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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
Cheshire design consultancy works on NT’s HLF-funded Quarry Bank brief
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Hudson Heritage Awards 2017 – winners revealed
Penelope, Viscountess Cobham, CBE, chairman of VisitEngland, presented the awards at Goldsmiths Hall in London on 14 March.
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Bothy-bagging: Scotland’s best-kept secrets revealed
Bothies – remote shelters in the wilderness where walkers can spend the night free of charge – have long been one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets. A new book has revealed the location of 80 of the mountain huts.
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Norfolk’s neolithic flint mines at Grime’s Graves open new pit to public
English Heritage’s Grime’s Graves, identified about 150 years ago as neolithic flint mines, has opened a second pit to visitors who will be winched deep underground to see the 4,000-year-old site where Neolithic miners used antlers to hack out flint.
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Know a great learner? Congratulate with an IHBC Marsh Award nomination – closing 31 March
The IHBC’s new Marsh Awards programme has entered its second year, and includes the celebration of successful learning in heritage activities, with prizes of £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s Annual School (closing date 31 March 2017).
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IHBC Course Connection Day 2016 – Videos offer first hand insights to students’ diverse philosophies
The IHBC’s ‘Conservation Course Connection Day’ (CCCD) is the institute’s main annual event supporting conservation students, and recently posted videos of the most recent day, in Birmingham in November 2016, demonstrated a healthy diversity of conservation perspectives among early career practitioners.
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IHBC East Anglia offers no-frills CPD on ‘Traditional Repairs’ Day! 16 May – Orchard Barn restoration project
The IHBC’s East Anglia Branch has organised a one-day workshop ‘traditional repairs’ – with talks and hands-on experience of lime plaster, wattle and daub, clay lump and timber frame repair –on 16 May at Orchard Barn, Suffolk.
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IHBC’s CPD boost: Context on the 2016 School tours – Thursday
The 2016 Annual School’s Thursday tours visited different sites in Worcester and considered how conservation and heritage can been seen in the city today, so you were there or not, you can reflect on the experience through write-ups in Context, as you ask yourself ‘Can I afford to miss Manchester 2017’.
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Cadw: Emergency interventions at Ruthin Castle
The Welsh Government’s historic environment service, Cadw, has stepped in to undertake emergency stabilisation works at Ruthin Castle, before large parts of this significant historic site are lost.
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Scotland’s special themed tourism years unveiled
It has been confirmed that Scotland’s themed Years’ tourism programme will continue beyond 2018, with built and cultural heritage continuing as a central feature.
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£200,000 funding to help ‘transform planning system’ across UK
A mix of nine small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and local planning authorities from across the UK have been selected by Future Cities Catapult to receive £200,000 to transform outdated planning systems.
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MPs seek to cut £3.5bn bill for Houses of Parliament repairs
The Treasury select committee has queried the cost of building work and is investigating if a temporary shutdown can be avoided.
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Belfast Victorian baths become hi-tech co-working space
The BBC reports that the listed Ormeau Baths building in Belfast is to become a co-working space for freelancers and small businesses.
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IHBC handed ‘Keys to…Historic Buildings’: Somerset House, 3 May – CIOB and NT
Courtesy of the organisers the IHBC will host a stand at the joint National Trust (NT) and CIOB event entitled ‘Keys to the successful operation of historic buildings’, to take place on 3 May in Somerset House.
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IHBC’s bursary bounty: ‘Money’s not the barrier’ to the IHBC’s 2017 School on ‘Transport Infrastructure’ – £5000+ available for practitioners & learners…
The IHBC reminds anyone with an interest in heritage that the IHBC is here to help those in need of support for learning, so if you need help to attend the IHBC’s 2017 School in Manchester in June be sure to look to our bursary support as soon as possible.
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Southwark Council Article 4 on all pubs offers protection from PD rights
An Article 4 direction from Southwark Council means that any changes to pubs in the areas will have to go through the planning process rather than benefit from Permitted Development (PD) rights, so the council – as well as the local community – will be able to have a say on any proposed changes.
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CV: Donald Insall Associates on ‘50 years of Conservation Areas’
Civic Voice (CV) reports that Tony Barton, chair of Donald Insall Associates, has written an article on 50 years of Conservation Areas for the Architects Journal.
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Judge refuses bid for review of permission for block of flats in historic area
A crowdfunded attempt to take Plymouth City Council to judicial review over a planning application has been thrown out on the papers as ‘wholly unarguable’.
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Big Lottery funding for new Galston community hub
Plans to turn a former hotel and Grade B listed building into a thriving community hub for the people of Galston, East Ayrshire are more likely now thanks to a Big Lottery Fund award of £328,579, to Galston Community Development Trust to help develop the community owned former Portland Arms building at the heart of the town centre.
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Company to fight plans for Heritage Centre at quarry
The boss of a firm hoping to build a flats complex on the edge of Rubislaw Quarry has vowed to fight to prevent a granite heritage centre being built at the site.
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Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act receives Royal Assent: 23 February
The passing of this legislation is seen by many as bringing to an end the failure of successive UK governments to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
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New app reveals secrets of London’s ‘ghost signs’ of past commerce (wiki)
The BBC has featured a phone app has been created to give users a guided tour of some of London’s best ‘ghost signs’, faded branding and advertising markings found on the sides of buildings across the capital.
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IHBC-STBA update to Bonfield: Make ‘Each Home Count’ with ‘Different but Complementary’ approach to traditional fabric
In a well-received and incisive presentation to an audience that included Peter Bonfield, John Preston, IHBC’s Green Panel Chair and Heritage Chair of the STBA, called for traditional buildings to be given a ‘Different but Complementary’ approach in Bonfield’s ‘Each Home Counts’ plans for domestic energy use and provision.
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New cases and updates on IHBC’s LB Prosecutions Database
A recent update of the IHBC’s Listed Building (LB) prosecutions database has resulted in nearly 10 new cases being added to the listing, as well as an overhaul of the contents.
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IHBC’s ‘Top HESPR pick’: Historic England on Suffolk’s WW1 memorials –closing 14/03
The IHBC’s commercial conservation services listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members weekly Bulletins that bring tender and other opportunities together into one handy resource, while the Director’s top pick for IHBC members this week features a call for a service to carry out listing assessments of c.200 World War 1 (WW1) memorials in Suffolk, closing 14 March.
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