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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
CITB retains Skills Test in new SVQs following industry backing
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Election message from BESA is ‘grow your own skills’ via vocational training
BESA states why it’s more important than ever to nurture the workforce of tomorrow, why vocational training is crucial to tackling the UK’s poor productivity, and that the introduction of T Levels – which ‘fit neatly with the government’s ongoing support for Trailblazer’ – can help support the development of a more prosperous and inclusive society.
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Campaigners crowd fund in bid to go to Court of Appeal over QPR training site on Metropolitan Open Land (MOL)
Campaigners are seeking to raise £25,000 through crowdfunding in a bid to go to the Court of Appeal over the proposed siting of a Championship football club’s training facilities on Metropolitan Open Land (MOL).
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Heritage’s ‘people dimension’: Tenant of threatened historic Norwich bridge house calls for protection
The longstanding tenant of an historic bridge house in Norwich has called for it to be protected after the council revealed it could be demolished.
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IHBC congratulates NW Branch on hosting Manchester’s spectacular 2017 Annual School, and more…
On behalf of IHBC members and colleagues, Chair James Caird thanked the institute’s North West Branch, its School committee and volunteers, for an excellent 2017 Annual School in Manchester, on 22-24 June, saying also that he looks forward to another CPD triumph at our next School in Belfast in June 2018! Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes Scotland’s newest addition to heritage education: The Engine Shed, by HES and Stirling
The IHBC has welcomed the opening of a new pan-Scotland heritage education centre engaging and informing all ages with Scotland’s built and historic environment: the Engine Shed in Stirling, inspired and delivered by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), and officially opened by Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop on 26 June.
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Lucie Carayon IHBC appointed next AMS Director 2018
Trustees of the Ancient Monuments Society (AMS) have announced at their AGM that their Casework Secretary, Lucie Carayon IHBC, is to take on the Directorship of the Society in early 2018.
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IHBC HESPR’s top pick of the week: Condition survey of the Horniman Museum, valued @ £5000, closing 19 July
The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members weekly Bulletins that bring tender and other business opportunities together into one handy resource, while the Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week features a call from The Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust for detailed external and internal condition surveys of buildings and areas across two sites, valued at £5000, and closing 19 July.
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IHBC recognised CPD providers & HESPR Members limited offer: Promote your service with free copies of the next issue of IHBC’s Context – Conservation and Urbanism
IHBC recognised CPD Providers and HESPR members have the opportunity to receive free copies of the next issue of IHBC’s Context, to help promote themselves to clients, businesses, and members, so if you are recognised and want free copies of the next issue, contact Lydia at admin@ihbc.org.uk by 7 July (limited offer).
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Election 2017 update: UK government appointments summary
Following the 2017 elections, government has announced appointments for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG).
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Introducing HLF’s Heritage Ambassadors: 16-25, transforming the way young people experience heritage
The Heritage Lottery fund (HLF) has recruited a group of 16-25 year old ‘ambassadors’ to help transform the way young people experience and interact with heritage.
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LI-linked guidance outlines changes to new EIA Regulations which expand their scope
New Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations expand scope
The Landscape Institute (LI) has signposted guidance outlining the main changes in the new Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Regulations, which came into effect on 16 May.
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Dudley’s Black Country Living Museum forges ahead: Includes moving moving heritage, helped by Lottery’s £9.8m
A rare opportunity to save landmark community and commercial buildings from demolition, and rebuild them at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, has been awarded £9.8million from The National Lottery.
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IHBC welcomes Rebecca Thompson as CIOB’s new President, No. 114 (and 3698AFF (YO))
The IHBC has welcomed the CIOB’s new President, Rebecca Thompson, currently an IHBC Affiliate member in the Yorkshire (YO) Branch, who took up her appointment as 114th President of the CIOB on 19 June.
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IHBC South Branch says ‘The only way is ethics’ and places are available: 14 July, Oxford, from £35
Places are still available on the IHBC South Branch CPD seminar ‘The Only Way is Ethics! Walking the line: Conservation Principles, Policy and Practice…’ with speakers including Dr Charles Mynors, Richard Oxley and David Brock, on Friday 14 July in Oxford.
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IHBC Conservation Areas 50th Anniversary update No 1- IHBC/CV/HE joint research review update on ‘perceptions’
Historic England, working with Civic Voice (CV) and the IHBC, has released results of two parallel surveys of IHBC and CV members’ perceptions of conservation areas in their 50th anniversary year.
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IHBC CA 50th anniversary update No. 2: C20 Society needs your help to identify England’s 20th century Conservation Areas
To mark the 50th anniversary of conservation areas (CAs), the Twentieth Century Society has been awarded a grant by Historic England to research twentieth-century conservation areas and prospective designations, while IHBC President David McDonald is helping on the programme and call for information and suggestions.
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Next IHBC London Branch free membership application support event: 13 September, 6-8pm, N1
London Branch will host another free event to help practitioners applying for conservation accreditation by the IHBC on Wednesday 13 September, from 6.00 – 8.00 pm in London: early booking is essential.
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IHBC CPD boost: New Yorker posts split screen tour of NYC now and in 1930s
The New Yorker has posted a very neat split-screen tour of the same streets in New York City, letting you see the Big Apple in the in the 1930s and today.
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Help HE tell the story of England in 100 buildings and places
England’s historic sites were hotbeds of invention and creativity that shaped both our nation and the world beyond and Historic England (HE) invites nominations from the public.
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LGA guidance on introducing Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs)
The Local Government Association (LGA) has issued guidance on the issues local areas should consider where they are contemplating introducing a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO).
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Saltdean Lido: Swimming pool reopens after seven-year revamp
Grade II*-listed Saltdean Lido, which was in a dilapidated state and in danger of being partially demolished, has reopened following a seven-year restoration project and £3m of community funding through efforts of a local group who secured a lease from the council to operate it.
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IHBC makes history again: New joint conservation practice statement – ‘Conservation Professional Practice Principles’ launched at 2017 School and AGM
The IHBC has launched our joint ‘Conservation Professional Practice Principles’ at the 2017 Day School and AGM in Manchester, which offers a new, accessible statement on practice principles for specialists working in built and historic environment conservation roles.
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IHBC AGM 2017: Cultivating new officers while delivering on our ambitions
The IHBC’s 2017 Annual General Meeting saw the election of two new trustees to national posts in the institute – Jill Kerry (0472MEM NI) as IHBC Treasurer, and Andrew Shepherd, as IHBC Education Secretary, (1532MEM YO) – and new Branch representatives, while also re-electing those continuing in their roles, and thanking our outgoing officers.
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IHBC 2018 School announced: Belfast, June 21-23, 2018 – ‘Our shared heritage’
Andrew McClelland, chair of the IHBC’s Northern Ireland (NI) Branch, announced the theme and details for the 2018 Annual School at the close of the 2017 Day School in Manchester, introducing the school under the title: ‘Our shared Heritage: communication – negotiation – transformation’, a theme, in line with the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH) celebration of ‘diversity and richness’.
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