-
Search the archive
-
IHBC’S NewsBlogs usually only summarise third party reports. Links to other sites may not be active so you may need to contact the host site for the original text.
Unless made explicit, IHBC NewsBlogs are not IHBC endorsements.
Categories
Monthly archive
Links
-
Recent posts
- 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: fire
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’:Police warning on dangers of entering fire damaged Woolton Hall
Officers in Woolton are urging parents and guardians to warn their children about the dangers of going into Woolton Hall after it suffered extensive fire damage.
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, fire, heritage, safety
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’:Police warning on dangers of entering fire damaged Woolton Hall
UK and Ireland architectural institutes unite for fire and life safety design guidance
The architectural professional institutes of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland have formed a coordinated body – the Belfast Group – to ensure that architects across the UK and the Republic of Ireland have standardised guidance … Continue reading
Posted in Sector NewsBlog
Tagged architecture, expertise, fire, Ireland, professional, safety, UK
Comments Off on UK and Ireland architectural institutes unite for fire and life safety design guidance
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Developer’s ‘heartbreak’ as Raven hotel in Droitwich Spa is gutted by fire
image for illustration: Raven Hotel, Droitwich by anya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A developer ‘heartbroken’ over an alleged arson attack on a historic former hotel, the Raven at Droitwich Spa has pledged to protect its heritage, reports … Continue reading
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, conservation, expertise, fire, heritage
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Developer’s ‘heartbreak’ as Raven hotel in Droitwich Spa is gutted by fire
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Update on state of Woolton Hall building after devastating fire
image for illustration: Woolton Hall, Liverpool – J. P. Neale(Life time: 1847), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Woolton Hall has been destroyed throughout and every floor of the manor house has collapsed after a fire tore through it, reports The … Continue reading
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, conservation, fire, heritage
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Update on state of Woolton Hall building after devastating fire
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Moderator visits ‘landmark’ Cumbernauld church devastated by fire
image for illustration: G Laird / St Mungo’s Church of Scotland To support the devastated congregation the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland visited the ruins of St Mungo’s Church in Cumbernauld, Alan Reiach’s iconic church destroyed by … Continue reading
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, conservation, expertise, fire, heritage, Scotland
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Moderator visits ‘landmark’ Cumbernauld church devastated by fire
IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: SHN on ‘student accommodation near to Glasgow School of Art called in’
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 Scottish Housing News that Glasgow student accommodation plans near to … Continue reading
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, fire, government, heritage, nature, planning, skills
Comments Off on IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: SHN on ‘student accommodation near to Glasgow School of Art called in’
Engine Shed on ‘Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders’
A Engine Shed publication offers a short guide to ‘Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders’.
Posted in Sector NewsBlog
Tagged fire, guidance, legislation, policy, safety
Comments Off on Engine Shed on ‘Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders’
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Major Fire at Edwardian Busbridge Hall, Godalming, after BBQ sparks blaze
A serious fire has broken out at Busbridge Hall in Godalming after a BBQ spread to a room of the property, prompting a large-scale emergency response involving fire crews from three counties, reports UK News in Pictures.
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep: ‘It survived two World Wars…’ – Heartbreak as Manchester’s Hotspur Press left a smouldering ruin
image for illustration: Hotspur Press on Fire by Jotaht, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons On 24 June, people woke up with the tragic realisation that one of Manchester’s oldest and most symbolic buildings the Hotspur Press has been destroyed, … Continue reading
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, fire, heritage
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep: ‘It survived two World Wars…’ – Heartbreak as Manchester’s Hotspur Press left a smouldering ruin
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Old Sarum fire – Wiltshire Council ‘seeking legal advice’ in listed (& disputed) WW1 Hangar
Wiltshire Council has sought legal advice after fire engulfed a listed First World War hangar that was embroiled in a lengthy planning dispute, reports The Salisbury Journal.
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged conservation, expertise, fire, heritage, skills
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Old Sarum fire – Wiltshire Council ‘seeking legal advice’ in listed (& disputed) WW1 Hangar
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Old Sarum Airfield director ‘devastated’ over Hangar 3 fire
image for illustration: Hangar at Old Sarum Airfield by Jonathan Hutchins, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Old Sarum Airfield director Grenville Hodge says his company is ‘devastated’ after a fire tore through a historic aircraft hangar, reports the Salisbury Journal.
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, conservation, fire, heritage
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Old Sarum Airfield director ‘devastated’ over Hangar 3 fire
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (thatching) doorstep’: Woman ‘lost everything’ in Fortingall thatched cottage fire
A 74-year-old woman’s thatched cottage in Aberfeldy was destroyed in the blaze, reports STV news.
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, conservation, environment, fire, heritage, insurance, safety
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (thatching) doorstep’: Woman ‘lost everything’ in Fortingall thatched cottage fire
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (thatching) doorstep’: Thatched cottages in Devon’s Drewsteignton in flames
image for illustration A huge fire tore through three thatched cottages in Drewsteignton in Devon reports DevonLive.
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, conservation, fire, heritage
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (thatching) doorstep’: Thatched cottages in Devon’s Drewsteignton in flames
IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost, via DB: Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice, BS 9991:2024
Designing Buildings, host partner to IHBC’s Conservation Wiki, reports on BS 9991 ‘2024 Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice’ was published on 27 November 2024 to replace BS 9991:2015 ‘Fire safety in … Continue reading
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, environment, expertise, fire, safety, standards
Comments Off on IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost, via DB: Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice, BS 9991:2024
After Grenfell, UK government transfers fire responsibility from Home Office to MHCLG
The Prime Minister has announced that responsibility for fire will move from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the change will be effective from 1 April 2025.
Posted in Sector NewsBlog
Tagged building, environment, expertise, fire, government, planning, policy, safety
Comments Off on After Grenfell, UK government transfers fire responsibility from Home Office to MHCLG
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.
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged building, conservation, fire, heritage
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (global) doorstep’: Fire hits historic church on Northern Chile coast
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: The St. Anne’s Church fire in Toronto – a cautionary tale to preserve heritage
image for illustration Jack Rozdilsky of York University, Canada, looks to lessons following the St. Anne’s Church fire in Toronto, from moving activities to a GoFundMe campaign to support rebuilding, reports the Canadian Architect.
Posted in IHBC NewsBlog
Tagged art, conservation, culture, fire, heritage
Comments Off on IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: The St. Anne’s Church fire in Toronto – a cautionary tale to preserve heritage