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- IHBC’s December ‘CPD Circular’ now out: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events & resources, with Branch & National AGMs, Surgeries, CPD Partnerships & more 28/11/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 28/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ & ‘Management ‘ Signpost: DB’s ‘brief outline of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’, with terms, and amendments 28/11/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £2.4M+ of weekly works: BC seeks review of Conservation Areas, to £50K 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Two companies fined total of £190k for unauthorised Grade I listed building works following BNES council prosecution 28/11/2025
- Government consultation: ‘Reforms to the statutory consultee system’, to 13/01/2026 28/11/2025
- Gardens Trust on ‘Government Consultation on Removal of the Gardens Trust as a Statutory Consultee’ 28/11/2025
- NLHF launches Future Heritage Leadership Programme, open to 10/12, starting March 2026 28/11/2025
- As UK City of Culture 2029 opens, new ‘UK Town of Culture’ competition – to shine a spotlight on towns – opens soon too 28/11/2025
- UK Parliamentary Cttee. launches International Climate Policy Inquiry, ‘on UK climate policy and finance’, seeking evidence, to 7/01/2026 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European Heritage Excellence Day 2025 spotlights innovation, creativity and community engagement 28/11/2025
- PAS 28/11/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost from Sheehan Quirke via Open Culture: ‘How did the world get so ugly?’ 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (duplicate) doorstep’: Plans for first Iron Age broch ‘in 2000 years’ approved for Highlands 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep’: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF 25/11/2025
- ‘Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ – with ‘nature as essential to sustaining growth and a healthy society’ 25/11/2025
- HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc. 25/11/2025
- Government’s Pride in Place: Strategy update 25/11/2025
- Winners of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards announced! 25/11/2025
- Joining the dots: A single EDI portal for the sector 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome 25/11/2025
Tag Archives: heritage
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (global) doorstep’: Fire hits historic church on Northern Chile coast
image for illustration Fire tears through historic church of San Francisco in Iquique on Northern Chile coast, reports Yahoo News.
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IHBC@ICOMOS-CIF’s anniversary Symposium with RIBA, ‘Peace and War: Educating for Conservation or for Reconstruction?, blended from Venice, 4-6/11
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Among those exploring the ICOMOS-CIF 2024 Symposium on 4-6 November, on ‘… Educating for Conservation…’, led by Cristina González-Longo, ICOMOS CIF President, and celebrating its 40th anniversary with the RIBA, will be IHBC Director Séan … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1M+ of weekly works: Trust seeks design & build heritage-linked services, to 11/11, and £39K+
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is a call from a Welsh Trust for design … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Portsmouth) doorstep’ 1: Bid to list Portsmouth’s Civic Offices fails as campaigners fear demolition
image for illustration: Portsmouth, Civic Offices by Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Disappointment has been expressed after a bid to have Portsmouth’s civic offices listed failed – which it is feared will pave the way for its … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Portsmouth) doorstep’ 2: Cathedral wins £118K Lottery funds for Visitor Experience space
Portsmouth Cathedral has announced it has been awarded nearly £118,000 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform the visitor experience within the Cathedral.
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MHCLG Demolition and retrofit survey launched to inform England’s National Planning Policy: Open to 31/10
image for illustration A new survey from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) on the future of national planning policy, specifically regarding the demolition, redevelopment, and retrofit of buildings, has been launched.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (global) doorstep’: Implosion brings down Tropicana casino in Vegas to make way for baseball stadium
image for illustration: The Tropicana, Las Vegas by Matthäus Wander, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Las Vegas — Sin City – said goodbye to the Tropicana in an elaborate implosion that demolished ‘the last true mob building on the … Continue reading
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IHBC responds to consultation on changes to England’s NPPF
The IHBC has submitted its response to the consultation on government reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
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IHBC@ICOMOS-CIF’s anniversary Symposium with RIBA, ‘Peace and War: Educating for Conservation or for Reconstruction?, blended from Venice, 4-6/11
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Among those exploring the ICOMOS-CIF 2024 Symposium on 4-6 November, on ‘… Educating for Conservation…’, led by Cristina González-Longo, ICOMOS CIF President, and celebrating its 40th anniversary with the RIBA, will be IHBC Director Séan … Continue reading
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: AJ FOI reveals ‘Hundreds of damaging changes… to heritage buildings’
IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, featuring an Architects’ Journal (AJ) report investigation revealing ‘Hundreds of damaging changes… to heritage … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep’: ‘Liverpool Council greenlights ‘iconic’ Littlewoods Studios plans
image for illustration: Littlewoods Building by Peter Hodge / View from the top of the Anglican Cathedral Tower, Liverpool – Wikimedia Commons Liverpool City Council’s planning committee has approved plans to transform the iconic former Littlewoods building in Liverpool into a … Continue reading
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AHF: Grant funding for community-led heritage regeneration projects in Northern Ireland
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) grant programme for community-led heritage regeneration projects in Northern Ireland.
