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- 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
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s October ‘CPD Circular’: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events & resources, with Branch events, CPD Partnerships, Lime, Lutyens & more 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: Free entry to Listed Property Show, Malvern, 10-11/10… just email Charlie, or bring your IHBC business card! 03/10/2025
- 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 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories) 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s Professional Signpost: Historic Rochester Grade II listed bridge undergoes detailed principal inspection 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £87.5K+ weekly works: Social landlord seeks affordable housing services, to 10/10, £84K 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Decision on plan for Glasgow’s iconic Barrowlands sign 03/10/2025
- Housing Secretary issues ‘call to arms’ to ‘build, baby, build’ 03/10/2025
- Parliamentary Inquiry: ‘The Environment in Focus’, open to suggestions to 10 Oct 03/10/2025
- Surge in 18–25-year-old new members as National Trust annual report reveals growth of 39% 03/10/2025
- Edinburgh’s Cockburn Association welcomes new Director, Rowan Brown 03/10/2025
‘£1m house’ in Kingston collapses into rubble
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Plans outline five year vision for the Trossachs National Park: ‘… big priorities… to make a lasting difference…’
Scotland’s Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park is set to undertake significant rural development under a new draft five year plan now subject to a 12-week, closing 3 July.
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Opinion: Guardian views on funding church heritage – save buildings if not beliefs
An opinion piece from the Guardian recognises that the ancient churches and cathedrals of Britain are real national treasures, shared with unbelievers, and they must be paid for.
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Be a ‘Friend’ to the IHBC’s 2017 Manchester School and use your network to join ours, absolutely free! (Limited Offer)
Interested bodies can be a ‘Friend’ of the IHBC’s 2017 Manchester School, hosted by our North West Branch, and have their logo and website link on our ‘Friends of the School’ page, by agreeing to promote the School’s profile across their freely and easily accessible news or social media networks.
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IHBC & partners in Belfast, 9 May: Preparing for the 2018 IHBC School as John Edwards says: ‘It’s Not Just Retrofit’
The IHBC Northern Ireland (NI) Branch and partners, the UAHS (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society) and RSUA (Royal Society of Ulster Architects), host a ‘Retrofit’ presentation and discussion led by IHBC trustee John Edwards in Belfast on 9 May, from 5-7pm, linked to planning for the Branch’s hosting of the IHBC Annual School, which will take place in Belfast in June 2018.
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IHBC Scotland fixes up your CPD Day on Metal Roofs: 28 April, Newhailes
The IHBC’s Scotland Branch offers a one-day seminar on 28 April 2017 in and around Newhailes, to examine good practice in lead jointing, shaping lead on to awkward roofs, slate trimming and laying on metal roofs.
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THATCH CPD reminder: ‘Conservation of Thatch’, 17 May, Peterborough
Another remarkable day of IHBC-recognised CPD on the ‘Conservation of Thatch’, is on offer on 17 May, in Peterborough, with fees supported by Historic England.
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HS2 IHBC opportunity – Reminder deadline for 3 May Birmingham event: 18 April
The IHBC and the Supply Chain team at HS2 (High Speed 2) are inviting IHBC members to an HS2 ‘Enabling Works Supplier Day’ on 3 May at the VOX, Birmingham, with Tuesday 18 April the deadline for registering interest.
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IHBC’s ‘Top HESPR pick’ of the week: St Andrews University seeks consultant for refurbishment of B-listed Younger Hall; £7,500,000, closing 8 May
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 a call from St Andrews University for a Consultant Architect for the Refurbishment of the Younger Hall at the university of St Andrews, with contract valued at £7,500,000, closing 8 May.
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‘Early Bird’ rates for IHBC’s 2017 Annual School end 21 April: Book now and save on CPD
Rate reductions on ‘Early Bird’ bookings for the IHBC’s 2017 School – ‘Transport Infrastructure’ – end 21 April, so if you want to get even better value, be sure to book now for your annual ‘re-charge’ of heritage CPD (Continuing Professional Development).
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RICS and YouGov headline how specialist skills shortage generates risk for buildings
A new RICS and YouGov survey warns that historic buildings are at risk due to a restoration skills crisis threatening their future.
