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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- 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
HESPR’s top pick: Redbridge, for ‘Hainault Ancient Forest — a landscape for the future’ project, closing 30 June, valued £488,500
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England’s youngest civic society Chairman elected to Bradford CS: On need for younger members and threats from conservation service reductions
30-year-old journalist Simon Cunningham, elected chair of Bradford Civic Society – the youngest ever Chairman of an English Civic Society – says civic societies needs to attract younger members, and highlights the damage from the dramatic downturn in conservation services across England.
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NI’s ‘longest listing’ – Mourne Mountain Wall – under repair, including from lightning damage
Northern Ireland’s (NI) longest listed monument is to be repaired after years of exposure to the elements and damage due to lightning strikes.
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Bristol named ‘green capital’ of the UK
Bristol has been named the greenest city in the UK as part of research into the country’s most environmentally friendly cities.
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English Heritage’s proposals for new footbridge at Tintagel Castle submitted to Cornwall Council
English Heritage’s proposals for a new footbridge which would span the gap between the castle’s mainland and island wards, at Tintagel Castle have been submitted to Cornwall Council.
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Buy a street name: Moray Council devise new way to raise cash – ‘Asda Avenue or Tesco Terrace!
A cash-strapped Moray Council is selling off the names of streets to businesses, which, The Scotsman paper argues, may open up the possibility of addresses such as Asda Avenue or Tesco Terrace.
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Walkers’ rock piles damaging ancient features of the North York Moors
Precious prehistoric monuments erected in the North York Moors thousands of years ago are being damaged, in some cases severely, by walkers building their own stone landmarks on top of them.
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Congrats all round after IHBC’s Council+ in Brum: Policy-packed, School-focused, & exploring governance, volunteer support and international strategies
The IHBC has concluded the 5th meeting of its ‘Council+’, the institute’s UK-wide forum for volunteers’ national oversight and development, which took place in Birmingham and covered topics as diverse as current policy panels – on Rural, Green and Consultations – new volunteer structures, and the IHBC’s evolving international strategy and governance.
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IHBC CPD spotlight: Explore Vic Soc concerns on proposed reordering of GI listed church
The Victorian Society (Vic Soc), in its role as a National Amenity Society, has objected to proposals for an extensive re-ordering put forward by the Church of St Botolph, a Grade I-listed building in Longthorpe, Peterborough, and IHBC members can study the Society’s perspectives via their online posting.
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UK construction skills gap could be helped with temporary visas for EU migrants post-Brexit
Migration Watch UK has issued a paper – EU Immigration, Post-Brexit – A Comprehensive Policy – on the prospect for temporary visas for EU migrants to work in jobs at lower skill levels than presently required for admission of non-EU nationals, such as bricklaying, plumbing and construction among others, for a maximum of three years after Brexit.
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Scotland’s cutting-edge technology from HES & GSA takes medieval Rosslyn Chapel around the world
A new mobile app, launched at the Rosslyn Chapel by Historic Environment Scotland and the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), will let members of the public see the Chapel’s renowned stonework wherever they are in the world.
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Firm behind Northern Ireland listed-building restorations sees surge in earnings
An engineering firm which has carried out works on some of Northern Ireland’s top listed buildings sees its pre-tax profits triple.
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Opinion: London’s Developers must build communities not just homes
In an article published by the Royal Society for the.. Arts.. (RSA) concerning the management London’s increasing population, Jonathan Schifferes suggests that most workers’ needs are not just about economic opportunities but also about the social and cultural life.
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Council of the European Union concludes: ‘Culture is an essential part of the EU’s international relations’
On 23 May the Council of the European Union adopted conclusions on culture in the European Union’s external relations and recognise that ‘culture is an essential part of the EU’s international relations’.
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CITB sells its awarding body CSkills Awards
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has agreed the sale of its awarding body, Cskills Awards, to NOCN.
