IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.13:Awardees of the 2024 King’s Award for Voluntary Service announced

Posted on 30/12/2024 by IHBC

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A fortunate 281 organisations throughout the United Kingdom are to receive The King’s Award for Voluntary Service in recognition of their outstanding community service.

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.14: Planning proposals get Britain building and turn the tide on nature’s decline

Posted on 30/12/2024 by IHBC

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A new approach to development and the environment will boost the number of homes being built, as developers will be able to pay into a new Nature Restoration Fund to meet their environmental obligations rather than negotiate on a scheme-by-scheme basis.

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.15: New skills hubs launched to get Britain building

Posted on 30/12/2024 by IHBC

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Thousands more apprentice construction workers will be hired each year to build homes and kickstart growth, through new skills hubs funded by industry leaders, government writes.

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.16: LGA, on ‘Almost 24,000 affordable houses lost in office-to-residential conversions’

Posted on 30/12/2024 by IHBC

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The Local Government Association (LGA) states that, in order ‘to deliver more housing of a decent standard, councils need the right powers, skills, resources and funding to act, and want to work with government and the development and housebuilding industry’.

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.17, featuring ‘Heritage from the (BID) doorstep’: From the home of #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – Shrewsbury’s BID High Street award said to boost trade and pride

Posted on 30/12/2024 by IHBC

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Shrewsbury’s Business Improvement District (BID) has said being named home of Britain’s best high street will bring in more visitors and create local pride, another reason to join IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 –in Shrewsbury on 12-14 June.

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.18, featuring ‘Heritage from the (civic) doorstep’, with Stoke Newington Town Hall officially ‘at risk’ after being vacant ‘for many years’

Posted on 30/12/2024 by IHBC

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A ‘government body’ – Historic England – has declared Hackney’s Stoke Newington Town Hall at risk of loss and in need of protection, reports Hackney Citizen.

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.19, and ‘Heritage on the global doorstep’: Dry stone wall construction added to UNESCO list of protected cultural heritages

Posted on 30/12/2024 by IHBC

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The practice of dry stone wall construction in Ireland has been added to UNESCO’s list of protected cultural heritages around the world.

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IHBC’s Christmas boost to Branch Committees’ infrastructure: Director’s first introductions to new ‘Branch Liaison & Support Consultants’

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

The IHBC’s Director Seán O’Reilly has written to representative Branch Committee Officers with initial introductions and contacts details for the new Branch Liaison and Support Consultants (BL&SC), our new way to help volunteers.

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IHBC welcomes HB&P’s digital 2024 Centenary issue of ‘Heritage Now’, including Edward Holland IHBC (& HESPR) on the ‘Village Alive Trust’

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

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Historic Buildings & Places (HB&P, formerly the Ancient Monuments Society) has issued a special digital issue of its Winter 2024 Heritage Now, packed with breathtaking photography, fascinating features, casework and the latest news, including Edward Holland IHBC – and HESPR member – on the ‘Village Alive Trust’.

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Join the IHBC’s next virtual Council with free CPD, open to all IHBC members: Tuesday 21 January, 4pm, includes ‘transferable lessons for all practitioners’

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

All categories of IHBC members – Supporters, Affiliates, Associates and Full Members – are invited to join the IHBC’s next free online Council for more relevant and topical CPD.

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IHBC’s ‘Intervention’ Signpost for Christmas: AJ’s top stories for 2024 – the ‘Country house’ clause, SM, salaries & Kevin

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

The Architects’ Journal (AJ) has looked back at some of its most-read stories from the year, including country houses, in-depth data on architects’ salaries, social media star practices, and taking work (or not) in Saudi Arabia… and Kevin too (NB: subscription only).

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IHBC’s Practice & Technology Signpost: Designing Buildings republishes CIOB’s ‘Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment’

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

Designing Buildings (DB) has published the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) paper on ‘Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment’.

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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC features Government on its ‘… overhaul of planning committees to get Britain building’

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

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’, and this week features government’s announcement on its ‘Major overhaul of planning committees to get Britain building.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Aberdeen’s Poundland launches historic move at new store – selling homes to the public

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

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Poundland has spent six years renovating its latest branch which opens this weekend – and it will include two firsts for the discount chain, reports Aberdeen Live News.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Southend Council threatens enforcement over Kursaal repairs

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

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The owner of Southend’s landmark Grade II Kursaal building was threatened with enforcement action and ordered to carry out urgent repairs, it has been revealed, reports the Basildon Canvey Southend Echo.

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A place to call home for 2025… & after – AHF supports affordable housing in Belfast building, focussed on ‘replicable projects’

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has awarded a Project Development Grant to East Belfast Mission to help develop 335 Newtownards Road into a social enterprise retail unit and affordable housing for individuals affected by homelessness.

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HE on ‘Contribution of the Heritage Sector to the Visitor Economy’

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

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Historic England (HE) has published its report on the ‘Contribution of the Heritage Sector to the Visitor Economy’

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Could you be the next Chair of the Gardens Trust? Register interest by 6 January

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

The Gardens Trust is looking to appoint a new Chair of Trustees to lead the Board, open to 6 January.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage on the global (COP29) doorstep’ 2: International definitions for low-carbon cement and concrete launched to fast-track green procurement

Posted on 24/12/2024 by IHBC

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International definitions for low carbon cement and concrete were launched at COP29, the Global Cement and Concrete Association – GCCA – reports, standards ‘crucial to providing a key reference point for…green cement and concrete across the world’.

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Join the IHBC’s next virtual Council with free CPD, open to all IHBC members: Tuesday 21 January, 4pm, includes ‘transferable lessons for all practitioners’

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

All categories of IHBC members – Supporters, Affiliates, Associates and Full Members – are invited to join the IHBC’s next free online Council for more relevant and topical CPD.

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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: New AXA UK research reveals areas of England most vulnerable to extreme weather

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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New research by AXA UK highlights the areas of England most vulnerable to climate risks posed by extreme weather, with more than half of those polled admitting they would be ill-equipped to deal with flooding or heat damage to their homes.

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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £3.1M+ of weekly works: Council seeks qualified architect for GI LB works etc., to 27/01/25 & £200K

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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 Council for a qualified heritage architect to for works to a Grade I listed building (GI LB) with re-landscaping and more, to 27/01/2025 and £200K.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep’: Heritage Strategy to protect, preserve & enhance Stirling’s historic assets

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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A strategy to secure the future of Stirling’s historic assets has been approved by Stirling Council.

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RIBA, RTPI, CIOB and RICS call for exemptions to Level 7 apprenticeships changes

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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A joint statement between RIBA, RTPI, CIOB and RICS has called for Built environment Level 7 apprenticeships to be exempt from funding reforms as they are ’vital to help address skills shortages and meet the Government’s growth commitments’.

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HE & partners’ ACHTaxonomies Research Project seeks evidence, participants etc. to ‘articulate the economic value of heritage’

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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The ACHTaxonomiesproject, led by Historic England (HE) and partners, looks to develop a framework and linked taxonomies to better articulate the value of arts, culture and heritage on an economic platform, seeks assistance.

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