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High Court quashes PP for 5-bed home for third time: challenges include definitions of ‘village’ and ‘limited infilling’
Northumberland Council has seen its grant of planning permission for a five-bed home quashed by the High Court for a third time, part of a sequence of successful challenges linked to Green Belt and Local Plan policy, as well as definitions of a ‘village’ in national planning policy and interpretations of ‘limited infilling’.
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£24m EU funding boost an epic tourism start to Easter in rural Wales
£24 million will be available for the development and marketing of tourism through the Welsh Government Rural Communities – Rural Development Programme 2014 -2020.
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Measures to unlock brownfield land for thousands of homes across England
Councils in England will have new tools to speed up development of derelict and underused land for new homes as communities will be able to highlight local derelict or underused building sites that are primed for redevelopment using registers linked to the recently published Housing White Paper.
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Join UNESCO’s World Heritage Volunteers 2017 campaign: Heritage in our hands
The World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) 2017 campaign, Heritage in our hands, will take stock of the progress made over the past ten years to mobilise youth to preserve and promote World Heritage by reaching out to their peers and their communities.
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‘HESPR @30+’ as IHBC’s heritage business listing passes 30!
HESPR, the IHBC’s heritage business listing formally recognised by lead heritage such as Historic England, is the institute’s promotional and quality assurance service for businesses that work to conservation and service standards expected by the institute, and recent new arrivals to the listing brings the total past 30!
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Reminder deadline 18 April for IHBC member opportunity for HS2
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IHBC members: HE wants your help to ‘Enrich the List’ and support all our heritage care and management
The Historic England (HE) ‘Enrich the list’ programme opens access to information sources that support the management and care of listed buildings and structures, and IHBC members are especially encouraged to share their knowledge and enhance care for our heritage by helping to ‘Enrich the list’.
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IHBC consultation response to HE’s revision of Maintenance and Repair of Traditional Farm Buildings
The IHBC has submitted its response to the consultation draft from Historic England (HE) on its revision of The Maintenance and Repair of Traditional Farm Buildings, aimed at offering practical advice to farmers and other users, noting among numerous detailed comments that ‘Changes within this guidance emphasise the landscape and setting context of traditional farm buildings.’
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UN Security Council adopts historic resolution for the protection of heritage
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted the historic resolution 2347 – the first ever resolution adopted by the Security Council to focus on Cultural heritage – in which it ‘Deplores and condemns the unlawful destruction of cultural heritage, inter alia destruction of religious sites and artefacts, as well as the looting and smuggling of cultural property from archaeological sites, museums, libraries, archives, and other sites, in the context of armed conflicts, notably by terrorist groups…’
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£40M cash boost for England’s coast
Over 30 exciting new projects are set to create new jobs, attract tourists and boost economic growth – including improvements to the Grade II listed pier at Southport and the transformation of a partly derelict green space and seafront promenade into a visitor destination that celebrates cultural heritage and location at Lowestoft – as communities up and down England’s coast are set to benefit from a £40 million cash boost.
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England’s new measures to unlock brownfield land
Councils will have new tools to speed up development of derelict and underused land for new homes according to Housing and Planning Minister Gavin Barwell.
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Councillors reject plans for student housing behind Mac due to possible WHS bid
Councillors in Glasgow have rejected controversial plans – recommended by officers – for a student accommodation block next to Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Category A-listed Glasgow School of Art, with reasons including that it ‘could harm a future bid for World Heritage Site (WHS) status for the GSA.’
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Hidden menace threatens fabric of historic homes
English Heritage, warned yesterday that what has been a perennial headache is to become worse, with the estimated numbers of household moths at its properties doubling in the past five years.
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IHBC member opportunity for HS2: ‘Enabling Works Supplier Day’, 3 May, VOX, Birmingham – registration deadline 18 April
The IHBC and the Supply Chain team at HS2 (High Speed 2) are inviting IHBC members to an HS2 ‘Enabling Works Supplier Day’ on 3 May at the VOX, Birmingham, with Tuesday 18 April the deadline for registering interest.
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