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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
HESPR’s top pick of the week: Consultant to evaluate impact of Historic England’s work, valued £30-40k, closing 10 July
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IHBC CPD boost: Reflections on the Power of Place – Locality-led partnering on place-based working in Sheffield
Over 100 people from different walks of life gathered around a dance floor in Sheffield City Hall recently – not to learn ballroom steps, but instead to learn how to be partners in place-based working, in a joint event with organisers that included Locality, the national network for community-led organisations.
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HE reopens applications for Heritage Action Zones (HAZ)- improve economic growth and quality of life in your local places
Historic England (HE) has reopened applications for Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) status and support, offering opportunities to improve economic growth and quality of life in cities by breathing new life into old places.
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Scotland’s ‘What’s Your Heritage?’ campaign results out as Scots share thoughts on what heritage means to them
A report on what heritage means to Scots has been published by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), revealing which of Scotland’s places, buildings and monuments might be recognised and celebrated.
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Rural Network Wales’ Sustainable Management Scheme Application to open 10 July
Rural network Wales Sustainable Management scheme third application window is opening on 10 July, and will provide financial support for land management and collaboration activities.
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Girdwood Community Hub takes top honours at Northern Ireland RICS Awards
More than 30 of Northern Ireland’s most impressive and community-beneficial property schemes battled it out for top honours at the RICS Awards 2017, Northern Ireland with North Belfast’s Girdwood Community Hub claiming the overall ‘Project of the Year’ award.
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IHBC President’s planning perspectives: RIBA’s ‘Design Companion for Planning and Placemaking’
RIBA Publishing has released ‘The Design Companion for Planning and Placemaking’, a primer described as ‘invaluable for planners, councillors, highway engineers and anyone involved in planning, creating or changing places’, that includes a contribution from IHBC President David McDonald on the historic environment.
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IHBC Members with benefits: £10 off RTPI NE on ‘Heritage Matters’, in Newcastle, 5 July
Reduced rates are on offer to IHBC members from RTPI North East (NE) for its ‘Heritage Matters: from Policy to Practice‘ seminar in Newcastle on 5 July 2017, at which IHBC North Branch Chair Jules Brown will speak on ‘Conservation Areas: 50 and beyond’.
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IHBC opportunities spotlight: Innovate UK seeks applications for £5m for innovation in ‘infrastructure systems for a better world’
Innovate UK will invest up to £5m in projects – including Knowledge Transfer Partnership in infrastructure systems – that stimulate innovation in infrastructure systems that provide critical services for the economy, environment and society and create growth for UK businesses, with applications opening on 10 July 2017.
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Conservative areas ‘difficult’ to get planning permission in, warn developers
Property developers are finding it ‘significantly more difficult’ to get new houses built in areas controlled by Conservative politicians, new research reveals.
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Nominations open for third Scottish ‘Heritage Angels’ Awards 2017
Nominations have opened for the third Scottish Heritage Angels Awards in a bid to find those groups and individuals – or ‘Angels’ – who have played a special part in caring for, recording and celebrating the nation’s historic environment.
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Findings from Lichfields’ latest research into rural tourism
Lichfields has published its most recent insight ‘Rural estates: economic benefits of rural tourism’, with key findings underpinning the case that ‘Planning is key to unlock the value in rural estates’.
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NT scoops ‘Special Recognition Award’ for excellence at the Museums + Heritage Awards
On 17 May the National Trust (NT) was awarded a one-off Special Recognition Award at the prestigious Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence.
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Campaigners win right to appeal Lancashire fracking decision
Campaigners have been granted permission to appeal against the decision to allow fracking in Lancashire.
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Grosvenor unveils £500m plans for 12 acres in Bermondsey
Building reports that Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has unveiled its £500m masterplan for 1,500 new rental homes in Bermondsey in South East London.
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Titanic Belfast and Odyssey expansion plans
Titanic Belfast and the Odyssey Pavilion are both set to undergo fresh expansion according to new plans reported on by the Belfast Telegraph.
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IHBC superlatives: Last chance AND once in a lifetime CPD – Heritage values and opportunities in transport infrastructure, Manchester 22/23/24 June
See the value and potential in heritage places for ‘planes, trains & automobiles’, and boats too, at the IHBC’s 2017 School, Manchester 22-24 June!
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IHBC welcomes England’s ‘Civic Day’, a national celebration of civic pride, June 17, from Civic Voice
Civic Voice has a variety of workshops and events available throughout England to help members prepare for Civic Day on June 17, as part of a national celebration that includes the IHBC-linked celebration of 50 years of Conservation Areas.
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HESPR’s top pick: Monmouthshire CC- Abergavenny Castle, ‘Sympathetic’ traditional timber-framed events structure, closing 17 July
The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members weekly Bulletins that bring tender and other commercial opportunities together into one handy resource, while the Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week features a call from Monmouthshire County Council for a costed design of a ‘traditional timber framed structure… sympathetic’ to the scheduled Abergavenny Castle, closing 14 July and no cost given.
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IHBC opportunities spotlight: Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 2017 Travelling Fellowship – closing 19 Sept
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) is currently accepting applications for fellowships across a range of different areas of research, which includes a category of special interest to IHBC members: ‘environment, conservation and sustainable living’, and has a deadline of 19 September.
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BEFS highlights data resources on Europe & seeks thoughts BREXIT priorities by 20 June…
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS), the link body for built and historic environment interests in Scotland, is highlighting research resources on European links while asking for thoughts on Brexit priorities by 20 June.
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SAVE’s ‘Up My Street’ – Buildings at Risk Catalogue 2017-18: Launches 28 June
SAVE Britain’s Heritage’s latest ‘Buildings at Risk Catalogue’ will be published on 28th June 2017, and features over 100 decaying buildings from across the country in need of new owners or new uses.
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Timeline for 50 years of the Scottish Civic Trust: Facelifts, tobacco, and BAR…
Gaby Laing, Heritage Officer at the Scottish Civic Trust has put together a timeline of the Trust’s history of the last fifty years to mark 50 years of the Scottish Civic Trust.
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Top UK council websites named by ‘Better Connected’
Thirty six local authorities have been identified as having the UK’s top council websites after performance surveys carried out from a customer perspective.
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Clumber Park says no to fracking – but energy firm could take legal action
Press reports cite National Trust bosses as having rejected a request from chemicals firm Ineos to conduct surveys at Clumber Park to test for shale gas – a process that could lead to fracking.
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