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- IHBC talks NPPF… on Tuesday 1 Sept, from 4PM: Join in the online discussion of the new Policy Framework and its implications 28/08/2026
- IHBC reports disappointment with ‘unjustified’ statutory role terminations for Theatres & Gardens Trusts 28/08/2026
- LAST CHANCE FOR IHBC’s 2026 Gus Astley Student Award: Open to 31/08 – Win £500 + free place at #IHBCBristolBath2027, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’ 28/08/2026
- LAST CHANCE – IHBC calls for sign-up to UK-wide survey of heritage workers who ‘use science and technology’: Led by RICHeS & Icon, to 31 August 28/08/2026
- Join IHBC’s Membership Assessors now and ‘Shape our Conservation Professionals of the future’, with CPD, status, compensation, and more as thanks and benefits 28/08/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: On Parliamentary engagement, as CMS Committee presents ‘Protecting Built Heritage’ 28/08/2026
- IHBC Director’s choice from HESPR’s £5.25M+ costed works this week: Heritage estate body seeks Conservation architect, to 09/09/2026 28/08/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: National Theatre building is turning 50 28/08/2026
- Welsh Government consults on ‘A vision for culture and sport in Wales…Developing a new culture and sport strategy…’ – to 18/12 28/08/2026
- County Council’s Network (CCN) responds on New National Planning Policy Framework 28/08/2026
- RTPI on NPPF: … puts sustainable communities on the right track.. 28/08/2026
- England’s Mayors given powers to green light developments 28/08/2026
- Government UK: Full steam ahead to fast-track more homes near stations 28/08/2026
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors, from Conservation Professionals to early career, in craft, landscape, architecture & more 25/08/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: Free entry to Listed Property Show, Malvern, 9-10 October … just email Charlie, or bring your IHBC business card! 25/08/2026
- LAST WEEK FOR IHBC’s 2026 Gus Astley Student Award: Open to 31/08 – Win £500 + free place at #IHBCBristolBath2027, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’ 25/08/2026
- IHBC members with benefits 1: ‘Lutyens & Liverpool’, 6-7 Nov, Lutyens Trust member rates for IHBC, with options for Full (£120), Day (£100), Talk, Walk, Student and more 25/08/2026
- IHBC calls for sign-up to UK-wide survey of heritage workers who ‘use science and technology’: Led by RICHeS & Icon, to 31 August 25/08/2026
- REGISTER INTEREST NOW: IHBC’s new ‘Leaders in Learning for Practice Network’ seeks ‘interest’ from leads in conservation-led education, training & learning programmes & courses 25/08/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ CPD Signpost: £6bn North Manchester regeneration risks leaving older residents feeling ‘culturally displaced’ 25/08/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’ double up! IHBC calls for member assessors while Building reports on ‘Plymouth – UK Design Capital shortlist’ 25/08/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: New exhibition explores the past, present and future of Edinburgh’s North Bridge 25/08/2026
- National Parks UK & partners: Joint statement on the historic environment of National Parks UK published 25/08/2026
- Government invests in young people with more opportunities close to home 25/08/2026
- Official Statistics: Community and Engagement Survey 2025/26: summary report 25/08/2026
Tag Archives: victorian
IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: Fight Fire with Fire, from the Vic Soc – ‘These are no longer isolated incidents’
image for illustration: Gkbediako, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Victorian Society (Vic Soc) has responded to fire at The Big Mill in Leek – William Sugden’s Grade II-listed silk mill.
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Victorian Society’s ‘Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026’ now out
image for illustration: Mausoleum at Y Faenol, Bangor by Meirion, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Victorian Society’s list of Victorian and Edwardian buildings at risk in 2026 has been published.
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Delivering restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: the costed proposals published
On 5 February 2026 Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal (R&R) Client Board published its report ‘Delivering restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: the costed proposals’.
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Tagged civic, government, heritage, parliament, victorian, Westminster
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Vic Soc ‘concerned’ at growing pattern: ‘Minister overrules expert advice on nationally important historic buildings’
The Victorian Society (Vic Soc) is ‘deeply concerned’ by a ‘growing pattern of the Secretary of State refusing to add important historic buildings to the National Heritage List for England, even when formally recommended to do so by Historic England’.
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Victorian engine found in attic of former Scots jail ‘one of three in world’
image for illustration: St Giles Royal Mile Edinburgh by Andraszy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A Victorian engine discovered in attic of former Scots jail is ‘one of three in world’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (HE) doorstep’: Time Capsule Victorian Shop in Littleport, Cambridgeshire Listed
Adams Heritage Centre in Littleport, Cambridgeshire – a remarkable surviving example of a Victorian commercial building – has been listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.
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Tagged building, commerce, conservation, expertise, heritage, ironmongers, shops, victorian
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Victorian Society publishes 2025 list of Top Ten Endangered Buildings
image for illustration: Derek Harper / Pavilion, Torquay – Commons Wiki Every year, The Victorian Society publishes a list of England and Wales’s top ten endangered buildings and now the most recent list for 2025 has been published with information on each … Continue reading
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