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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
Lord Prior appointed as new construction minister
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Two Scottish WWII heritage sites win HLF funding
A boat that saved the lives of 600 stranded Allied troops at Dunkirk and a former prisoner of war camp will receive more than £1m for restoration work from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the BBC reports.
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Scarborough Futurist Theatre demolition approved
Plans to demolish a 1920s theatre have been approved by councillors amid an angry protest by more than 100 campaigners, according to the BBC.
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IHBC welcomes launch of CIOB’s construction Academy
The IHBC has welcomed the launch of a new training academy by Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), which is aimed at enhancing excellence and boosting productivity, noting especially that it includes a conservation remit.
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IHBC update: New voluntary Chair sought for Canal & River Trust’s Heritage Advisory Group, to succeed Sir Neil Cossons
The IHBC has been advised that Sir Neil Cossons, the present Chair of the Heritage Advisory Group of the Canal & River Trust, will be retiring this year and that the Trust is now looking for a new voluntary Chair to lead the group.
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Context CPD boost: Ruchill Hospital water tower – How to stabilise and repair a 10-story structure
The requirement to restore the severely decayed, Category A listed, hilltop Victorian water tower at the former Ruchill hospital in Glasgow, set a challenge to its structural engineers, says Ian Andrew.
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£480 million from private sources donated to England’s arts and culture
Arts Council England reports that private investment in arts and culture has grown over the last three years and appears to be becoming less reliant on public funding.
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AHF offered grants totalling £375k for UK projects
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has issued its 2015-16 annual report and highlights progress on its projects and its reform programme, which aims to reduce costs and strengthen its governance.
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DCMS: Sharing lessons from innovative cultural projects
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) report Countries of Culture: Funding and support for the arts outside London says that cultural projects support other policy areas and that best practice should be shared between local authorities.
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WSP – Parsons Brinckerhoff appointed to House of Commons’ Northern Estate Programme job
Professional services consultancy WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has been awarded the programme, project and cost management role for Parliament’s Northern Estate Programme (NEP).
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Heritage opinion: Cities pay price of austerity by selling their heritage
Across the country, architectural gems are being bought by developers to help cash-strapped local authorities, according to the Guardian.
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NBS opens National BIM Survey 2017
The seventh annual BIM survey from the NBS, the construction specification organisation, allows respondents to comment on the introduction of the Government’s 2016 BIM mandate, while no closing date is stated.
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How English public libraries can prosper in the 21st century
New report from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport provides advice to help English libraries make better use of their buildings and create a sustainable sector.
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IHBC welcomes members to 2017, the 50th anniversary of Conservation Area legislation, with IHBC funds still available for local civic celebrations
The IHBC welcomes members to 2017, the 50th anniversary year of Conservation Area legislation, with a reminder that there are funds still available in our Conservation Area Anniversary allocation to help locals celebrate their Conservation Areas and help communities understand more about their value and potential.
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IHBC challenges low fine of £20k in un-supported and illegal GII demolition – makes ‘demolition a viable development option!’
A man who ‘off his own bat’ demolished his Grade II listed cottage – Nutter Cote Farm in Yorkshire – has been fined £17,500 (with some £3000 in costs), a fine so low that the IHBC considers it could make such heritage demolition ‘a viable development option’ despite its criminality.
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IHBC’s ‘Top HESPR tender pick of the week’: Clare Castle Country Park, East Anglia: £20,000-£60,000
The IHBC’s commercial conservation services listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members weekly HESPR Bulletins that bring tender opportunities together into one handy resource, and the Director’s top pick for IHBC members this week features a call from Clare Castle Country Park for bids relating to an extensive programme of conservation work… required to preserve and bring to life the Park’s heritage assets, with a closing date for bids of 31 January, and valued at £20,000 – £60,000.
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Context CPD boost: Works of art in public places – How should we protect memory through national designation
Historic Environment Scotland is consulting about how to demonstrate how works of art and other objects in the environment are valued, say Barbara Cummins and Elizabeth McCrone in their recent article in IHBC’s Context No 147
Image – Bruce’s Stone © Crown Copyright: Historic Environment Scotland
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IHBC CPD boost for Wales: Retrofit Roadshow on Traditional Buildings – BRE, Constructing Excellence Wales and Edwards Hart
Two of the UK’s leading experts in the retrofitting of traditional buildings will deliver a series of IHBC CPD-recognised morning seminars across Wales with Constructing Excellence Wales in January and February 2017.
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Scotland’s conservation challenge No.1: 68% of Scotland’s traditionally built homes have disrepair to critical elements
The Scottish Government has issued its Scottish House Condition Survey 2015 that also found that 52% of Scotland’s homes have disrepair to critical elements and 44% of all dwellings failed to meet the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS).
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HE starts new debating series
Historic England (HE) has begun a new series where conservation and heritage experts can debate topical subjects.
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Construction output increases at fastest pace since March 16
Figures from Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index also show that new order growth reached an 11-month high in December, there has been a robust and accelerated upturn in new work but input cost inflation was at the highest level since April 2011.
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First ‘Garden villages’ (and towns) named with government support
England’s first ever developments to be called ‘garden villages’ – with the potential to deliver more than 48,000 homes – have been named and given government backing.
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CIOB promotes gender diversity with invitation to explore barriers at free networking in London: 31 January
To understand the barriers to people entering the CIOB’s Construction Manager of the Year Awards (CMYA), and to encourage those who might not previously have considered it, CIOB will be holding an evening networking event at the Building Centre in 26 Store Street, London on 31January 2017.
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Entry deadline for Planning Awards 2017 approaches: Includes heritage
The Planning Awards, run by Planning magazine in conjunction with PlanningResource and PlacemakingResource, are closing soon (deadline 19 January 2017).
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Professional Fellowships and fully- funded PhD studentships in heritage: Deadlines in Jan & Feb
Professional Fellowships are on offer at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles, to train emerging conservation professionals, with closing date of 31 January 2017, while the university Heritage Consortium (Bradford, Hull, Huddersfield, Leeds Beckett, Northumbria, Sheffield Hallam and Teesside universities) invites high-quality proposals for up to 14 PhD studentships tenable for three years from 1 October 2017, with a deadline of 5pm Monday 6th February 2017.
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