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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- 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 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
- IHBC joins 33 leading organisations calling for £6.8M in urgent funding to support Planning Schools 10/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 10/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Management’ signpost): AJ on legal challenge to Barbican demolition… which ‘can proceed’ 10/10/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments… to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’ 10/10/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 10/10/2025
- £214m new funding for Welsh communities to improve neighbourhoods and restore pride 10/10/2025
- RICS calls for expressions of interest for pilot programmes of new professional pathways 10/10/2025
- RTPI launches five-year strategy to elevate planning: Empower 2030 10/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Donovan Rypkema & Heritage Strategies International seek input on ‘measuring in Arts, Culture, and Heritage’ 10/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 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
Tag Archives: fire
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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