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Couple given one year by Irish Supreme Court to demolish house built without permission, despite invoking Human Rights
A plumber and his wife who built 588 square meter home on land near Navan, in Ireland’s midlands, despite being told not to, have been ordered by the Irish Supreme Court to demolish it within one year, after a failed appeal that invoked, among other justifications, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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IHBC Policy Chair to update on ‘curtilage’ advocacy at SW Branch ‘Heritage in Law’ event – Bristol 9 June: Last chances to book
IHBC Policy Secretary Roy Lewis will update delegates at the IHBC South West (SW) Branch event, ‘Heritage in Law, in Bristol on 9 June, on the IHBC’s advocacy work relating to Historic England’s recent draft advice on listed buildings and curtilage.
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IHBC Marsh Awards 2017: Winners (x3!) receive awards, rewards & more at the IHBC’s 2017 School – Manchester 22-24 June
The judges of the second year of the IHBC Marsh Awards have met together and carefully assessed the submissions, and are delighted to announce the 2017 IHBC Marsh Award winners:
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Think smart with the IHBC, on transport’s heritage values, from peace trails to air places: Join our School and conference, Manchester 22-24 June
Explore one of the most challenging heritage resources – transport infrastructure – and find opportunities and answers to everything from ‘Peace trails’ to air infrastructure, all at the IHBC’s 2017 School (22-24 June), and let your colleagues and networks know!
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HESPR’s second top ‘two for one’ pick in a row! Hastings GII residential conversion (£88k) & Belfast refurb of B1 Listing (£220k), closing 23 & 27 June
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, and the Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week features another ‘two for one’ pick from across the UK, with calls for teams by Hastings Borough Council, for a flat conversion of a four storey Grade II Listed building located in Hastings Town Centre (£88k) and, from Belfast City Council, for Refurbishment of B1 listed St Comgall’s (£220k), closing 23 and 27 June respectively.
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Heritage Angel Awards: Closing date extended to 11 June: Celebrate ‘rescuers’, young people, craft/apprentices etc.
The closing date for the Historic England Heritage Angels Awards has been extended to midnight on 11 Junes, offering even more opportunities to to celebrate heritage contributions by those who have helped rescue England’s heritage.
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Northern Ireland’s smallest ‘church’ feared demolished
The Belfast Telegraph has reported on how on an online row has erupted after what has been described as ‘the smallest church in Ireland’ – St Gobban’s, Portbradden – appears to have been demolished, while though the building apparently was neither listed nor consecrated, it was recognised as a ‘tourist gem’.
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RICS & SPAB Building Conservation Summer School
The RICS & SPAB Building Conservation Summer School for 2017 will take place at the Royal Agriculture School, Cirencester, on 10-14 Sep 2017, offering the chance to ‘Unlock your career in historic building surveying’.
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Revamp of world’s first factory trials novel procurement
Integrated project insurance (IPI) is to be trialled on the £16m restoration of the world’s first factory into a working museum.
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Wales: Historic Environment Legislation update
Following preparations including supporting secondary legislation and statutory guidance, further provisions of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2016 came into force on 31 May 2017:
- Consultation, interim protection and review for scheduled monuments and listed buildings (Sections 3 and 4 and 24 to 26 and Schedules 1 and 2) These provisions make scheduling and listing more open and accountable and give interim protection to historic assets while the Welsh Ministers consult on proposed designations.
- Simplified scheduled monument consent process (Section 5). This establishes a streamlined application process for minor, beneficial works to a scheduled monument.
- Recovery of costs for urgent works to listed buildings (Section 30(6)). This brings the 2016 Act’s provisions on urgent works to listed buildings fully into effect. Local authorities are now able to make the costs of urgent works a local land charge and collect interest on outstanding sums.
- Statutory historic environment records (Sections 35 to 37). The Welsh Ministers must now compile and maintain a historic environment record for each Welsh local authority area. The Archwilio website (www.cofiadurcahcymru.org.uk/arch/) provides access to the historic environment records. Further details on these provisions and the supporting regulations and orders that also come into force today are available on the Cadw website.
For more information please contact Cadw’s Legislation and Policy Team at historicenvironmentleg@wales.gsi.gov.uk
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