on Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), the construction industry’s knowledge base, through the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki resource.
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DCLG publishes guidance on Brownfield Registers and Permission in Principle
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has published Planning Practice Guidance to support permission in principle and brownfield registers of land suitable for housing, while a national data standard that all local planning authorities in England are encouraged to follow in preparing and publishing their brownfield land registers has also been published.
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London Mayor’s new planning rules to boost affordable housing: Faster planning permission
At least half the new homes built on public land in London will have to be affordable to benefit from faster planning permission under a new approach to development set out in ‘Supplementary Planning Guidance’ published by the Mayor, Sadiq Khan.
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Places, People and Planning – BEFS response to the Position Statement
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has submitted its response to the Scottish Government’s position paper on the planning review, published in advance of an anticipated Planning Bill this autumn.
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Nominations for Ecclesiastical’s Heritage Heroes Awards 2017 now open; closing 30 Sept
Nominations are now open for Heritage Heroes Award which will be announced by The Heritage Alliance (THA) on Heritage Day 2017, with entries closing on 30 September.
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SAVE & partners granted permission for judicial review of government decision on Paddington Cube
The High Court has granted permission to SAVE Britain’s Heritage (SAVE) with the Victorian Society and others, to challenge the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government over his refusal to call in the Paddington Cube proposals for public inquiry.
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Campaigners delighted as reconstruction work finally begins on Maida Vale pub the Carlton Tavern
Work has begun, as a result of campaigners fight, on the reconstruction of a beloved pub the Carlton Tavern, Maida Vale which was knocked down illegally by its owners.
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Scottish ‘history police’ aim to correct misleading displays
A Scottish tour operator has set up a national ‘history police’ forum, allowing the public to report misleading or inaccurate information at museums and local information boards. Continue reading
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