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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: nature
IHBC on Context 182 (Part 3): IHBC’s Chair on ‘Trusteeship’ and what is NOT ‘hot air’ features in officer and network updates
The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal Context is out – No. 182 – and as ever includes a wide sweep of regular articles, with the current spotlight on IHBC Chair David McDonald’s inquiry into what is not ‘hot … Continue reading
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UK Government: Annual report for England’s Participation Survey – parks/gardens; cities/towns, & landscapes/habitat most popular
A new data release by government provides estimates from England on engagement in the digital, culture, media, and live sport sectors reported during the period of May 2023 to March 2024 (2023/24), with top reasons ‘To spend time with family/friends’ … Continue reading
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Wilts & Berks Canal Trust calls for volunteer engineers and planners to help on UK’s largest canal restoration project
image for illustration: Wilts & Berks Canal by Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust is calling on all Engineers and Planners to join the UK’s largest canal restoration project.
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IHBC’s April ‘CPD Circular’: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events, awards, calls and more, with Schools, School webinars, Sustainability, Branches & much more
IHBC’s April CPD Circular offers our current listing of accessible, cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) opportunities for historic and built environment conservation professionals and their networks, with the usual range of Branch and network events, publications, awards and more.
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: HE/EH on Climate Adaption, fourth round ‘Heritage’ Report
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Adaptation reports to Defra by the heritage sector are part of the fourth round of the adaptation reporting process under the Climate Change 2008 Act, and examine how heritage regulators and operators are … Continue reading
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New Towns inquiry launched by Lords Built Environment Committee: to 12/05
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The House of Lords Built Environment Committee has launched a modular inquiry into new towns and expanded settlements, taking evidence to 12 May 2025.
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UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard -The Pilot Version of the Standard has Launched!
The pilot version of the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard has launched.
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IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories)
The IHBC is has agreed a 10% discount for all members on West Dean’s celebrated and specialist Conservation courses (see terms, conditions and code below).
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Booking opens for #IHBCShrewsbury2025, 12-14/06: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online), free pre-conference webinars and more, for all your conservation needs…’
Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s double-up – DB ICOMOS-UK’s hybrid Sustainability conference (11/04) + Planning and Infrastructure Bill responses
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 Designing Buildings (DB) on the ICOMOS-UK blended Sustainability conference, ‘… … Continue reading
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Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, while posts from charities get c.25% off
To connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts, and telling your boss about our targeted subsidies for adverts, outlined below, … Continue reading
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Booking opens for #IHBCShrewsbury2025, 12-14/06: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online), free pre-conference webinars and more, for all your conservation needs…’
Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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IHBC sponsors ‘Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’: Joint ICOMOS-UK/University of Liverpool conference, 11 April – ‘Be part of this important conversation’, in-person or online
‘Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’ is a joint ICOMOS-UK and University of Liverpool hybrid event supported by the IHBC and with three main themes: Forging partnerships…; Navigating… heritage sustainability, and Education and skills…, all on 11 April.
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IHBC’s 2024 Gus Astley Student Award winners and prizes announced: Ailsa Bailey wins top Award, with Highly Commended and Booth-Bird CMP prizes too
The winners of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards for 2024 have been selected by guest judge Nathan Baker, former CEO of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), with winners offered free places at the Annual School in Shrewsbury – … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Legislation and Policy’ Signpost: Government publishes advice on Green Belt
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The Government has published new advice on the role of the Green Belt in the planning system, including advice on assessing Green Belt to identify grey belt land.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £4.3M+ of weekly works: City Council creating a Framework Agreement, to 15/04.
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 City Council creating a … Continue reading
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HES: Skills Investment Plan for the Historic Environment in Scotland
image for illustration: HES The Skills Investment Plan (SIP) for Scotland recognises the need to support our workforce and to nurture their skills, knowledge, expertise, and personal qualities.
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IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: IHBC supports Gardens Trust Assembly, Cowcross St, 03/04, on ‘… the UK Planning Systems’, with 15% off for IHBC members
The IHBC is delighted to support the Gardens Trust Assembly on ‘Historic Parks and Gardens in the UK Planning Systems’, in person at Cowcross Street, London on 3 April, with a special 15% reduction for members (see dedicated code below).
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IHBC’s #IHBCShrewsbury2025 School pre-conference (and free!) webinars: Accessible & engaging learning for all (and special CPD for Conservation Professionals) with STBA & IHBC – Natural Materials in Retrofit on 7 April
Following on from the launch of the 2025 Annual School and the linked pre-conference CPD in Redruth on 13 March, the IHBC is delighted to announce a series of online lunchtime webinars across a variety of topics that relate to … Continue reading
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IHBC sponsors ‘Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’: Joint ICOMOS-UK/University of Liverpool conference, 11 April – ‘Be part of this important conversation’, in-person or online
‘Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’ is a joint ICOMOS-UK and University of Liverpool hybrid event supported by the IHBC and with three main themes: Forging partnerships…; Navigating… heritage sustainability, and Education and skills…, all on 11 April.
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Restoring Scotland’s natural environment
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Scotland’s Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill update explores ‘Restoring Scotland’s natural environment -New targets to enhance nature and protect biodiversity’.
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Wildlife and Countryside Link on BNG: Lack of ambition on Biodiversity Net Gain leaves scheme missing the mark one year on
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Wildlife and Countryside Link research into the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) scheme suggests it needs to be strengthened.
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Centre for Cities, on a ‘flexible zoning system’ for England to replace the discretionary
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Centre for Cities has produced a briefing arguing that the Government’s bold planning reforms and growth mission can both be achieved by replacing England’s discretionary system with a new flexible zoning system, and … Continue reading
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Building new towns for the future: Government’s Interim update on the new towns programme
‘Building new towns for the future’ offers government’s New Town Taskforce’s ‘Interim update on the new towns programme’.
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IHBC’s 2024 Gus Astley Student Award winners and prizes announced: Ailsa Bailey wins top Award, with Highly Commended and Booth-Bird CMP prizes too
The winners of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards for 2024 have been selected by guest judge Nathan Baker, former CEO of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), with winners offered free places at the Annual School in Shrewsbury – … Continue reading
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