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Regulations made to support the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023
The bulk of the new secondary legislation needed to support the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (‘the 2023 Act’) was made on 9 September when Jane Hutt MS, the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip, signed … Continue reading
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Climate Heritage Network launches ‘Imaging Futures’ $1.25Mn Mellon Foundation Grant
The Climate Heritage Network (CHN) has launched ‘Imaging Futures’ Futures Project with a US$ 1,250,000 Mellon Foundation Grant while additional funding from the National Geographic Society, 1772 foundation, and Aliph Foundation brings to $1,500,000 initial funding for the new project.
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RIBA announces shortlist for Reinvention Award 2024… includes Park Hill Phase 2 & Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings
image for illustration: IHBC Context RIBA announces shortlist for ‘Reinvention Award 2024: Transformative Designs’ showcases the potential of retrofitting.
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NLHF supports sustainable future for the Victorian Society
The Victorian Society has welcomed support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to shape a sustainable future for the Society.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (global) doorstep’: Historic Canadian Doukhobor grain elevator restoration underway
image of Veregin Pray House (part of the National Doukhobor Heritage Village) by Billy Twin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Restoration of an historic Canadian grain elevator by the National Doukhobor Heritage Village is underway, to be completed when adequate … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes new CIfA CE Nathan Baker as Guest Judge for IHBC Student Award 2024: Selecting the next ‘Gus Astley’ winner, who’ll receive £500 + Shrewsbury School place, 12-14 June 2025
The IHBC is delighted to welcome Nathan Baker, new Chief Executive (CE) at the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), as our guest judge for IHBC’s 2024 Gus Astley Student Award, while his choice (& others) will receive certificates, cash prizes … Continue reading
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IHBC@ICOMOS-CIF’s anniversary Symposium, ‘Peace and War: Educating for Conservation or for Reconstruction?’, includes IHBC Director on awards and more, blended, from Venice, 4-6/11
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Among those exploring the ICOMOS-CIF 2024 Symposium on 4-6 November, on ‘… Educating for Conservation…’, led by Cristina González-Longo, ICOMOS CIF President, and celebrating its 40th anniversary with the RIBA, will be IHBC Director Séan … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1M+ of weekly works: Trust seeks design & build heritage services, to 1/11, and £616K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is a call from a Welsh Trust for design … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Edinburgh) doorstep’: ‘A Plaque Too Far’ – Cockburn Association decries Netflix plans for branded promo plaque to Rom-Com
image for illustration The Cockburn Association has criticised a proposed plaque – with a bright red background and white lettering – to ‘advertise’ Netflix’s ‘One Day’, romantic drama series based on the 2009 novel by David Nicholls.
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English Heritage calls on public to help find ‘lost’ London plaques
image for illustration English Heritage has called on the public to help find ‘lost’ London plaques with its ‘Have you seen this plaque?’ programme.
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European Urban Initiative: Autumn call for Peer Reviews is open to 13/11
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The European Urban Initiative (EUI) call for EUI Peer Reviews opens on 1 October and closes on 13 November.
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Don’t forget IHBC’s free ‘Publications by Members’ webpage posting: Just send us the details, for all member categories
The IHBC is delighted to remind members of the IHBC who have published books still in print that they can promote these for free on our ‘Members Publications’ web page: Just send the details to Peter Badcock at it@ihbc.org.uk.
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IHBC Council: Charles Mynors, online and on ‘Better legislation for the historic environment…’ – A Presidential invite exclusive to ALL member categories, Wednesday, 16 October, 4.00pm
IHBC’s President Mike Brown has opened an exclusive invitation to ALL members categories for a free CPD programme headlined by Dr Charles Mynors exploring ‘Better legislation for the historic environment – lessons from Cardiff Bay’, online from 4.00pm on Wednesday … Continue reading
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