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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: wales
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Welsh council to appeal High Court quashing of Article 4s over ‘misleading’ officers’ report
Gwynedd Borough Council is to appeal a High Court decision which found that cabinet members who supported a direction on second homes and short-term holiday lets were ‘materially misled’, reports Aberdare Online.
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Tagged building, conservation, government, heritage, homes, planning, wales
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£214m new funding for Welsh communities to improve neighbourhoods and restore pride
Government’s £214 million Pride in Place funding is reaching every local authority in Wales.
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Tagged community, environment, funding, government, localauthority, wales
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Wales’ Commission for Tertiary Education and Research (‘Medr’) launches Strategic Plan 2025-2030
The Medr Strategic Plan sets out ambitions for a collaborative tertiary education and research sector, as part of its response to the Welsh Government’s strategic priorities for tertiary education and research.
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Welsh Planning Reforms to ‘…. speed up infrastructure decisions and create jobs..’, to make ‘… Wales the fastest country in the UK for determining planning applications’
Reforms aimed at making Wales the fastest country in the UK for determining planning applications, creating new jobs and driving economic growth have been unveiled.
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Tagged building, economy, environment, government, planning, reforms, wales
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Welsh Government policy and strategy ‘Priorities for culture’
The Welsh Government has published its policy and strategy ‘Priorities for culture’, indicating it’s priorities for arts, museums, libraries, archives and the historic environment sectors.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep: New council plans reveal extent of damage to collapsed Grade II listed hotel
image for illustration: The Corbett Arms Hotel in Tywyn, Gwynedd by Jeremy Bolwell, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Images from inside a Grade II listed hotel show the scale of its collapse, as a council looks to press ahead with … Continue reading
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Tagged building, conservation, demolition, expertise, heritage, wales
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Welsh Government outlines new priorities for culture: Integrated impact assessment
image for illustration: Fiona Newton The Welsh Government has published its Policy and Strategy Document on ‘Priorities for culture: An assessment on the impact of the priorities for culture’.
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Wales Consultation: A New Approach to Volunteering in Wales: Closing 30/05
The Welsh Government has issued a consultation survey seeking views from charities on volunteering, to 30 May.
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Tagged charity, consultation, policy, volunteering, wales
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Wales Consultation: A New Approach to Volunteering in Wales: Closing 30/05
The Welsh Government has issued a consultation survey seeking views from charities on volunteering, to 30 May.
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A decade of cuts: Wales risks being left behind in cultural and sporting achievement
Wales spends less on culture than almost all European nations, a Senedd Committee report has founds.
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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.7: Cadw Governance Review advances as Cadw & RCAHMW advance Working Group
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Following a Cadw Governance Review in 2023 recommending a review of the Cadw/RCAHMW relationship, and a 2024 government call ‘to look closely at… functions and responsibilities and identify synergies’, the new Working Group … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, government, heritage, nature, planning, skills, wales
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New era opens for Welsh historic environment legislation: Cabinet Statement welcomes ‘the most up-to-date historic environment legislation amongst the UK nations’
In a joint written statement Jack Sargeant MS, Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership, and Julie James MS, Counsel General and Minister for Delivery, announced that the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (‘the 2023 Act’) came into full effect … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, government, heritage, nature, planning, skills, wales
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IHBC ‘Management’ signpost: Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023: Comes into force on 4/11
Cadw has issued a reminder that ‘The Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023’ comes into force in November
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New degree apprenticeships announced to help build the Wales of the future
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The Welsh Government has teamed up with three universities to launch new degree apprenticeships in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying, and Real Estate.
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IHBC to be represented at Housing Cymru conference and exhibition 11 July 2024 – Charities etc. FREE!
IHBC Technical Panel Chair Professor John Edwards will share the stage with Jill Fairweather of Cadw and natural insulation product manufacturers to talk about the need for a more informed approach towards retrofit and insulation of traditional building.
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Tagged housing, insulation, retrofit, wales
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