image for illustration: Chris Allen / Dolby Flint Mill, Lytton Street, Stoke on Trent / CC BY-SA 2.0
Stoke-on-Trent has become the first city in the UK to declare a heritage emergency, calling for urgent investment to protect its most significant heritage sites as it seeks £325 million in public and private investment over the next decade.
Continue readingNominations for the 2026 Plowden Medal Conservation Award are open until Friday 15th May 2026, so if you know of any talented conservators in any field, who deserve recognition for their work, please consider nominating them and sharing the details with your network.
Continue readingUnderstanding how a community and its people think and feel about their heritage is a vital part of regeneration work: heritage isn’t just about places and things… it’s about what they mean to us and this is what’s known as ‘felt experience’, argues The Heritage Fund.
Continue readingA new publication summarises the key findings from the annual 2024/25 Community Life Survey.
Continue readingThe Infrastructure Strategy sets out a ten-year framework (2027 to 2037) to guide infrastructure planning, investment, and delivery across Scotland.
Continue readingIHBC members should have received their invitation from our President, Rebecca Thompson, to join in our new-style and ‘members-only’ online Council from 4.30pm on 8 April, when, as well as Charters & much more, we start to ‘investigate conservation roles and services in local government’ – part of our 3rd Parliamentary Commitment.
Continue readingThe IHBC has welcomed National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), the week-long celebration that brings together businesses and apprentices to shine a light on the positive impact that apprenticeships make to individuals, businesses and the wider economy.
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Know any emerging practitioners who’ve shown accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, AND/OR Retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities: Nominate them NOW for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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The IHBC is delighted to announce that booking of Full School places is now open for the IHBC Annual School 2026, in Newcastle, from 18–20 June, exploring ‘Adaptive Reuse’ with conservation professionals from across the UK and beyond over three days of learning, discussion, and networking.
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The IHBC has recently secured permission to seek a Charter while delivery of our 5 Parliamentary Commitments is under way and Branch Consultants are in place, and much more too, so we’re now calling for volunteers to help, and grow your skills with us!
Continue readingNew Government’ Guidance on Managing Surplus Government Property’ is replacing the previous ‘Guide for the Disposal of Surplus Land’.
Continue readingThe IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members our exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s tender taster for NewsBlog readers this week from a heritage membership body for a Chief Executive, to 28/02/2026.
Continue readingResidents of the UK’s most expensive flats have won a court case over defective pipework – and if their homes are shoddily built, what hope do the rest of us have, asks Phineas Harper in The Guardian?
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Image for illustration: Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room © Acabashi; Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0; Source: Wikimedia Commons
The 1960s Southbank Centre – including the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall etc, have been listed Grade II.
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Image for illustration: Heritage Street Bridge on the Digbeth Canal by Phillip Jeffrey, CC-BY-SA-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has announced that an additional £6.5 million government funding to help build long-term resilience across the canal network.
Continue readingSPAB has announced the 2026 cohort of SPAB Fellows and Scholars.
Continue readingA new £11.59 million government fund to help civil society organisations and local authorities work together has been announced.
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Image: Beth Chatto Gardens, Essex © Historic England Archive
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) and Historic England (HE) have launched an online survey targeted at managers of Parks and Gardens across the UK
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Image for illustration: The White House by DJTechYT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A federal judge sceptical that about the legal authority to construct President Donald Trump’s massive new ballroom without express authorization from Congress.
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IHBC’s newest CPD Circular, which lists accessible and cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) on our networks, has been simplified, with tighter ties to our Events Calendar, colour coding of provider categories.
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Continue readingThe IHBC is delighted to announce that booking of Full School places is now open for the IHBC Annual School 2026, in Newcastle, from 18–20 June, exploring ‘Adaptive Reuse’ with conservation professionals from across the UK and beyond over three days of learning, discussion, and networking.
Continue readingThe IHBC has recently secured permission to seek a Charter while delivery of our 5 Parliamentary Commitments is under way and Branch Consultants are in place, and much more too, so we’re now calling for volunteers to help, and grow your skills with us!
Continue readingKnow any emerging practitioners who’ve shown accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, AND/OR Retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities: Nominate them NOW for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
Continue readingThe introduction of ‘grey belt’ has been one of the most debated changes made to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in December 2024 while an article from Turley consultants considers what has been learned from its first year in operation and what impact it has had so far.
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