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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
CPRE, NT & more: Planning for the Future to protect National Parks
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SHBT’s approach to sustainable heritage: Using old spaces
The Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) has issued a call for community projects to use spaces the Custom House in Leith (deadline 31 January 2017).
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New edition of Historic England Research published
The fourth edition of Historic England Research reports on projects and activities involving applied research into the historic environment.
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NCT launches Maintenance Grants
The National Churches Trust (NCT) has launched a Maintenance Grants programme to fund work up to £2,500 with a deadline for the first round of grants of 4 January 2017.
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SPAB’s damp guidance: Fighting Damp
As part of its recent National Maintenance Week campaign, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) has published a quick guide to damp busting.
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2017 Museums + Heritage ‘restoration/conservation’ award open
The Restoration or Conservation category is now accepting entries for projects ranging from single objects through to entire buildings (closing date 1 February 2017).
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IHBC Marsh Awards 2017 launched: Nominations for retired IHBC members and new heritage learners, closing end March 2017
The IHBC’s new Marsh Awards programme, developed in partnership with the Marsh Christian Trust, has entered its second year with the launch of the 2017 Awards, celebrating retired IHBC members and successful learners in heritage practice, with prizes that include £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s Annual School, with a closing date of 31 March 2017.
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IHBC asks: Help assess NPPF impacts on conservation – closing 19 December
Historic England (HE) has launched a survey to obtain an understanding of whether planning decisions in general are consistent with law and policy and having the desired effect of protecting and enhancing the historic environment, with the survey closing on 19 December.
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IHBC expresses sadness and concern at closure of Civic Trust Cymru and hopes for a replacement body
On 1 December the Board of Trustees of Civic Trust Cymru announced the closure of the organisation ‘with immediate effect’ due to ‘irresolvable issues with an inherited pension deficit’, news met with considerable sadness and concern by partner bodies such as the IHBC, which also voiced hopes for a replacement body in the near future.
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IHBC’s ‘Top HESPR tender pick of the week’: Better evidence base for impact assessment of planning reforms, Historic England, £45,000-£55,000 and closing 04/01
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 Historic England for bids to create a ‘Better evidence base to understand the impact… of recent planning reforms, with a closing date of 4 January and valuation of £45,000-£55,000.
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IHBC CPD boost: New technology reveals monks’ cemetery and evidence of burial rituals at NT’s Fountains Abbey
Ground penetrating radar reveals more than 500 graves of Cistercian monks and lay brothers who once lived at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, now cared for by the National Trust (NT).
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Heritage complexities: Wrexham Grove Park school’s listed status reinstated by Welsh Government
A High Court decision to strip a former school of its Grade-II listed status so it could be demolished has been reversed by the Welsh Government.
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GII* listed Whitechapel Bell Foundry up for sale
The Grade II* listed Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which opened in 1570 and made Big Ben – and is in the Guinness Book of World Records as Britain’s oldest manufacturing company – as the company’s owner Alan Hughes said he hoped to have found a buyer by the time he retires in May.
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Art History A-levels saved, Archaeology etc. still threatened
The BBC reports that campaigners for art history A-level say they are ‘absolutely thrilled’ by a late decision to save the subject, which was set to be discontinued, as now exam board Pearson has confirmed plans to develop the new history of art A-level for teaching from next September, while the fight for archaeology is to reach the floor of Parliament.
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King’s Cross GII listed Gasholder No 8 wins lighting award
The Grade II listed structure at King’s Cross in London has won the Best Lighting Scheme at the FX Awards.
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Paddington Cube gains permission despite heritage critique
Westminster Council has given permission for a £775 million 14-storey Renzo Piano ‘Paddingtoon Cube’ block, though SAVE Britain’s Heritage calls the project ‘outrageously and gratuitously overscaled’
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DCLG: Improving LPA performance – updated criteria
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has updated its criteria for assessing local planning authority (LPA) performance in determining applications for major and non-major development.
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University sector annual maintenance costs reach £2bn a year
A new report on the UK’s university estate reports £2bn of annual maintenance costs alongside more than £2.75bn capital expenditure, as the total university estate has grown by 200,000 metres over the previous year to meet the demands of staff and students.
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A collective memorial of place, recorded through virtual reality, from UCL developers
Developers at University College London (UCL) are using software to record and combine the past, present and future architectures of the city, with the first project recording the stories of local residents, some of whom will lose their homes, communities and workplaces as High Speed 2 progresses.
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IHBC welcomes final data sets for Heritage Counts 2016: Featuring heritage branding
The IHBC has welcomed the release of England’s new suite of heritage indicators by 
Historic England, the final part of its Heritage Counts programme for 2016, with the theme for this year focussing on heritage branding of places.
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IHBC consultation response: Managing Heritage Assets – A Guide for Local Government
Historic England consulted on this document with a selected group of stakeholders, including the IHBC, with the IHBC Consultation Panel findings including that the document should refer to BS 7913: 2013 and better reflect the English Heritage advice on Disposal of Heritage Assets: Guidance note for government departments and non-departmental public bodies.
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IHBC Context CPD boost: Keeping up the falling down – on Wimpole and how to conserve a structure designed as a ruin
The construction of Wimpole Gothic Tower was overseen by James Essex and Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, but its restoration raised the question of how to conserve a structure designed as a ruin, says Karen Teideman-Barrett in her recent article in IHBC’s Context No 146.
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Are you ‘wiki-interested’ in the best cinema architecture in the UK? Let IHBC know… and DBW too!
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), the IHBC’s open platform for our Conservation Wiki, has highlighted some of the best examples of cinema architecture in the UK, but do any others deserve to be on the list?
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Empty Homes: Government should place greater priority on tackling empty homes
The Empty Homes charity has found that 83% of British adults believe the Government should place a higher priority on tackling empty homes, an increase from 78% from two years ago.
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CLG Committee: Park management and funding models examined
The Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee has examined innovative management and funding models for parks.
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